catmap = {}
    shown = None      # last selected entry in stream list, also indicator if notebook tab has been selected once / stream list of current category been displayed yet

    # gui + data
    streams = {}      # Station list dict, associates each genre to a list of stream rows
    gtk_list = None   # Gtk widget for station treeview
    gtk_cat = None    # Gtk widget for category columns
    _ls = None        # ListStore for station treeview
    _rowmap = None    # Preserve streams-datamap
    _pix_entry = None # ListStore entry that contains favicon

    # mapping of stream{} data into gtk treeview/treestore representation
    datamap = [
       # coltitle   width	[ datasrc key, type, renderer, attrs ]	[cellrenderer2], ...
       ["",		20,	["state",	str,  "pixbuf",	{}],	],
       ["Genre",	65,	['genre',	str,	"t",	{}],	],
       ["Station Title",275,	["title",	str,    "text",	{"strikethrough":11, "cell-background":12, "cell-background-set":13}],  ["favicon", gtk.gdk.Pixbuf, "pixbuf", {}], ],

        self.current = conf.state(self.module).get("current")
        self.display_categories()

        # update column names
        for field,title in list(self.titles.items()):
            self.update_datamap(field, title=title)
        






        # Initialize stations TreeView
        self.columns([])
        
        # add to main menu
        uikit.add_menu([parent.channelmenuitems], self.meta["title"], lambda w: parent.channel_switch_by_name(self.module) or 1)

    # Just wraps uikit.columns() to retain liststore, rowmap and pix_entry
    def columns(self, entries=None, pix_entry=False, typecast=0):
        self._ls, self._rowmap, self._pix_entry = uikit.columns(self.gtk_list, self.datamap, entries)

    # Statusbar stub (defers to parent/main window, if in GUI mode)
    def status(self, *args, **kw):
        if self.parent: self.parent.status(*args, **kw)
        else: log.INFO("status():", *v)

                self.status("Category parsed empty.")
                self.streams[category] = self.nothing_found
                log.INFO("Oooops, parser returned nothing for category " + category)
                
        # Update treeview/model (if category is still selected)
        if self.current == category:
            log.UI("load() → uikit.columns({}.streams[{}])".format(self.module, category), [inspect.stack()[x][3] for x in range(1,5)])
            uikit.do(self.columns, self.prepare(self.streams[category]))
            if y:
                uikit.do(self.gtk_list.scroll_to_point, 0, y + 1)   # scroll to previous position, +1 px, because
                # somehow Gtk.TreeView else stumbles over itself when scrolling to the same position the 2nd time

        # unset statusbar
        self.status()

        
    # store current streams data
    def save(self):
        conf.save("cache/" + self.module, self.streams, gz=1)


    # called occasionally while retrieving and parsing
    def update_streams_partially_done(self, entries):
        if gtk_ver == 3 and not conf.nothreads:
            pass
        else:  # kills Gtk3 too easily
            uikit.do(self.columns, entries)

        
    # finds differences in new/old streamlist, marks deleted with flag
    def deleted_streams(self, new, old):
        diff = []
        new = [row.get("url","http://example.com/") for row in new]
        for row in old: