TV Server Configuration GUI problem (1 Viewer)

[spiderwheels]

MediaPortal Version: 1.1 Beta (1.0.4.23491)
Windows Version: Windows XP 32-bit
CPU Type: AMD Athlon X2 250
Memory: 4Gb
Motherboard: Gigabyte
Video Card: ATI HD 4200
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 9.10

I am trying to use the TV Server configuration tool to setup channel combinations between my two tuners.

Unforunately after a bit of activity, such as making a channel combination or clicking through the list of channels on the left, the list boxes stop redrawing properly.

In fact I have just selected a channel in the left hand box and now the left hand box is empty while the right hand box is displaying part of an old popup message box but otherwise is empty.

Are these not standard .Net controls? Surely there shouldn't be any issues refreshing these controls.

Does anyone else have this issue?

I tried to take a snapshot but in doing so the messagebox artifact was lost:

Anyway, here's a link to an image showing the blank list boxes that should have something in them.

http://s785.photobucket.com/albums/yy138/spiderwheels/?action=view&current=untitled.jpg

I also omitted to report that the boxes still work. You can click in the left box and get a message that it is searching for similar channels

 

[altytesty]

you can attach images directly in posts so they will always be here and help others in the future

 

[spiderwheels]

I think I should have posted this in the bugs section

 

[Guzzi]

AW: TV Server Configuration GUI problem

Unforunately after a bit of activity, such as making a channel combination or clicking through the list of channels on the left, the list boxes stop redrawing properly.

In fact I have just selected a channel in the left hand box and now the left hand box is empty while the right hand box is displaying part of an old popup message box but otherwise is empty.

Are these not standard .Net controls? Surely there shouldn't be any issues refreshing these controls.

Does anyone else have this issue?

I can 100% confirm this behaviour, using latest SVN 8.1.2010 on XP-SP3.

 

[spiderwheels]

OK, there's good news and bad news.

The good news is that I've fixed it on my system.

The bad news is I'm not sure why..

I was wrong when I expected these to be standard .Net list controls. Unfortunately they are a custom control called MPListView. There's a big chunk of drag and drop code in the MPListView. I'm not entirely sure what it does yet..

Anyway, by changing the the MPListView controls back to normal ListView controls the two lists no longer empty themselves and I can use the dialog to configure my channels.

The downside is I'm not sure what functionality is lost by not using the MPListView and I'm not sure why the redraw bug exists in the first place.

 

[Guzzi]

AW: TV Server Configuration GUI problem

... can you provide the code? I just need to group 3 channels and could afterwards go back to original files ...

 

[spiderwheels]

I'll try and add SetupTv.exe as an attachment to this post

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re: TV Server Configuration GUI problem

I'll try and add SetupTv.exe as an attachment to this post

Thanks, worked perfectly! I finally was able to combine the channels I needed (and reverted to original setuptv).

Maybe, there should also be opened a bug-entry from the team to not forget about it (even when it's obviously not so widely used...).

 

[spiderwheels]

Re: AW: Re: TV Server Configuration GUI problem

I'll try and add SetupTv.exe as an attachment to this post

Thanks, worked perfectly! I finally was able to combine the channels I needed (and reverted to original setuptv).

Maybe, there should also be opened a bug-entry from the team to not forget about it (even when it's obviously not so widely used...).

Glad I could help.

Personally I think the whole channel configuration part of the setup is unwieldy. I'm contemplating better ways to do it. I may come up with a plugin that you can use instead as it can literally take hours to setup the combinations especially if you have two receivers with common channels that do not name them the same way.