[vdr] Re: Setting color for menu items

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:

>On 01 Jul 2004 Sascha Volkenandt <lists@magoa.net> wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 22:42 schrieb Jan Ekholm:
>>> This sets the text fine as well as the color. However, as soon as I use
>>> SetColor() the color changes to cyan but the "highlight bar" isn't shown
>>> anymore when navigating the menu. If I leave out the call the items are
>>> all white and the bar shows the currently selected item normally. The
>>> SetColor call seems to make it disappear somehow, although it still does
>>> work internally, if I press twice "down" I'll get the third item.
>>>
>>> Anything I've misunderstood about the color usage? The colors show up ok
>>> and I have no crasches nor errors.
>>
>> Basically, everything is right with what you are doing. Well, almost. You just
>> have only four colors in the central area. So don't use more, or use a
>> different output-device.
>
>I think the point is, that VDR 1.2.x marks an item as
>"unselectable" as soon as the color is changed. I'm not
>completely sure, but I think in VDR 1.3.x the two things have
>been seperated.

This is 1.3.6. I think I saw the same behaviour on 1.2 last summer when I
started work on this plugin. I then thought I had done something wrong and
converted to put some extra characters on one type of item to separate
them.

The items can be selected, it's just that the selection bar isn't shown.

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