Client errors if server not running

[jpsa]

If I start NextPVR on a client machine when the server Database Share is not available, I get a message 'Server database not found at: <xxx>' followed by a traceback dialog (tb1.txt). If I dismiss this, I then get another traceback dialog (tb2.txt) every time I move the mouse over the NextPVR window. This makes it tricky to give the right-click>Settings command to fix the wrongly set database share setting!

I eventually discovered that the trick was to move the mouse off the NextPVR window, use the keyboard to dismiss the traceback dialog, and then a right-click over the window banner (carefully avoiding letting the mouse stray onto the main window area) also offers the Settings command on its context menu!

A similar set of dialogs also occurs, even when the database share setting is correctly set, if the server machine is offline when NextPVR is started.

[2leftfeet]

It would be nice, IMO, if NPVR displayed a message (something like "Server not Ready" and maybe an operator option to proceed or cancel) that the DB was not available, then enter a wait state, polling the server until the DB came on line, then NPVR would resume automatically once the DB was online. The current message method is virtually unrecoverable, as jpsa states, unless NPVR is terminated and then re-started after the DB is available.