[opensource-dev] Possible glitch in TPV identification procedure

Thomas Shikami thomas.shikami at online.de
Wed May 5 15:50:21 PDT 2010


Zabb65 schrieb:
> Channel name is a persistent saved setting. Meaning if you log in 
> under a viewer that sets its channel in the saved settings file, but 
> does not use one of its own(settings file), the normal viewer will 
> continue to identify itself as that viewer. Until you remove the entry 
> yourself, by either clearing your settings files, or by hand, this 
> will always happen.
>
> I've notified LL about this problem once or twice before, but nothing 
> appears to have been done about it. Marking the channel entry as non 
> persistent would be enough to mitigate the problem caused here, in the 
> app_settings/settings.xml file.
>
> The reason this does not occur for the normal viewer, and spread to 
> TPV clients is because only settings that have been changed from their 
> defaults are written into the users settings.
So, the solution is on hand... modify app_settings/settings.xml in your 
TPV to match the LL_CHANNEL define, that makes the different channel 
name the default and then it won't be saved into user_settings.


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