[mythtv-users] OSD Font?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Top-posting rearranged.

On Friday 24 October 2003 15:26, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> On October 24, 2003 12:32 am, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > > On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:05 pm, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > > > How can I add more fonts to the "OSD Font" combo box besides
> > > > FreeSans and FreeMono. I tried copying some ttf files to
> > > > /usr/share/mythtv but no go. It just doesn't pick up any of my
> > > > fonts in fontconfig.
> > >
> > > The list is hardcoded in
> > > programs/mythfrontend/globalsettings.cpp, I believe.
> >
> > I've got code in my cvs tree to make the OSD font lists get read in
> > from the directory, look for it in CVS tomorrow hopefully.
>
> Cool, thanks man. Is there any reason it can't use the fonts
> available in X like the rest of the GUI?

I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but that's never stopped 
me before... I believe the reason is that the OSD is not an X 
primitive, but instead is a rendered image that is multiplexed into the 
video output stream; hence it's not so simple to use X's font rendering 
mechanism.

But I could be wrong...

-JAC