Basically I ripped through other OSD's first and then grep'd everything
that looked like it might be XML related in the myth source ... made a
lit and just played pretty much. There might be an easier way but this
way was fun at least :-) ... the art part ... well I've always
been interested in playing with graphics tools I guess. I was a
contributing author to the GIMP for Linux Bible from IDG some years
back now and I was interested ever since.<br>
<br>
ttys,<br>
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Lonny<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack Perveiler</b> <<a href="mailto:perveilerj@yahoo.com">perveilerj@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>--- SpEnT <<a href="mailto:spentboy@gmail.com">spentboy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Hrmmm ... do you mean while watching a recorded program, bring up the OSD<br>> and have this information shown while you view it? I know in the list of
<br>> recorded programs, it lists the date it was recorded so that might be a<br>> little redundant unless of course someone asks you while you are watching it<br>> when it was recorded .... you'd have to stop watching it and look in the
<br>> list of recorded programs to see a date. The first aired I'm not sure how to<br>> do. I'll take a look and see what other data can be displayed, they're all<br>> predefined vairables from what I can tell, you just format where they are
<br>> and how they display in the OSD.<br>><br>> I'll keep playing around with it and see what I can put in. I know I had<br>> some issues with truncating long program descriptions and start/stop times.<br>> They'd either inconveniently cut something off or wrap in an ugly manner.
<br>> This doesn't meant I couldn't create another window in the screen somewhere<br>> that could display other info though (I don't think). I'm still pretty new<br>> to working with the OSD stuff but I'm willing to try anything :-) I'll play
<br>> around and see what I can come up with or what other data I can display<br>> without making the screen too crowded.<br>><br>> --<br>> Lonny<br>><br><br>I'd be happier with seeing when the original record date was. Just last night
<br>my wife asked me "is this the King of Queens for this week or last week?" If<br>both were reruns it'd be more clear to me to see the record date than the<br>original air date (which might be years ago).<br>
<br>Anyways, I had to go back to the list of recordings to see when it was recorded<br>and thought "gee, I wonder why the OSD (which said the TIME it was recorded)<br>didn't include the date as well...". Good timing :)
<br><br>On another note, where did you get all the info you needed to build your OSD?<br>>From the web somewhere? Somewhere in the mythtv docs? Or just by playing<br>around with other, existing OSDs? I'd be interested to know what the
<br>predefined variables are, are things different for widescreen modes, etc.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>--Jack<br><br><br><br><br>__________________________________<br>Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005<br><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com">
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