2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 6a0846d5..aa07988d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1131,3 +1131,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Workaround for displaying still frames with the unpatched LinuxDVB driver
   (if anybody ever finds out why the unpatched driver doesn't display VDR's
   still frames, please let me know).
+- When executing a command from the "Commands" menu, the title of that command
+  is now immediately shown in the status line (followed by "...") to give the
+  user some feedback that the command is being executed, which is especially
+  important if this takes some time.
diff --git a/menu.c b/menu.c
index 1ffee602..8be090f7 100644
--- a/menu.c
+++ b/menu.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.c 1.173 2002/03/22 14:39:04 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.c 1.174 2002/03/23 15:10:20 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menu.h"
@@ -2231,6 +2231,11 @@ eOSState cMenuCommands::Execute(void)
 {
   cCommand *command = Commands.Get(Current());
   if (command) {
+     char *buffer = NULL;
+     asprintf(&buffer, "%s...", command->Title());
+     Interface->Status(buffer);
+     Interface->Flush();
+     delete buffer;
      const char *Result = command->Execute();
      if (Result)
         return AddSubMenu(new cMenuText(command->Title(), Result, fontFix));