Repeating Menu and Channel items (1 Viewer)

[null_pointer]

Hi All,

Is there a simple/easy way to turn off menu item and epg channel repeating?

Shaun

 

[Shurik]

As far as I understood from this forum, it's a some kind of bug when MP tries to fill in hardcoded number of items in the guide - like "there should be 10 items" or something along the lines..

 

[null_pointer]

I am not sure it is a bug but it is a pain

Is it a skin thing, can I edit the main skin file to stop the main menu page from looping through the menu items, I just want to show the menu items that I have set and not repeat them over and over. I have just enough menu items to scroll but want it to stop when it reaches the last menu item and not repeat the items all over again.

The EPG is a whole other issues I think but one that needs to be looked at. I am surprised that with the user base and the press this app is getting that it is quite rigid in its set up. I also want to disable the scheduler button on the TV page but can not work out how to do that either.

 

[null_pointer]

Ok, I have had a bit of a look at the source and to implement a set number of channels in the EPG page and remove the Vert Scroll bar it is only a few lines of code, from what I can tell at some point you could set the number of channels in the EPG but then it was turned into a dynamic calculation to fill the screen.

So my next question is would anyone be interested in this, are developers looking at this forum? Should I contact someone to see if they are interested in adding this as an option to the My TV Guide settings page as an option? Or should I add it and submit a code diff?

 

[Shurik]

Well, I'm not 100% sure.. I'm busy with 2 projects + work at the time and that's why I still didn't take a look at how to contribute to this project.. I would think that this should be purely MP code change, but lately I was reading other threads and somewhere in there I read that it actually skin, that defines the number of entries, color, etc. for the tv guide. Actually I installed "MCE 720p" skin last night and it prompted me as to how many lines in the guide I want.

 

[VdR]

I changed the number of channels shown in the EPG by changing the 'mytvguide.xml' skin file.

To do so, I changed the position and the height of the 'TVGUIDE Panel' and the position and height of the 'Channel template'. MP will display as many channels as fit in the panel considering the channel template height.

In my case I did this because I only have five channels and didn't want to see them repeated and because I wanted to use the extra available height to be able to increase the font size to improve legibility.

See attached 'mytvguide.xml' skin file from blue two as an example.

VdR

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[null_pointer]

Like your work around but it still scrolls when it get the the bottom.
What I am after is it stops at the last channel.

It looks like no one else is interested in this, oh well I will just hack together a private build that allows limiting the channel count.

 

[hexed]

It would also be nice if you could limit the number of items that appear in the list, but rather than scrolling at the bottom, the cursor jumped to the top one again...

 

[VdR]

I would be interested in that. Really cool would be if you could define this in the setup, scroll or jump the channel list when getting to the top or the bottom.

If you can hack a private build to do this, maybe you can suggest a code change for the next build?

VdR