[vdr] Re: plugins & OSD (WAS: prefmenu-patch)

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> 
> Sascha Volkenandt <mailbot1@wat.willz.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Thursday 07 November 2002 09:35 Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> > > i have discoverd some problems with OSD in my tetris plugin, too.
> > > when i deserve the plugin from the cControll it only works as long
> > > nobody presses mute or vol+/- or something the opens its own osd. i
> > > tried also to use cOSDObject as base-class, but this made everything
> > > worse. now the cursor keys got "stolen" from vdr and it switched
> > > channel instead of controlling my plugin and of course the upcoming
> > > osd on channel switch killed my plugin.
> >
> > Can't you deal with that using cControl::Hide? Save the state of the
> > plugin, remove the OSD and continue when the PlugIn is shown again.
> 
> not very comfortable. i even don't think cControl::Hide() will get
> called when [mute] is pressed, but i could be wrong here. anyway, i will
> investigate into this, when klaus had cleand up the OSD-plugin
> interface.
> 
> @ klaus: how about hiding the "Stop Replay" main menu entry, when
> cControl::cControl() was called with a NULL pointer as the player
> parameter. a "Stop Replay" would make no sence in this case anyway.

Using cControl is the completely wrong way for plugins like that.
It has been "abused" as a workaround, but the real solution will look
different.

Klaus
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