In stardard EPG, where in studio can I modify the short little vertical yellow bar?

[mkanet]

I'm trying to modify the length of the short little bar to extend all the way to the bottom of the EPG screen.

I tried looking for it in studio, but since things are already highlighted in yellow, I'm having a hard time finding it.

Thanks in advance!

[Opus4]

You can do a search for "CurrTime" -- that will find several widgets, but I think only 1 will be the shape widget. (Highlighting a shape doesn't outline its screen display.)

But, you can't just change the size of that shape to make it cover the entire grid... you'll have to get more creative than that. (I never thought about it nor looked into it, so I don't have any tips at the moment.)

- Andy

[MTuckman]

You could take a look at the EPG in the Meekell STV, which Crashless is currently maintaining.



It's one of the things I love about that STV, along with the player time bar!



Got to love the ability to share the mods!!!

[mkanet]

No worries, if it was as simple as changing a value or two, I would do it.

PS: MTuckman, I think my EPG looks better and provides much more information. But, I guess everyone has their own taste

[abasu2003]

Originally Posted by mkanet

No worries, if it was as simple as changing a value or two, I would do it.

PS: MTuckman, I think my EPG looks better and provides much more information. But, I guess everyone has their own taste

he meant, you could take a look at how they did it in that epg to figure out how to do it in yours. if you are unwilling i could take a look at it for you, but i bet you could figure it out on your own.

[Opus4]

I got curious... the Meekell STV is doing it the way I figured it would be. For the default STV: extend the top column header ("TimeCol" TableComponent) to cover the entire table height (1.0 Fixed Height instead of 0.1). Then, the header portion has to be displayed inside a panel of height 0.1, while only the CurrTime bar was left to fill the entire height -- all of this is stil under the "TimeCell" panel. Finally, to make the current time bar stay updated in the correct position, use "0,1000,0" as the animation property for the "TimeCell" panel -- that will update it every second, but you could do it less frequently.

This will make the yellow bar get shown behind the partially-transparent grid.

Extra credit: The "CurrTime" shape needs to have its properties fixed for using non-standard column durations. The value of 1800000 needs to be changed to work for other column duration settings.

- Andy