On 06.01.2010 13:05, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > 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. Where does the STB get that long name from? Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
