[mythtv] new mythweb

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Jul 23 11:35:17 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 22 July 2003 02:26 am, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > Also, the program popups don't work at _all_.  They're getting stuck on
> > constantly, they don't show up if browser is scrolled down a little, etc.
>
> ok, the position issue is fixed.  Dunno what to say about the "stuck on"
> part.  It's just plain old onmouseover/onmouseout stuff.  I've added
> some checking into this to make SURE that only one popup is shown at a
> time, but that's the best I know how to do.

They still don't position themselves properly here -- using CVS konq.  I'm not 
seeing the stuck on issue anymore, though.

> > The listings page seems to take a lot longer to load than the old version
> > -- several seconds difference, granted, it's displaying more data, but
> > still...
>
> ok, mouseovers are off by default.  Though I looked at page size on my
> machine.  It turns out that most of the "load time" is actually the
> browser rendering the offscreen elements.

Speed's better with em off, at least..  Though, may be nice to default to 
fewer timeslots on screen and make the font larger =)

> > I don't really like the scheduled recordings page.  Seems less functional
> > than the current mythweb one -- can't see what the type of recording a
> > program is, no way to delete the scheduled recording.  What you have now
> > works for a fix conflicts screen, but not for a list of scheduled
> > recordings, I'd think.
>
> question...  At the moment, I'm grabbing this info from the database.
> But this gets cumbersome as more and more recording types are added.  Is
> there a field in the data returned from the backend that will give me
> the recording type?

Ah, no, I don't think so.  Think everything that wants that info pulls it out 
of the db itself.

> I've also taken some time to get some better default colors.  There is
> probably still a bit of work that needs done on this, but at least
> they're tolerable now.  There's also a legend if you mouseover the word
> "mythtv" in the command bar under the big logo.

They do look a lot better, thanks =)

> ah.  Any chance you can point me to the file in the myth code that lists
> what's what?  I used to have it, but seem to have misplaced its name.

It's libs/libmythtv/programinfo.cpp/.h

> fixed.  Quite a lot fixed here, actually...
>
> Sorting is completely redone.  you are now given a sort history (ie. if
> you previously sorted by date, and click to sort by show name, identical
> shows are then sorted by date).  Been meaning to do that for awhile - it
> was easier than I thought it would be - gotta love php.
>
> I still need to go through and fix all of the short open tags to be
> long, and update for cvs, but other than that, I'm awaiting more bug
> reports, criticisms, fixes, etc...

Yeah, sorting works a lot better now, aside from file size =)  

I'll work on getting you set up with a CVS account later today.

Isaac


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