[mythtv] Viewing Time Monitor
Chad Vogelsong
cvogelsong at intellimation.cc
Mon Oct 6 11:13:29 EDT 2003
For building your GUI, you can use BASH shell scripts to create basic &
advanced GUI displays. There is also pyGTK & Glade. There is a good
beginner article here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6586
Also, if you can find issue #113 of Linux Journal (magazine), there is a
good article called:
"Scripting for X Productivity by Marco Fioretti
Save your carpal tunnels--automate GUI actions for productivity and
application testing."
For simple GUI applications, I find it hard to beat using a shell
script. If you can't find the magazine available, wait a little bit and
the article should appear online pretty soon.
Chad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett [mailto:tamntm2 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 11:41 PM
> To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv] Viewing Time Monitor
>
>
> I've written a bit of code that keeps track of how
> much time I spend watching MythTV. (I should write
> one that keeps track of how much time working on it...
> but that's another story.)
>
> It uses a new table to store the times I start
> watching recordings or live tv, and the times I end.
> There is some very basic logic to combine events that
> occur close enough together (according to a threshold
> in settings).
>
> I then have a perl script that scans the table and
> makes a little report on how much time we spent
> watching TV in the last 24 hours. I have a cron
> script that sends it to me each day.
>
> First, if there is any interest in this, I'd be glad
> to pass these things along. It could probably use
> some polishing by better hands if it were to go beyond
> my box, but it's a working first cut.
>
> Second, I could use some advice. I wrote everything
> to support multiple users, since the accountability
> factor goes way down if you can blame the large
> viewing times on someone else in your head. The
> trouble is, this is the first time I've done anything
> in QT, and I have only pidly experience writing GUI
> stuff. I can follow stuff around to some degree, but
> I'm not sure of the best way to do something new.
> What I need is a GUI way to find out who is watching
> when a show or live TV is started.
>
> Obviously, the more streamlined the better. I'm
> thinking that a popup could show up with each name
> displayed as a checkbox and and OK button to get on
> with it. Perhaps a number key could toggle each box,
> and another key could hit OK (to cut down on arrow key
> manip). This would only add two keystrokes to the
> viewing process as the cost of accountability (or
> three if two people are watching, etc).
>
> For my stuff to work, I just need a QStringList of
> users watching when a show is started. This list
> should be generated by a GUI and stuck somewhere
> accessible. My stuff comprises two functions in the
> TV class: ViewTimeLogStart(QStringList&) and
> ViewTimeLogStop(), as well as the calls in
> TV::HandleStateChange. There's really nothing in them that
> requires them to stay in TV though... it was just convenient
> since I got it working with calls in HandleStateChange.
> Perhaps someplace else is better???
>
> I don't really understand the entire state change path
> that makes everything run, but as best as I can
> figure, perhaps a popup should be spawned in
> TVMenuCallback(...) (mythfrontend/main.cpp). It could
> make the QStringList, stick it somewhere
> (MythContext?), get rid of itself, and then call the
> intended function (startTV() or startPlayback()). If
> it weren't for live TV, it seems like it would be much
> easier to modify the popup infrastructure already
> built in PlaybackBox.
>
> So my questions: What is required for me to build a
> popup dialog from scratch? I'm assuming the Myth
> widget set should make this pretty easy for someone
> who has a clue, but I'm not in that group myself.
> Which widgets should be used? How do I use them?
> Should the popup live in the global namespace of
> main.cpp? And is there a place that makes more sense
> to jam this popup into rather than TVMenuCallback()?
>
> Thanks for any help. I'd be thrilled to work with
> anyone GUI-savvy that is interested in this
> functionality.
>
> Brett
>
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