[vdr] Re: OSD plugin - the solution

[Rikard Herlitz <rikard@twap.se>]

So what would be the best way to get complete control of a window?
Lets say I want to do a small game(like tetris) as a plugin, that I can 
access from the vdr-menu...

/Rikard


Andreas Schultz wrote:

>On Saturday 31 August 2002 12:01, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
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>>The "brutal" thing is to create a separate thread for this.
>>After all, as far as I understand you, all you want to do is to
>>display a special channel list. You shouldn't need to use a separate
>>thread for that. Couldn't you just use the OSD as it is right now
>>for the time being, and once I come up with a way to let a plugin
>>re-open the OSD you could use that feature.
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>I think it would be helpfull, if a plugin wouldn't needed to be concerned with 
>opening the OSD at all. VDR itself mostly access the OSD through Interface. 
>it might be best to rework cInterface and remove some of the implied 
>dependencies (hint: cOsd::Open()). Even merging cInterface and cOsd migth be 
>possible.
>The ultimate goal should IMHO be to remove the collision beetwen core vdr 
>functions and plugins when accessing the OSD (like an OSD displaying a 
>progress bar and VDR opening the main menu). The mentioned ability to reopen 
>the OSD would still leave that conflict unresolved
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>However, given that the current implementation works, it don't see to much 
>pressing needs to make such a change a top priority.
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>Andreas
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