Enhanced Web Admin

[normanr]

erik: your logic is sound.

I have to ask: did you recompile the source code to get a new gbweb.dll in the bin folder? With ASP.Net you can get away with editing .aspx files directly, but if you edit the .aspx.cs file then you have to recompile to update the application's .dll.

side muse: question is: should 'endMinutes - startMinutes' be checked to be non-zero, or should '(endMinutes - startMinutes) / GuideParams.minuteSlice' be checked. The latter is used directly as the column span value. As it happend minuteSlice is currently 1, so it doesn't matter, but when the admin interface is added it will be user adjustable.

[UncleJohnsBand]

normanr....I have another suggestion that I just discovered tonight....It would be great to have both the Play and Cancel button available in Manage Recordings when the show is actually recording....the only button currently avaialble is Play.

[erik]

Indeed I did NOT recompile because I did not know it had to be done.
(I am only used to interpreted perl and php).
I will get me the compiler.
Greetings!

[normanr]

UncleJohnsBand: That's partly because there's no space, and because it's safer that way. If you want to cancel a recording once it's started, then just hit the program's link to open up the details popup, then you can cancel it from there.

erik: if you have .net framework (which you must to run gb-pvr and view the site), then you have the compiler. You might want to look at something like SharpDevelop as an IDE to help wrap everything together.

[erik]

Thanks,

I will download the development environment. I found some good info in the wiki.

W.r.t. the web admin. I understand you can use the cancel button on a available recording to delete the recording from the disk. Would it be a suggestion to label that button with "delete" instead of "cancel". It confused me but I may not be very bright ;-)

[normanr]

yea, sounds like a good idea. I'm thinking of a style sheet based system which will allow ad-hoc creation of buttons and menu items. (read up on sliding windows if you're interested)

[normanr]

build 15:
- preview of how tabs are going to work, and how themes will be done. I plan to move all buttons etc, into template based style-sheets just like the 'Sliding Doors of CSS' menu.
- added erik's hide zero length fix.
- new logoff button for those who might need it
- new admin button that doesn't do anything yet :-)

P.S. the horrid flicker you experience in IE, is a Cassini bug that I've sent a fix to sub for.

[UncleJohnsBand]

UncleJohnsBand: That's partly because there's no space, and because it's safer that way. If you want to cancel a recording once it's started, then just hit the program's link to open up the details popup, then you can cancel it from there.

That will work but it isn't very intuitive. What about a single button with both options just less of a description. Look at the link below....same size button with both options.

[jsteele]

I think something got left out of the build, there are no tabs, buttons, etc., on the main screen and the text is in the browser default (Courier?) Something missing from the stylesheets?

[erik]

Thanks for fixing the zero length problem.
I found another thing that confuses the web guide.
If the EPG database contains the same program twice (don't know that is possible) the output gets mixed up just like with the zero length programs because the columnspan calculation looks at the start/end time of the current program being output.
A suggestion may be to check if the start time of a program is before the last end time and if so to shift the start time to the last end time, if you have a pure duplication the zero length check will automatically remove it. Otherwise only the non-common time of the second entry will get listed.