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List:       kwintv
Subject:    Re: [Kwintv] Fwd: Re: qtvision channel numbering
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-30 10:06:50
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On July 28, 2002 15:01, Malte Starostik wrote:
> Subject: Re: qtvision channel numbering
> Date: Sunday 28 July 2002 19:11
> From: George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
> To: Malte Starostik <malte@kde.org>
>
> On July 28, 2002 13:03, Malte Starostik wrote:
> > channelstore.cpp:103 reads
> > »···channel->setNumber( _channels.last() ? _channels.last()->number() + 1
> > : 2 );
> > which causes the first channel to be numbered "2" instead of "1" when a
> > channel IO uses -1 for every channel's number. Is this a typo or expected
> > behaviour? (why start with 2?)
>
>    I put this in on purpose because TV starts with 2 in North America (well
> Canada and most of the US afaik anyways).  It's just a hack for now.  We
> have to come up with a proper solution eventually.  Feel free to provide
> one. :-)
>
> I see a very different understanding of the channels' "number" here. To me
> this was merely the index in the channel list, and the number one would
> type on a remote control, i.e. completely user-defined.
> Apparently it's merely intended as the real channel number, i.e. the number
> that maps to the frequency.
> I'm fine with that interpretation, but then an int can't work, since in
> some channel allocation schemes channel "numbers" aren't plain numbers,
> e.g. in Europe we have channels named "EXX" and "SXX" where XX are numbers.
> OTOH, I don't really see the use of displaying this rather arbitrary (only
> allocated according to which channel is free in a particular region) number
> in the channel list. The number assigned by the user, i.e. the ordering
> (s)he'd like to have on the remote control makes more sense IMHO.

    Well I think it's important to have the channel number line up exactly as 
they line up on a physical television unit so that listings work properly.  
Obviously a more robust solution is needed.

> Or did I get the whole thing wrong?
> If TV starts at 2 in America, what's on number 1? :-)

  Often... static.

-- 

George Staikos


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