[vdr] Re: OSD "ERROR: attempt to open OSD while it is already open!"

[Achim Tuffentsammer <a.tuffentsammer@web.de>]

Nicolas Huillard wrote:

> Since cOsdProvider::NewOsd() can return NULL, osd->anything shouldn't 
> be called without testing.
> I simply cannot decide how to handle the case, since we are in the 
> constructor cSkinSTTNGDisplayMessage::cSkinSTTNGDisplayMessage and 
> many methods after that will try to use the osd property, and crash... 
> The cSkinSTTNGDisplayMessage should simply abort it's construction, 
> but I don't know how to write it in C++...

Why don't you simply return from the constructor after NewOsd returns NULL?
There was a patch posted some days ago concerning this problem:

http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/07-2004/msg00520.html

Rg. Achim