[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] AIA Patch 1.0.0

[Juergen Scherer <juergen.scherer@gmx.de>]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:24:04 +0200
Andreas Roedl <flood@flood-net.de> wrote:

You really should include what these patches do, I just had some hard
minutes ;) to find what NEWEDIT does...

But here is the original message:

Sergei Haller wrote:

>high!
>
>cMenuEditStrItem is an editable String like in file names of timers
>
>I wondered since longer time, why it is not that easy possible to write
>spaces: If I want to create a name like "a b", I have to do following:
>press Right   (begin editing)
>press Up      (make the first letter become 'a')
>press Right   (add second character and make it ' ')
>-- at this point it's not possible to press Right to add a third letter --
>press Up      (and make the second letter become 'a')
>press Right   (and add third letter)
>press 3xUp    (make the character become "b")
>press Left    (go back to second letter)
>press Down    (and make it ' ' again)
>press Ok      (and leave editing)
>
>below is a patch against plain vdr-1.0.0pre5, the second part of it
>changes this behaviour - now you're able to add as many spaces as you like
>at the end of a string (pressing Ok strips them anyway if the spaces stay
>at the end of the string)
>
>so the previous example ("a b") would require pressing
>press Right   (start editing)
>press Up      ("a")
>press 2xRight (go to third character)
>press 3xUp    ("b")
>press Ok      (end editing)
>
>
>the first part of the patch is a new "feature": you can press 1 or 3 while
>editing such a string. Pressing 1 inserts a space at current position
>pressing 3 removes the character at current position.
>
>One exaple where this is useful:
>you go to the shedule menu, press Red, the title of the programme is
>automatically put into the File field. But often you want to add a
>"StarTrek~" or "ST~" just "Movies~" in front of it. without the patch you
>have to type ST~ and then to retype whole name of the episode...
>(ok, you could just type it from the console, but the console is not
>available all the time)
>

Greetings,

Juergen