On 04.01.2010 16:09, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > 2010/1/4 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: >> On 04.01.2010 14:37, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >>> I was in search for a plug-in that could map alternative long names to >>> the supposedly current long name of a channel. I guess I didn't search >>> hard and long enough, but could not find one that would implement this >>> behaviour. The idea is, that when ever a channel list is called, it >>> will provide the alternative long name, but saves the original long >>> name in channels.conf. >>> >>> So I thought of implementing one my self. After reading the >>> PLUGINS.html from VDR-1.7.10, I thought it would be possible. I didn't >>> see any spoon feeding when it came to channels in the documentation, >>> so I thought I will have a look at channels.h and there seems to be a >>> member function called Name() in the tChannelID class. Would it be >>> wise then to copy the tChannelID class and replace the member function >>> Name()? >> tChannelID has no member function named Name(). >> Maybe you mean the cChannel class? >> I guess if you change the implementation of cChannel::Name(), then you >> could do what you want. > > Thanks for that. I must have scrolled back up and saw the wrong class, > I meant cChannel:Name(). > >>> Which global pointer will I have to deleted and assign to the new object? >> I don't understand this question. >> There is no "new object". >> You will have to patch the VDR source to implement this. > > The idea is that the plug-in would delete the current instance of > cChannel and instantiate a new cChannel instance in the place there > of. This without having to patch vdr to implement this feature. There > for the question about the (e.g. global) pointer that is pointing to > the original instance of cChannel. Is there a member function in the > plug-in class that can be called from VDR's main and hand over such a > pointer? There is an object of cChannel for each channel, and they are stored in a list. You can either patch VDR to modify cChannel::Name() so that it takes the original name as an index into some database of yours, or modify the names in your channels.conf and set "Setup/DVB/Update channels" to "PIDs only". Just curious: what's wrong with the original names? Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
