[vdr] Re: text2skin and vdr-1.3.14 display problems

["C.Y.M" <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>]

Alain Bougrain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have similar problems with text2skin plugin.
> Try to call the OSD (Menu or anything else) several times and you'll see 
> that it appears sometimes. Not found the rule "in that case, OSD 
> appears, in this one it does not" yet.
>
> Maybee Klaus can say if he changed anything in the OSD handler so that 
> text2skin developper(s) can solve this problem.
>
> AB.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C.Y.M" <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>
> To: "Vdr" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 8:10 PM
> Subject: [vdr] text2skin and vdr-1.3.14 display problems
>
>
> > The text2skin plugin seems to compile just fine with vdr-1.3.14, but 
> > when I select a skin, nothing is displayed. Does anyone know how to 
> > fix that? I didnt realize that the OSD changed with 1.3.14.
I believe this has to do with the font changing to iso8859-15.  Besides 
that, the only other relative difference between vdr-1.3.13 and 
vdr-1.3.14 that I can see is this:

--- vdr-1.3.13/genfontfile.c    2003-05-29 05:28:27.000000000 -0700
+++ vdr-1.3.14/genfontfile.c    2004-10-23 07:22:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
           charHeight = charinfo->ascent + charinfo->descent;
           spanLength = (charWidth + 7) / 8;
         }
-        bitmapData = calloc(height * spanLength, sizeof(char));
+        bitmapData = (unsigned char *)calloc(height * spanLength, 
sizeof(char));
         if (!bitmapData)
           goto FreeFontAndReturn;
         DEBUG_GLYPH4("index %d, glyph %d (%d by %d)\n",