Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Here's an updated version of the draft for eliminating the > 'summary' field of timers: > ... > - The new flag tfModified = 0x8000 will be _set_ whenever the > user modifies a timer via the "Edit timer" menu after the > timer has been created. After more consideration I don't like this any more. This flag would typically be set on a normal (i.e. plain vanilla) VDR (where users manage their timers through the "Edit timer" menu), making the flag numbers unnecessary large. Since I originally wanted to keep all auxiliary information confined to the 'aux' field (and the fact that a timer has been modified can only be of interest to external apps that use the 'aux' field), and just clearing the 'aux' field in such a case was objected to by Matthias, I tend to define that if the first character of the 'aux' field is a '?' (question mark), that character will be set to '!' (exclamation mark) if the timer was modified. As a mnemonic: "?..." asks whether the timer was modified, and "!..." means "Yes! The timer was modified". Of course we can use a different pair of characters if somebody comes up with a suggestion. Klaus
