[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 28 March 2005 01:25 pm, David Engel wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:16:21AM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Monday 28 March 2005 11:10 am, mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org wrote:
> > > Added more support to prevent overlapping OSDs.  Things are mostly
> > > hard coded to only allow one OSD to be active at a time.  A better
> > > long term solution would be to extend the osd.xml format to allow
> > > theme designers to specify which OSDs can/can't be active together.
> >
> > But I rather liked how it would work with the older, more transparent OSD
> > themes if you hit the info button and then paused it. :(  It'd overlap
> > (with info being on top, due to the layering information in the theme),
> > then info would fade out nicely just leaving the pause stuff.  It took
> > quite a bit of time to get that working just right.
>
> I use a variation of the Isthmus OSD where status and program_info
> compter for the same screen area and allowing them both to be active
> looks ugly.
>
> Hence my comment about allowing this via osd.xml.  Pick a syntax to
> allow it, and I'll try to add it.

There's already stuff in there to draw in a specific order.  That should be 
enough, if the OSD theme is designed properly.  I'd rather think that you 
should be fixing the theme, instead of disallowing stuff to overlap like 
this.

Isaac