Text2skin-plugin

Description

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The text2skin plugin is designed to load and interpret a set of files describing the layout of the On Screen Display and to make this "Skin" available to VDR via Setup -> OSD in the main menu. Of course it is possible to load more than one text-based skin this way and to choose between them while running VDR. All skins may be themeable (you can create your own color-theme) and translateable as the author of the skin wishes.

Hardware requirements

There are two versions of skins for the text2skin plugin

• "90kb" for standard OSD
• "1mb" for OSD of modded full featured cards

If a skin with two many colors for the OSD memory is used, one can end up in a non-readable or even not displayed OSD.

Software requirements

• nothing : only XPM images with no transparency/alpha channel
• ImageMagick : many different image formats (slower than imlib2)
• Imlib2 : many different image formats (see problems)

Both can be used together, but it's of no use.

Installation

See plugin installation

Problems

• Use of the imlib2 library together with the graphtft-plugin can lead to crashes.

Links

[1]	http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=text2skin	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html	Imlib2 Homepage
[3]	http://www.imagemagick.org	imagemagick Homepage
[4]	http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins	Skins for the text2skin plugin