[Mvpmc-devel] Viewport and New Date Format - Testers Wanted

[Darren H. <da...@dv...>]

It was suggested I post a link to the compiled dongle with my recent patches.  
Thare are three UI Viewport patches and one new date and duration formatting 
patch.

For details see the following on the mvpmc-devel list:
o "[PATCH] Viewport and New Date Format patches V2 (git-ified)"
o "[PATCH] Restrict MythTV Scheduling GUI to the confines of the user defined
   viewport"

The dongle with these 4 patches applied to the git tree as of Jan 25, 2008 is 
available for download here:

http://www.dvhart.com/~dvhart/mvpmc/dongle.bin.mvpmc-dvhart04

In summary the patches do the following:

o update the main menu and mythtv screens' widgets to place themselves 
relative to the user defined viewport.  This prevents widgets from getting 
placed off screen if you have a lot of overscan, or if you use the zoom 
feature on your widescreen tv to use the full width of the screen, without 
distorting the aspect ratio.

o adds command line options and settings entries for "Friendly Date Format" 
and "Duration in Minutes".  The will present dates and duration in the 
following formats:

Current Default:
        2007-12-07 20:59:00 - 22:01:00

With Patches:

Default (eliminates seconds):
        2007-12-07 20:59 - 22:01

12 Hour:
        2007-12-07 08:59 PM - 10:01 PM

friendly-date:
        Fri Dec 07 2007, 20:29 - 23:01 PM

duration-minutes:
        2007-12-07 20:59 (62 Min)

Friendly-date + 12 Hour:
        Fri Dec 07 2007, 08:59 PM - 10:01 PM

friendly-date + 12 Hour + duration-minutes:
        Fri Dec 07 2007, 08:59 PM (62 Min)
        My personal favorite for what it's worth ;)

I would appreciate any additional testing other users can provide so I can get 
these patches into the git repository.  I have been using the first three 
patches successfully for a month now, and have had good success with the most 
recent patch for the past few days.

Thanks for the time,


-- 
Darren Hart