[mythtv-users] MythVideo "play all in directory", how to quit?

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Jan 7 17:13:05 UTC 2010


Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/6/2010 7:50 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:
>> Basically as per the subject line.  If you queue up 10 videos, and
>> want to stop watching said videos after the second one is complete,
>> you have to hit "escape" (or exit) 8 times.  Each hit just queues the
>> next video.  I looked through the menus and couldn't find a "fully
>> quit" option, was I simply missing it, or is there a default keybind
>> to do this?
>>    
> 
> The problem is that when you exit a player manually, it has completed 
> running successfully.  There was no crash, there is no error code, so 
> how to do you know that the user exited with the intent of completely 
> exiting.  The code for child videos (defining a video to play at the end 
> of the first) suffers from the same issue.
> 
> Does the UI code allow for timed popups?  Could you throw up a simple 
> dialog box at the end of playback to 'press OK to quit', which times out 
> after a couple seconds?
> 
You do it the other way round. If the user presses "esc" then put up a dialog 
box: Ignore, Next video, Quit to menu.

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Mike Perkins



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