[mythtv-users] Enhancement request: Movie-debut years and original air dates in themes

[Yeechang Lee]

I wrote earlier:
> The ideal situation, which I suspect will take a small patch in
> addition to the theme patch I mentioned above, would be something like
> this pseudocode:

[...]

> Woman of the Year
> 51 TCM	     Thu Oct 19 2006, 11:14 pm - 01:16 am
> (3.5 stars, 1943) A New York sportswriter . . .

Actually, I'd totally forgotten that this functionality is already in
MythTV, as is evident if one uses the Program Listings or Program
Guide functionality:

51 TCM	     Thu Oct 19 2006, 11:14 pm - 01:16 am
(1943, 3.5 stars) A New York sportswriter . . .

However, I still can't figure out how to get this functionality to
work in Recorded Programs, Program Finder, or Scheduled
Recordings. There's nothing special about how the Program Listings
portion of ui.xml displays the stars; it's the same

        <value>%SUBTITLE|"|"
%%STARS%%DESCRIPTION%</value>

used everywhere else, including Recorded Programs. I know from
glancing through libs/libmythtv/programinfo.cpp that there's some
wizardry done to prepend the year to "year" in some cases, but I don't
know enough C++ to patch it myself so that this always happens.

-- 
Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US