SageTV Recordings - watched bar style?

[Archerkit]

Hi all. So after much hesitation I decided to upgrade from 2.2.8 & Cayars 17 to the latest and greatest. I stopped hesitating after realizing that we'll probably never see Cayars ported to V4.

Anyway I did a clean install, (copied wiz.bin back of course) just so I could clear out all of the junk that was in their before. I'm almost back to normal after doing Nielm's dynamic menu, DirMon & Showanalyzer, etc.

I always liked the Default Sage TV Recordings screen, and with Cayars the "watched bar" (I don't know what it's really called, but whatever shows you how much of a program you've watched) took up the full height of the program text. It was transparent and quickly let me see how much i had watched.

Now with V4 and the imports I have done, I only see a thin blue line to show the amount watched. Is there a way to get it as the background of the show title?

Hopefully you know what I'm talking about!

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Archerkit

Now with V4 and the imports I have done, I only see a thin blue line to show the amount watched. Is there a way to get it as the background of the show title?

If you want to make the change yourself in Studio, you can do a search for "Watched Bar" (case sensitive & w/o the quotes). Among the highlighted results should be a panel a little way below the VerticalEPGArea theme.

Edit the panel's properties & change its Fixed Height to 1.0.

- Andy

[Archerkit]

Wow, thanks!! My first venture into STV editing. I love the "instant feedback" so you can see what the changes are in real-time. You even made a sale on SageTV client, since I didn't want to mess with my precious production machine.

[owilsky]

Now I am confused. How do I get these thin watched bars in 4.1? Which plugin do I have to use?

[blade]

Originally Posted by owilsky

Now I am confused. How do I get these thin watched bars in 4.1? Which plugin do I have to use?

Enable the hidden extras or whatever they're called. Go to Detailed Settings--->Customize--->Malore Menu Options then enable watched bars.

Turning on the watched bars can corrupt the menus. Especially if you're using VMR9 and are viewing something like the list of recorded shows over the video. If you start seeing problems just turn it back off.