[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r9254 - in trunk by ijr

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Fri Mar 3 21:02:10 UTC 2006


On Friday 03 March 2006 15:51, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 15:07 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 03 March 2006 15:00, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> > > Hmm, it looks like I no longer get any text drawn anymore with
> > > this commit... No warnings in the logs either...
> >
> > Nope.  What video card & driver version?
>
> GeForce FX 5800  w/6629

Can you try a newer driver, just to see if that changes anything?

> >   Text is being treated a bit weirdly
> > (as an alpha-only texture, with color), and there might be issues with
> > that.
>
> Hmmm, alpha only texture?

Yeah, check out the gl painter (in particular, GetImageFromString()) .  It's 
doing some fun stuff to avoid re-rendering text. =)

> > For now, go into libs/libmythui/mythmainwindow.cpp and flip the comments
> > on what painter it creates the painter (lines 227 and 228).  It'll be
> > slow-ish, though.
>
> This works, and is a lot cleaner than my big revert solution :)
> Perhaps it should be a command line option for now?

It'll be a gui option eventually, just didn't want to mess with it yet.  I'll 
add a hidden setting later tonight, so the new command-line setting override 
stuff will be able to toggle it.

Isaac


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