[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-text2skin-1.3

Thomas Günther tom1 at toms-cafe.de
Tue Oct 6 23:52:22 CEST 2009 

Hello!

A new developer version of the VDR Text2skin plugin was just released:
http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/list_files/plg-text2skin

This is a *developer* version to test the new features. Most of the
existing skins should work without changes. Skins that use fonts other
than VDR's standard fonts "Osd", "Fix", and "Sml" need to be adapted
(see below for details).

Recent Changes:

- Added Italian language texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto / closes #134)
- Added brougs78-extensions (thanks to Andreas Brugger / references #39)
  - added tokens for the next 3 timers:
    CurrentEventsTitle[123], CurrentEventsStartDateTime[123],
    CurrentEventsStopDateTime[123], CurrentEventsChannelNumber[123],
    CurrentEventsChannelName[123], CurrentEventsIsRecording[123]
  - added audio- and video-tokens:
    PresentLanguageCode, PresentLanguageDescription, PresentVideoAR and
    implemented the missing code for the Language-token
  - added tokens for replay:
    ReplayName, ReplayDateTime, ReplayShortText, ReplayDescription,
    ReplayLanguageCode, ReplayLanguageDescription, ReplayVideoAR
  - additional recording-tokens:
    RecordingVideoAR, RecordingSize
  - added a reset for scrolling text (configurable)
  - added recording-tokens:
    RecordingLength, RecordingCuttedLength
  - added tokens:
    OsdWidth, OsdHeight
  - added the possibility to have a scrollbar in every menu - not fully
    implemented yet (to position in menu-lists is not necessarily
    correct, if there are more items with the same osd-text)
  - added a configuration option for showing the scrollbar in the menus
  - added token TimerConflicts using the service interface of the
    epgsearch plugin "Epgsearch-lastconflictinfo-v1.0"
  - added a test-feature to search for reruns of a program and add the
    information to the extended epg-info (trigger DEVELOPMENT_FEATURES).
    This uses a service interface of the epgsearch plugin
    "Epgsearch-searchresults-v1.0"
  - the extended epg-info and the recording-info are extended by
    AUX-Infos (configurable) there is also an option to strip known tags
  - the tab-widths are scaled for taking into account that different
    TT-Fonts have a different width than the default font from VDR
  - added tokens for signal-info:
    FrontendSTR, FrontendSNR, FrontendHasLock, FrontendHasSignal
  - added token PresentEventID for EPG-images
  - added tokens for recordings:
    RecordingFilename, RecordingPriority, RecordingLifetime
  - set EditableWidth. This is important for plugins like 'rotor' or
    'extrecmenu'
- Added chr13-optimizations (thanks to Christian Tusche / closes #39)
  - increased efficiency in drawing list items in the main menu
  - introduce relative Pos and Size of objects to given BasePos,
    BaseSize (used to draw list items)
  - increase skin file version to 1.1
  - the position of list items is interpreted relative to the "list"
    container when file version >= 1.1
  - when a position is specified for "block" elements, the position of
    all contained elements is interpreted relative to the container
    position
  - selective update of changed objects
    refresh can be controlled for individual objects by the attributes
    "refresh" and "changed"
    default behaviour is to redraw everything (compatible with old
    skins)
  - moved state tracking of marquee, blink, scroll from cText2SkinRender
    to cxObject
  - fixed use of Update.Lock() in render.h
  - new: dynamic width/height of objects
  - new: Option "bgColor" used for items "Text", "Marquee", and "Blink".
  - remember period to next timeout when doing a non-timeout refresh
    prevent occasional start/stop of marquee-text
- Corrected text in setup menu (timer-conflicts are now checked with
  epgsearch)
- Removed unnecessary yes/no texts from cMenuEditBoolItem calls
- Added translators info
- Corrected implementation of ReplayLanguageCode
- Updated FSF address in the license information
- Updated gettext language files
- Removed backward compatibility to VDR < 1.6.0 (closes #137)
- Fixed compile error if ImageMagick has double as Quantum type (closes
  #140)
- Use pkg-config to find compilation flags, libs etc for Imlib2.
- Fixed crash with FrontendHasLock and FrontendHasSignal (closes #147 -
  thanks to a.g.prosat at tochka.ru for reporting this)
- Replaced asprintf with cString::sprintf in GetFrontend*(), font
  loading.
- Removed useless code in loader.c
- Replace internal freetype font handling with VDR's font facilities.
  Skins that use fonts other than VDR's standard "Osd", "Fix", and "Sml"
  need to be adapted to use font names as understood by VDR's
  CreateFont() (Family:Style as of writing this) instead of filenames
  in their font attributes' names, to use '@' instead of ':' as the
  separator before sizes, and have fonts shipped with the skin
  installed and configured in fontconfig. Typically, install font files
  (if necessary) to a dir somewhere, run fc-cache(1) on the dir, replace
  for example font="SomeFont.ttf:22,85" with font="Some Font at 22,85" or
  font="SomeFontBold.ttf:22,85" with font="Some Font:Bold at 22,85" in the
  *.skin file.  Also, in case the shipped fonts are derivatives of some
  existing ones, they may need to be properly renamed to something so
  they will be used instead of the original if it happens to be
  installed. (closes #36)
- Compile internal image quantizing code only in Imlib2 builds.
- Add support for building with GraphicsMagick.
- Draw replay progress bar symmetrically
- Adapted to new recording format and variable frame rate (VDR >= 1.7.3
- closes #150)
- Updated Italian language texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto / closes
  #153)
- Fixed resetting of replay information (closes #156)
- Added ReplayMode "audiocd" (thanks to Björn Sturzrehm - closes #138)
- Fixed: Text scroller is not UTF-8 aware (closes #146)
- Fixed width and height of the selected parts of the replay progress
  bar, so that its fully compatible with the replay progress bar of the
  standard skins (closes #158)
- Fixed segmentation fault with token ChannelSource (closes #159 -
  thanks to a.g.prosat at tochka.ru for reporting this)
- Fixed spelling of refresh attribute: "allways" -> "always"
- Updated documentation to the state of plugin version 1.2
  (synchronized with
  http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Text2skin-skin_reference -
  references #142)
- Added documentation of new tokens introduced by brougs78-extensions
  (references #142)
- Added documentation of new attributes introduced by
  chr13-optimizations (references #142)
- Updated README.de
- Completed documentation of new tokens (closes #142)
- Added HD patch with new absolute modes: abs1280x720, abs1920x1080
  (thanks to gda at vdrportal)

Thanks a lot to all the contributors and translators!

Development site:
  http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-text2skin

Downloads:
  http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/list_files/plg-text2skin

Git-Web:
   http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/?p=vdr-plugin-text2skin.git

Anonymous Git-access:
   git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-text2skin.git

This is now intended to be a community maintained project!

Please report any bugs, ideas or feature requests to the project site
(no registration required for this!). If you want to contribute
patches, new features or whatever, post an issue or patch to the
projects issue tracker or request to join the project. I would happily
add everyone as a project member, who would like to contribute to the
project!

Tom

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