[mythtv-users] Success story and my own Tivo comparison (long and windy)

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 10 October 2003 05:47 am, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:36 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > This would be really nice; it's been discussed, and it's generally agreed
> > that it would be a nice thing to have.  However, the question of how to
> > implement it *well* looms large.  It really doesn't fit in with the 
current
> > hierarchical GUI architecture.  Personally, I think that to do it right 
the
> > entire Myth UI would have to be overhauled, if not completely scrapped and
> > re-done from scratch.  I don't know about you, but I don't have the time
> > for that large a task.
> 
> Actually, just launching some arbitrary task (guide, tv, playing music) 
> wouldn't be all that difficult -- just check out programs/mythfrontend/
> main.cpp, TVMenuCallback().  That's everything the main mythfrontend binary 
> can do, just would need to have the plugins register their various options 
> somehow, and you'd be able to talk to them as well.  

Well, as I'm sure you'll agree, simply launching/instantiating it is the easy 
part...

> 
> The biggest thing would really be adding code to allow you to exit out of 
the 
> currently running task, since I don't think it makes much sense to allow 
many 
> things to stack..

Exactly.  Some tasks you would want ended if you switched away from them, 
others (like playing music) you might want to continue, and possibly other 
you might want stopped/suspended but have their state saved.  It's issues 
like this that are the reason why this hasn't been done yet, neh?  If we're 
going to do it, we want to make sure we get it right.

-JAC