Cannot edit recording metadata

[amlopezalonso@…]

Hi,

Selecting "change metadata" for a recording does nothing. The following message is issued:

E PlaybackBox?: Window 'editmetadata' is missing required elements

Regards, Antonio

[robertm]

Your theme is not up to date. Which one are you using?

[amlopezalonso@…]

Mythbuntu wide as it comes from the PPA repositories. Theme Selector reports 25.1 version. No newer version is available it seems.

[furti@…]

in fact it looks like some themes are broken since changeset:c704430299e176e3372dfc09dad3b0d0dcc1065d

I tried to fix that in Terra:

diff --git a/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml b/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml
index e65339a..0ae3834 100644
--- a/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml
+++ b/mythtv/themes/Terra/recordings-ui.xml
@@ -254,18 +254,6 @@
             </state>
         </statetype>
 
-<!--
-        <textarea name="filesize_str" from="basetextarea">
-            <area>360,647,200,30</area>
-            <align>right</align>
-        </textarea>
-
-        <textarea name="freereport" from="basetextarea">
-            <area>570,647,300,30</area>
-            <align>left</align>
-        </textarea>
--->
-
         <statetype name="ratingstate" from="baserating">
             <position>1193,435</position>
         </statetype>
@@ -622,12 +610,12 @@
         <shape name="fade" from="basefadebackground" />
 
         <imagetype name="backimg">
-            <position>877,78</position>
+            <area>650,78,635,515</area>
             <filename>popups/alt_menu_background.png</filename>
         </imagetype>
 
         <textarea name="label" from="basetextarea">
-            <area>889,93,378,125</area>
+            <area>662,93,615,125</area>
             <font>basemedium</font>
             <align>allcenter</align>
             <value>Edit Recording Metadata</value>
@@ -635,36 +623,67 @@
         </textarea>
 
         <textarea name="titlelabel" from="basetextarea">
-            <area>889,225,378,30</area>
+            <area>680,230,615,30</area>
             <value>Title</value>
-            <align>hcenter</align>
+            <align>left</align>
             <font>basemedium</font>
         </textarea>
 
-        <textedit name="title" from="baseshorttextedit">
-            <position>919,250</position>
+        <textedit name="title" from="basetextedit">
+            <position>825,230</position>
         </textedit>
 
-        <textarea name="subtitlelabel" from="titlelabel">
-            <position>889,305</position>
+        <textarea name="subtitlelabel" from="basetextarea">
+            <area>680,280,565,30</area>
             <value>Subtitle</value>
+            <align>left</align>
+            <font>basemedium</font>
         </textarea>
 
-        <textedit name="subtitle" from="baseshorttextedit">
-            <position>919,330</position>
+        <textedit name="subtitle" from="basetextedit">
+            <position>825,280</position>
         </textedit>
 
-        <textarea name="descriptionlabel" from="titlelabel">
-            <position>889,385</position>
+        <textarea name="descriptionlabel" from="basetextarea">
+            <area>680,330,565,30</area>
             <value>Description</value>
+            <align>left</align>
+            <font>basemedium</font>
         </textarea>
 
-        <textedit name="description" from="baseshortmultilinetextedit">
-            <position>919,415</position>
+
+        <textedit name="description" from="basetextedit">
+            <area>825,330,437,90</area>
+        </textedit>
+
+        <textarea name="inetreflabel" from="basetextarea">
+            <area>680,425,565,30</area>
+            <align>left</align>
+            <value>Inetref</value>
+            <font>basemedium</font>
+        </textarea>
+
+        <textedit name="inetref" from="basetextedit">
+            <position>825,425</position>
         </textedit>
 
+        <textarea name="seaslabel" from="basetextarea">
+            <area>680,475,565,30</area>
+            <align>left</align>
+            <value>Season/Epsiode</value>
+            <font>basemedium</font>
+        </textarea>
+
+        <spinbox name="season" from="basespinbox">
+            <position>897,475</position>
+        </spinbox>
+
+        <spinbox name="episode" from="basespinbox">
+            <position>1077,475</position>
+        </spinbox>
+
         <button name="ok" from="basebutton">
-            <position>968,515</position>
+            <position>853,520</position>
             <value>OK</value>
         </button>
     </window>

But there is still a problem: the text doesn´t wrap properly in multiline, and also in the title only the end is shown - I think almost everyone would prefer the beginning.

On the other hand I think it would be useful if we could get more information what exactly is missing:

diff --git a/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp b/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp
index dc76ecf..66962e9 100644
--- a/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp
+++ b/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp
@@ -5072,6 +5072,8 @@ RecMetadataEdit::RecMetadataEdit(MythScreenStack *lparent, ProgramInfo *pginfo)
 
 bool RecMetadataEdit::Create()
 {
+    int rv=0;
+
     if (!LoadWindowFromXML("recordings-ui.xml", "editmetadata", this))
         return false;
 
@@ -5083,13 +5085,45 @@ bool RecMetadataEdit::Create()
     m_episodeSpin = dynamic_cast<MythUISpinBox*>(GetChild("episode"));
     MythUIButton *okButton = dynamic_cast<MythUIButton*>(GetChild("ok"));
 
-    if (!m_titleEdit || !m_subtitleEdit || !m_inetrefEdit || !m_seasonSpin ||
-        !m_episodeSpin || !okButton)
+    if (!m_titleEdit)
     {
         LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, LOC +
-            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing required elements.");
-        return false;
+            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing 'title' element.");
+        rv=1;
+    }
+    if (!m_subtitleEdit)
+    {
+        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, LOC +
+            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing 'subtitle' element.");
+        rv=1;
     }
+    if (!m_inetrefEdit)
+    {
+        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, LOC +
+            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing 'inetref' element.");
+        rv=1;
+    }
+    if (!m_seasonSpin)
+    {
+        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, LOC +
+            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing 'season' element.");
+        rv=1;
+    }
+    if (!m_episodeSpin)
+    {
+        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, LOC +
+            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing 'epsisode' element.");
+        rv=1;
+    }
+    if (!okButton)
+    {
+        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_ERR, LOC +
+            "Window 'editmetadata' is missing 'ok' element.");
+        rv=1;
+    }
+
+    if (rv == 1 )
+        return false;
 
     m_titleEdit->SetText(m_progInfo->GetTitle());
     m_titleEdit->SetMaxLength(128);