[mythtv-users] Callsigns limited to 5 characters ?

ben ben at handcoder.com
Mon Apr 28 14:43:03 EDT 2003


Why not instead of making either option hard coded, make it themeable.
Add an option to the XML for OSD themes which determine how many
characters to display.  My OSD doesn't have room for more than 5
letters, so I like it trimmed down.

Ben

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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Callsigns limited to 5 characters ?


Ben Marchandise wrote:

>AFAIK there are no such callsigns here in
>Europe
>
No cryptic callsigns, no, but the stations tend to have names or abbr. 
which are short, though, e.g. ZDF, 3sat, arte, Pro 7, Sat.1, NL1, Kabel 
1 etc.

>arbitrary truncated on OSD. (There is space enough on
>OSD to display more that these 5 characters).
>
Yes, I disliked that as well, just remove that left() call (patch for 
anybody else wanting that) and you're set, I think.

>I wonder if this way of hardcoding the 5-character
>limit is really necessary, as you can always enter
>some short callsigns in the database, if you want to
>use this limit. Removing this limitation would allow
>us to have better looking long names on the OSD.
>What do you think ?
>
Completely agreed. Using "Kab 1" for "Kabel 1" seems silly and crippled,

if we have such a powerful machine behind it all.



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