Dirk wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >>- The upper 16 bit of the timer's 'flag' field are no longer >> given any special treatment, and also shouldn't be used. >> Only the flags defined in vdr.5 shall be used. >> > > > I am using a script I wrote to add and manage my timers automatically. > The script is using these upper 16 bits to identify which > timers have been added by the script and which have been > added or changed manually. This is done by setting an id > (magic number) in these upper 16 bits. Later, only timers > which have this id are touched (modified) by the script. > > The thing I like is the fact that (from vdr.5) "When a user > modifies an active timer, the upper 16 bits of this > unsigned 32 bit parameter will be explicitly set to 0." > Because of this, my script doesn't overwrite manual changes of > the timers. > > How can this be achieved in your new concept? > (Any positive answer is ok for me - it is no problem to change > my script.) I guess the logical thing to do then would be to clear the "aux" field in that case. Klaus
