consider screens which haven't finished their initialization as shown. this fixes cutlist editor and movieplayer not visible.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/Screens/Screen.py b/lib/python/Screens/Screen.py
index 46b94fd4..a6106e1e 100644
--- a/lib/python/Screens/Screen.py
+++ b/lib/python/Screens/Screen.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class Screen(dict, HTMLSkin, GUISkin):
 		self.onHide = [ ]
 
 		self.execing = False
-		self.shown = False
+		self.shown = True
 
 		self.renderer = [ ]
 
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ class Screen(dict, HTMLSkin, GUISkin):
 	def setFocus(self, o):
 		self.instance.setFocus(o.instance)
 
-	def show(self):
-		if self.shown or not self.instance:
+	def show(self, force = False):
+		if (self.shown and not force) or not self.instance:
 			return
 		self.shown = True
 		self.instance.show()
diff --git a/mytest.py b/mytest.py
index 93c42142..452dd3d7 100644
--- a/mytest.py
+++ b/mytest.py
@@ -173,8 +173,12 @@ class Session:
 
 		# when execBegin opened a new dialog, don't bother showing the old one.
 		if c == self.current_dialog and do_show:
-			c.show()
-		
+			# this is the first show() for each screen.
+			# screen.shown is already true, because that resembles the state 
+			# ("not-yet-shown-but-will-be-shown") best, so c.show() would just do nothing.
+			# show(force=True) will show in any case.
+			c.show(force = True)
+
 	def execEnd(self, last=True):
 		assert self.in_exec
 		self.in_exec = False