[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2256: show metadata banner on fullscreen visualisers

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 6:44 am, Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 03:38 +0000, MythTV wrote:
> >  Noticed that this only works for plugins that draw using Qt.  Could
> >  possibly open up a new child widget instead, and write text to that
> >  instead of the main plugin window.  Should get things working for the
> >  other vis types.
>
> It works for all the visualisers, MainVisual simply has a pixmap where
> it draws the info box and then bitblasts it on top of the pixmap the
> visualiser drew.

It doesn't work for goom, synaesthesia, or bumpscope, all of which use SDL and 
don't draw into pixmaps.  They also return false from their draw() functions, 
too, so that drawPixmap of the info_pixmap never gets called.

Isaac