[Kwintv] Small kwintv3 patch

[Rizsanyi Zsolt]

On Tuesday 15 October 2002 15:47, George Staikos wrote:
> On Tuesday October 15 2002 07:49, Rizsanyi Zsolt wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 October 2002 13:38, Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
> > > While looking through the sources, I found that if you enter 0 first,
> > > followed by a number, you'll get the channel with no delay.
> > >
> > > E.g. '02' for channel 2.
> >
> > Yes but that only works with one digit channel numbers.
> > Eg. for channel 15 you have no way to avoid the delay...
>
>   Ah this is a bug.  If you type 1 5  then it should go to 15 right away. 
> If you type 6 then it should delay and go to channel 6, even if there is no
> 60. 0 6 should go directly to 6.  However, if there is a channel 150, then
> there should be a delay after typing 1 5 to see if the user wants 150 or
> 15.  I think this is more like how real TVs work, right?

Real TVs do not have more than 100 channels :)
And different TVs work differently. I know two different TVs enough to 
describe them:
One can have max 29 channels and has buttons 0-9 and '1-' and '2-' (if you 
want ch 5 then press 5, if you want ch 17 then press '1-' and 7)
The other can have maybe max 100 channels. It only has buttons 0-9 and a 
button to switch configuration of entering channels a '-/--' button.
When the configuration is '-' then when you press a number the channel is set 
directly to that channel. In this mode you could not set a channel > 9.
When the configuration is '--'. Then you always have to enter two digits to 
select a channel. Thats the way you have described how the TV works.

But at that place always the '-' mode is used :) So it seems you are proposing 
an inferior method :)

Oh and I remember a TV which worked like always changing directly to the 
channel. So when you want to change to channel 17 you press 1 and change to 
ch 1 and then press 7 and you change to channel 17
Of course this could be annoying to some...

What I'm trying to say is that we should not follow closely how a TV works. We 
should do better :)

At least there should be modes of operation. One to work like your tv does, 
one to work like my :) And one to work how is it easy for me to use :), and 
as it is easy for you :)
I'm ok to left the default to work as your TV ;)))

Regards
Zsolt