[vdr] Re: Setting color for menu items

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

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:

>On 03 Jul 2004 Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>> Well, I was quite wrong here, the items can't even be selected, only the
>> first item in every list is selectable. Don't know why I got the idea that
>> it worked.
>>
>> So, a SetColor() for cOsdItem:s disables them? What's the use of the
>> method then?
>
>Can't say.
>But up to vdr 1.3.6 setting color and disabling an item are
>combined. In vdr 1.3.7+ the SetColor() method vanished anyways.
>You cannot change the items look there, because this is part of
>the skin.

Ah, skins, I hadn't rememered those at all. Ok, I'll just leave out the
color stuff and later have a look at how the skinning works. Thanks for
the info.

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