[mythtv] Plugins window not covering the menus question

[florin baiduc]

On 4/29/06, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 8:10 am, florin baiduc wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Does anybody know (or can give me any ideeas) on how to make a
> > plugin's window only partially cover the mythfrontend's menu structure
> > (I want to see the menus while being inside the plugin).
> > Purpose is for in-car usage, where usually the usual path (press
> > escape to exit and then selec another plugin or menuitem is too long).
> > I am asking this question specially to the mythfrontend developers,
> > since they should know better the internals, but, as always, any
> > suggestion is good. I am totally lost in this problem.
>
> I don't believe you can do this and still receive input on the parts that
> aren't covered up.
>
> Isaac
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But the input still works!! Try it.
I know that you can still click (in MythMusic) on the menu (even if
it's not visible, being hidden by the player's window) and activate
other plugins. I tried with MythPhone.
Put MythPhone in your MythMusic's menu structure (by adding the
mythphone button to the music.xml), and after you open the player try
clicking where the phone's button used to be. It will switch from the
player (even if it's playing something) to the phone or whatever you
got there..
At least on my system this works...
Regards.
Florin