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

David Engel gigem at comcast.net
Mon Mar 28 18:25:13 UTC 2005


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.

David
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David Engel
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