Avoiding occasional bad responsiveness to user interaction caused by assigning events to timers

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 5baa14c2..fdafdfd5 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2741,3 +2741,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Improved performance when paging through very long menu lists.
 - Removed cSchedule::GetEventNumber() and cSchedule::NumEvents(). There is now
   cSchedule::Events() that returns the list of events directly.
+- Avoiding occasional bad responsiveness to user interaction caused by assigning
+  events to timers.
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index ec03c21a..af95f377 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 1.179 2004/03/07 09:39:54 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 1.180 2004/03/14 14:25:02 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -549,10 +549,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
            PreviousChannel[PreviousChannelIndex ^= 1] = LastChannel;
         // Timers and Recordings:
         if (!Timers.BeingEdited()) {
-           static time_t LastSetEvents = 0;//XXX trigger by actual EPG data modification???
-           if (!Menu && time(NULL) - LastSetEvents > 5) {
-              Timers.SetEvents();
-              LastSetEvents = time(NULL);
+           // Assign events to timers:
+           if (time(NULL) - LastActivity > 10) {
+              static time_t LastSetEvents = 0;//XXX trigger by actual EPG data modification???
+              if (time(NULL) - LastSetEvents > 5) {
+                 Timers.SetEvents();
+                 LastSetEvents = time(NULL);
+                 }
               }
            time_t Now = time(NULL); // must do all following calls with the exact same time!
            // Process ongoing recordings: