Convert UI to use libmythui.

[Isaac Richards]

The frontend and plugins need to be rewritten to use MythUI.

[GreyFoxx]

One nice feature would be the ability to have a text area scroll from right to left when selected. For Example if you are scrolling through a tree list of filenames, and the name is larger than the display area have it scroll after a moment of being highlighted allowing us to see the full content. The amount of time to wait before scrolling starts could be configurable.

[anonymous]

It would be nice to be able to have exact x/y+wxh control over where each button in a buttongroup/menu is located on the screen.

For example if I only want a visiblerowlimit of 5 items, but I want to define the exact location information for each of the 5 "rows".

This would allow it to be very flexible when aligning to elements from a image/background/layer.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9156]) Things now use libmythui for the main window. Nothing is actually drawn with mythui yet.

Remove MythMainWindow from libmyth. Update the MythMainWindow class in libmythui for the changes since it was started. Rename/move a few files/classes in libmythui so they don't conflict with libmyth for now.

Note the install location for the headers changed (from <prefix>/mythui to <prefix>/mythtv/libmythui). You may want to delete the old installed headers.

A distclean may be needed to compile everything.

Refs #12.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9254]) The menu is now drawn by mythui. Random stuff might be broken. This will be slow (for now) for people without working hardware opengl accel. Still compatible with existing themes, though that probably won't last long.

Details, other than the obvious:

• Hash strings in the opengl painter with their font style.
• Make jumppoints work with mythui windows.
• Added some more compatability code to mythui to handle the old UI stuff.
• The themedmenu class still needs to broken out more into separate components.

Refs #12.

[mythdev@…]

Not sure if you are already want feedback in this very early stage of development, but I experienced the following.

On my epia box, using the OpenGL from the open via driver, the background of my menu is white. The rest of the pictures are OK and the fade-in/fade-out of the menu works perfectly and looks really, really great! Maybe my experience can help you?

[joshebel@…]

My Intel i810/815 videocard in 16 bit 800x600 using Xorg GLX takes 10-15 seconds to fade in or out. The CPU is 100% in mythfrontend during menu changes. It would be wonderful to have a configure option to disable opengl eye candy on the builds.

-joshua ebel

[florinbaiduc@…]

Perhaps you already noticed this but... The arrows are not getting detected by the screen->GetChildAt(p) call in MythMainWindow. This is strange, because they are declared as chidren of a MythScreenType, and being a MythUIStateType they already have the area and position declared within a MainWindow.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9561]) First step of making the menu not manually draw itself. Qt painting should be faster, now, as it no longer redraws the entire screen every update.

Refs #12.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9562]) Get rid of the full-screen redraw flicker when using the Qt painter.

Refs #12.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9567]) Fix known issues from [9566].

Refs #12.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9574]) Mouse support in the menus. Click + drag left to emulate escape.

Refs #12.

[anonymous]

you probably didn't want to know this yet -

the backwards compatibility mode now seems broken

• ie when USeOpenGLPainter is set as 0 the menu entries cannot be seen - still work - you just have to have a good memory. :)

[mythdev@…]

I also saw this problem with the Retro theme. The MythCenter theme works fine. So it has something to do with specific themes. Tested it with the UseOpenGLPainter=0

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9644]) Got enough feedback on where the opengl stuff works/doesn't. Removed the temporary UseOpenGLPainter override. Added new setting to the Appearance page to select which painter to use, and default it back to Qt.

Refs #12.

[awk@…]

It would appear that you can't 'mix n match' the QWidget and QGLWidget code on Mac OS X. If you insantiate a QGLWidget (or subclass) you need to use the QGLPainter, a QPainter will not draw correctly to the screen. Given the Mac OS X OpenGL architecture this isn't surprising. Is the 'grand plan' here to remove the QPainter approach entirely in the future ? Or to leave it in place for those systems without sufficient OpenGL performance ?

If the plan is to allow both changes I think MythMainWindow will need some refactoring and changes in inheritance so that either there are two subclasses one for GL one for non-GL or an alternative approach with a single MythMainWindow with a private class member to handle the different widgets. I'm happy to help with the work if I can - but I think this is probably beyond the realm of a straightforward patch 8-)

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9949]) Finally have a new XML parsing framework for mythui that I'm happy with. Mostly checking in so I don't change my mind again.

On a per widget type basis, parsing is significantly simpler than the old UI code, no more redundant code.

New framework allows for widget trees to be pre-defined, and then have specific overrides when actually used. This will allow defining something like the selection tree in the 'watch recordings' screen once, and using it with a single line of code in other screens (ie., mythmusic, game, video, etc all currently redefine that exact same widget in each .xml file). Should lead to much smaller/easier to create/customize themes, as well as more consistant feel over the entire theme.

Tnis isn't live or even hooked up to anything yet. Only have fonts/images/text types done so far.

Refs #12.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9956]) Flesh out the rest of the UI types for parsing/inheriting, and make it all actually work.

Refs #12.

[Isaac Richards]

(In [9959]) Themes can now define a 'backgroundwindow' element that are more complex than just a single image, and will be present on all screens using mythui. See GANT for an example.

Other changes: fix theme reloading, close small font memory leak, allow images to request to be full-screen, themes can override stuff in base.xml if so desired, add alpha/pulse controls to the generic item type..

Refs #12.

[Dibblah]

Please don't make changes to tickets anonymously for no good reason.

[daniel at file-factor dot de]

Did you ever consider porting this to Qt4?
Qt4 has a new painting framework called ​Arthur which has a software rendering backend and an opengl backend. You would get the opengl acceleration "for free".
Since version 4.2 Qt also has great support for SVG and has a native ​SVG renderer which allows to load SVGs (or parts of them) and render them into a QWidget or QPixmap.

Perhaps this would be a good way to save some development-time and get nice new possibilities.

[daniel at file-factory dot de]

Sorry, my mail adress was wrong.

[danielk]

(In [14944]) Refs #12. Splits non-settings out of settings.h.

Settings, setting groups, setting dialogs, and setting storage clases are split out into separate headers and cpp's in this patch. settings.h still includes all of them to minimize disruptions to other files.

This is basically so I can start working on porting MythTV settings to mythui while keeping the includes clean of Qt widget headers. this doesn't require recompiling any plugins or relinking any of MythTV because the classes themselves are unchanged.

[stuartm]

(In [15153]) Add keypress handling and a button pressed signal to mythuibutton. Fix a text justification bug and call SetupPlacement() when loading background images to ensure that the text rect is the correct size.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15154]) Add keypress handling and some nullpointer checks to mythlistbutton.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15594]) Migrates mythcontrols over to mythui. I've preserved the look of the plugin, only changing the theme to use the new xml format.

The popup dialogs haven't been switched yet, hope to have those done tonight.

Please test and report any bugs, there was a lot of UI specific behaviour in mythcontrols and I may have missed something. The -wide theme will be committed shortly.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15595]) Wide theme for mythui based mythcontrols. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15605]) Fixes the final bug in MythUIButton::CopyFrom().

I'm not entirely happy with the solution, so if I can see a better fix I may change it.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15606]) Don't ignore <value> if we already have m_Message, I can't see the advantage of this check and it prevents textarea inheritance from working correctly. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15623]) Fixes a drawing bug in mythui with the qt painter.If the 'dirty' region exceeds the screen area then the QT painter would simply not draw.

Fix is simply to crop any areas of the dirty region which extend beyond the screen area.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15664]) Reverse iteration in GetChildAt() so that we get the widget at the top of the draw order. This means that mouse clicks go to the widget foremost on the page, rather than any which happen to be behind it. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [15672]) Remove the mythuitest program from trunk as it no longer serves a purpose and keeping it up to date with libmythui changes isn't worthwhile. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16493]) Add base definitions for mythuibutton and mythuitext to base.xml. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16525]) In order to maintain consistency with the rest of mythui, change the attribute for font inheritance from 'base' to 'from'. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16526]) Move parsing of alignment into the base class, xmlparsebase and allow combining of vertical and horizontal values.

<align>{horizontal},{vertical}</align>

e.g. <align>left, bottom</align>

<align>right,vcenter</align>

The older form of <align>center</align>, <align>left</align> is still supported.

The behaviour of combining two vertical or two horizontal values is undefined. parseAlignment() may be modified to be stricter about the order and nature of values it accepts.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16529]) Emit itemSelected() on the current list item when the list receives focus.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16540]) Change the way we handle mouse click events for MythListButton, I never liked the original method much and this is only a marginal improvement, but it works much better and doesn't require large rewrites.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16549]) Ports mythflix to mythui.

Refs #12

Please report issues to the dev list. Only the base theme has been converted but a quick check tells me that none of the distributed themes have themed mythflix yet.

[stuartm]

(In [16556]) Make button dimension methods public so that we can scale images to match them. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16560]) Have mythflix textareas inherit from basetextarea. N.B. For those with Right to Left languages this means that you only have to change a single line in base.xml for all pages to use right aligned text. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16567]) Allow alignment of the foreground image in a button. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16568]) Change <textflags> to <align>, it's easier for themers to understand and means all widgets use the same syntax for text alignment.

<textflags> is still recognised, but will be removed after all existing references are fixed.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16572]) Complete button image alignment support and change the method used to handle mythlistbutton mouse click to something more reliable. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16573]) Clicking with a mouse on the up/down scroll arrows of mythlistbutton now moves within the list.

Changed the behaviour of SetItemCurrent() to match that of MoveToNamedPosition().

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16588]) Force an update of the listbutton when SetChecked() or SetImage() is called on a buttonitem. This achieves the same as [16546] without triggering segfaults in popup dialogues. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16594]) Move the button check image forward in the draw order so that it may be drawn over the button image. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16595]) Add a method to MythListButton to mark all button items as checked, halfchecked, fullchecked etc. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16596]) Change MythUIImage::Load() to return a boolean indicating success or failure. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16703]) Let MythUIButton accept mouse clicks. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16817]) Supporting text clipping in the opengl painter to prevent text being drawn outside it's parent uitype, needed for things like scrolling text and the text entry widget. Isaac plans to add proper clipping support to the GL painter in the future, this is a workaround until that happens. refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16826]) Add a text entry/edit widget to mythui. Not feature complete but functional. Features themeable background and cursor images. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16833]) Add filter option to MythUITextEdit so that we can decide to only allow numerical input, or block non alphanumeric characters etc. I also plan to allow custom regexps to be defined for filtering, but regexps are less likely to be UTF8/Unicode compatible.

Changes to allow textedit inheritance to work.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16839]) Add a method for retrieving a named stack and create a new stack for popups. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16842]) Replace the mythflix queue selection dialog with a mythui one.

I've tested this as best I can, but I'd appreciate anyone who uses mythflix with mulitple queues checking that nothing is broken.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16860]) If a screentype's area is less than that of UIScreenRect then it's not fullscreen. Gives themers the choice of whether screens are full screen or not. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16872]) Switch keygrab dialogue to mythui and replace Q3Support methods for QKeyEvent with their QT4 equivalents. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16915]) Port mythnews to mythui. This is unfinished, but allows the basic functionality to work. Editing sites from the main screen doesn't work, the busy dialogs are disabled and a QT4 database related bug prevents configured sites from being marked as selected or removed.

8 files changed, 670 insertions(+), 1469 deletions(-)

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16916]) Default-wide theme updates for mythui plugins. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16928]) Adds a new screen to MythNews for the site name/url editing replacing the pre-mythui popup. Not functional yet, changes won't be saved and movement between textedit widgets hasn't be implemented. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16954]) Don't handle Left/Right keypresses if we are at the extreme left or right of the field, means we can now move between textedit widgets.

Added a method to return the textedit's contents, somehow this got left out of my original commit even though it appeared in the original patches.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16955]) Adds an exiting signal to mythscreentype which can be used to trigger a reload of page contents etc after editing metadata in a child screen. This should have been committed before [16953] as that commit depends on it. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [16996]) Add GetPosition() to mythuitype to complement the SetPosition() method. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17013]) Allow screens to be popped off the stack without deleting them.

Add method to pop a stack off the stacklist for temporary stacks.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17015]) Keep track of check state and add a GetCheckState() method. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17021]) Handle some common keypress actions in the screentype base class. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17041]) Port mythweather to mythui. Refs #12

The main screen and screen setup work which is enough to use or setup mythweather. The global setup and source setup don't yet, I should have those done in a day or two.

Diffstat for those interested in the code and theme reductions: 18 files changed, 1790 insertions(+), 3362 deletions(-)

[stuartm]

(In [17076]) Break button padding into X/Y components so that they can be given different values since buttons are rarely square. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17077]) Break the listbutton margin into X/Y components. Library version bump, distclean of plugins required. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17123]) Adds an image reflection effect to MythUI. This is more proof of concept than the final implementation, I'll be optimising and tweaking it.

See ​http://miffteevee.co.uk/imagebin/mythui_imagereflection3.png for examples of reflection effects.

The following element belonging to <imagetype> defines the look

<reflection axis="vertical" shear="50" scale="50" length="50" />

Axis - the reflection axis {vertical,horizontal} Shear - Percentage shear of the reflection shear, affects the angle of the reflection Scale - Percentage to scale down the reflection, affects the angle between the image and the 'surface' Length - Percentage of image to retain in the reflection, affects the length of the reflection

Image transformations will be added shortly as well, allowing images to be sheared, rotated etc

N.B. It's not really intended that it be used for static theme images, reflection effects for those images would be better 'hardcoded' using your favourite graphics editor. This is intended to be used with dynamic content, album art, movie posters, preview images and gallery images.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17174]) Adds what I'm calling 'Centre Hold' scrolling to mythlistbutton. This is where the selected item remains static in the centre of the visible list area and the list items move instead. The behaviour is similar to that of the category list in "Watch Recordings".

Adds a new element to the listbutton, <scrollstyle> which accepts values of "free", the current behaviour and "center", the new behaviour. The intention is to allow further styles to be added later.

This was tested with the vertical layout and the horizontal layout should work too, but it doesn't yet work with the grid layout and fixing that isn't a high priority at the moment. There are several reasons for adding this option now, but the one which will interest most people is to take us one step closer to a "cover flow" effect.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17287]) Adds a spinbox widget to mythui. This is a functional placeholder until I get the time to write a more efficient version. Like the final version this inherits from mythlistbutton and adds the ability to specify an arbitrary range of numerical values, unlike the final version if you define 100 possible values then 100 items are put into the list instead of determining the next/prev values only when they are needed.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17413]) Add a checkbox widget which inherits from mythuibutton. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17460]) * Add recursion option to GetChild and change default to no-recursion.

• Remove the mythcontext header
• Parse <area> tags in the base type

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17461]) Allow MythUIStatetype support multiple widgets per state by using mythuigroup.

Modifies the behaviour of ParseChildren so that it no longer returns the last parsed uitype, since this behaviour is no longer required or especially useful.

Removes the mythcontext header from mythuistatetype.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17480]) A far more versatile and capable version of mythlistbutton, renamed to mythuibuttonlist. I'll leave the old version in place until the new one is complete and the existing uses of mythlistbutton have been migrated.

This changes the XML for a buttonlist significantly and updated examples will be available in the Trac wiki soon.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [17698]) Progress bar widget for mythui.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

Re-written myththemedmenu, incomplete but functional

[stuartm]

(In [18389]) Merge MythUI port of MythVideo back to trunk.

I expect there to be some problems, this was more than a simple conversion, a lot of changes were made to the UI and refactoring was done, 6000 lines of code and theme xml were eliminated. I would not update if MythVideo is mission-critical to you, give it a couple of weeks for the bugs to be shaken out first.

This change may break some themes.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18551]) Port Manual Schedule screen to mythui. The hour/day rollover feature is currently disabled, it will be re-enabled later this week once I've adding wrapping support/signals to MythUIButtonList. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18614]) Cleanup MythThemedMenu removing unused code which was accidently re-added to my patch at some point. Requires a plugin rebuild. Could an LCD user please check to see that the menu still works? Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18746]) Add font 'states' to mythuitext and mythuibuttonlist, allows a different font colour/style etc to be defined for code defined states. e.g. Status text can be green when everything is ok and red when an error has occured.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18747]) Port the Upcoming Recordings screen to MythUI. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18801]) Port Channel Recording Priorities screen to mythui. Refs #12. Additionally made a small change to the viewscheduled screen, since it's never going to be named any different then the name doesn't have to be passed as an argument to the constructor.

[stuartm]

(In [18822]) Re-write of MythUICheckBox. It's no longer based on MythUIButton and follows the same xml format of widgets such as MythUIButtonList, MythUITextEdit and MythUIProgressBar. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18842]) Port the Custom Priority screen to MythUI. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [18865]) Ports Status screen to mythui. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [19603]) Ports the Watch Recordings screen (playbackbox) to mythui. This is a large screen and a substantial change (with 1500 fewer lines) and due too the number of popups and possible configurations of this screen there may be some overlooked problems.

The new theme is deliberately styled on the old screen so not to confuse anyone, with minimal additions to demo some of the new features. A more adventurous demo theme will be made available on the -dev list for those that want to see just what is now possible.

Known issues - Help popup is currently disabled. Preview video code is removed, to be replaced with a mythui video widget in the near future.

Please report bugs to the dev list for the moment, at least until things settle down.

Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [19785]) Port the music miniplayer to mythui. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [19833]) Refs #12. File browsing and selection dialog for mythui. Designed to replace various file/directory/image selection screens found in the plugins and also allow paths in the settings to be more easily selected. Supports name and type filtering, image previews etc. N.B. Functional but not feature complete.

[Matthew Wire <devel@…>]

Convert protocol and library mismatch dialogs to mythui

[Matthew Wire <devel@…>]

Convert deletechannels menu, importicons menu and allow cancel of icon import process

[stuartm]

(In [20046]) Add an option to convert a colour image to greyscale in mythuiimage and mythimage. Refs #12

[Matthew Wire <devel@…>]

Updated patch. Removes icon import button and delete button and replaces them with menu functionality. See ​http://www.mjwconsult.co.uk/myth/channeleditor.png

[stuartm]

(In [20193]) Merge [19680] through [19785] from the mythmusic-mythui branch back to trunk. This includes some QT4 fixes and the port of the music miniplayer. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [20200]) Merge [19796] and [19798] from the mythmusic-mythui branch back to trunk. Ports the CD ripping and file import screens to mythui. Includes some changes which were in the branch. Refs #12

[Matthew Wire <devel@…>]

Convert transport list editor to mythui

[Matthew Wire <devel@…>]

Fixes single icon download. Fixes showing of search dialog.

[Matthew Wire <devel@…>]

Stuart, updated channeleditor patch applied which converts it all to mythui and fixes a number of bugs with the icon import in trunk such as not being able to exit whilst import is in progress.

The transporteditor patch is invalid for now - I have a much bigger patch which converts all the capturecard related dialogs which I need to get into shape for a ticket.

[paulh]

convert guide grid to mythui

[paulh]

convert guide grid to mythui

[stuartm]

(In [20967]) Abandon the mythmusic-mythui branch. I've decided it's going to be easier to start from scratch with a re-write of the primary screens and playlist code for 0.23. Those screens which could be easily ported to mythui are already in trunk. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [21635]) Restructure some frontend screens around a base classes giving access to common schedule UI related functions that are currently in RecordingInfo. For now this duplicates a small amount of code in libmythtv until the schedule editor is ported. The schedule option menus have been ported to mythui and program details moved to mythfrontend. One of the long term goals for mythui is to get the UI elements out of libmythtv and this starts to untangle things. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [21754]) Terra is now the default theme. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [21831]) Port the schedule editor to mythui. This is the first commit of several, I'm breaking up the changes to make it easier to manage and make it easier to isolate and change which introduces a bug.There is no default-wide theme yet, Robert M may commit that later tonight. This leaves most of the old code in place and several screens will still use the old schedule editor so please don't open tickets for that. Later commits will add additional theme related options to the editor, port the other locations to use the new editor/RecordingRule and finally remove all the old/duplicate code from libmythtv. Refs #12

[stuartm]

(In [21853]) Replace the remaining instances of ScheduledRecording with RecordingRule and remove the old schedule editor, program lister, program details and previous list from libmythtv. Viewscheddiff remains the only unported main screen now and the only significant bit of UI code in libmythtv. Refs #12