[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-users] Pre-scaling theme images

[Neil Whelchel]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 07:10, Thomas B=F6rkel wrote:
> > HI!
> >
> > Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > > It appears that every time you run mythfrontend *at a different
> > > resolution*, it removes the 'stale' themecache and generates one
> > > for the current resolution.  For instance, I normally run at
> > > 800x600, and I *never* get the "generating scaled-images..."
> > > progress bar.  Today I ssh-ed in from work and ran with a remote
> > > 1280x1024 display.  I saw the progress bar (as expected), but I
> > > also saw a terminal message "removing stale cache blue.800.600".  I
> > > checked, and sure enough, I now have a blue.1280.1024 cache and NO
> > > blue.800.600 cache.  I fully expect that the next time I fire up my
> > > main frontend I will see the progress bar.
> > >
> > > Perhaps it would be a good idea to have myth *not* delete a
> > > themecache just because it's not the current resolution?
> >
> > I write protect the cache dir and sub dirs after they have been
> > created.
>
> Copying the -dev list on this.  See the whole thread here:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/34198
>
> Hmmm, not a bad idea, but won't that cause problems as themes get
> updated and images get added/removed/changed ?  In any event it would
> be nice for the code to do the right thing.
>
> (to the -dev list):  is there a good reason for this behavior?  If not,
> I'll look into patching it to not delete the theme cache, or at least
> maybe to come up with a better way of determining if a theme cache is
> truly 'stale'.
>
> -JAC
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Simple..
Find the latest file modification date in the selected theme directory, if
it is newer than the cached image, replace it, if not skip it.
-Neil-