2010/1/6 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: > On 05.01.2010 09:40, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >> 2010/1/4 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxx>: >>> 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? >> >> The long names and the short names are the same. > > And what's wrong with that? If you have a lot of channels, where the Long names are reduced to short (acronym) names. Then you might run into the problem where you see a few channels with the same short name but with different IDs. I can't always remember what the short name used to stand for after I visit the channel in 6 months. The STB will show the correct long name. > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
