[vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"

["Jan Rieger" <vdr@ricomp.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:49 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"


> Jan Rieger wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rene Bartsch" <ml@bartschnet.de>
> > To: "VDR-ML" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:26 PM
> > Subject: [vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"
> >
> > > Am Fre, 2003-08-15 um 22.06 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> > > >
> > > > I've started VDR with -P\"control
> > > > -t/dev/tty8\" and I get a "Hello, foreign, Im the keyboard handler
of
> > > > VDR" and I see a OSD-line with channel-info, but then screen gets
black
> > > > and doesn't react on keyboard.
> > >
> > > I've found the reason. I didn't have a remote.conf. With an old one
> > > copied in it works, but the control-plugin doesn't help on system
> > > without DXR3 or DVB-X. So the plugin should support the teaching
> > > funktion ...
> >
> > Since VDR doesn't support the teaching function over the cState
> > mechanism, the plugin can't provide this kind of information without
> > heavily patching VDR.
> > The plugins "LCDproc" and "Graphic LCD" should have the same
> > problem.
>
> If you want to implement a remote control that automatically goes
> through the learning phase, you just need to derive it from cRemote.
> There's no "heavy patching" necessary for this ,-)

Yes, that's clear. But I can't get and provide the messages that VDR
shows during the learning process on the OSD, because this
mechanism prints on the OSD directly instead of using cState.

Or is there an other way to get these messages?

Jan




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