[vdr] Re: Simple "dialog box" functions for OSD?

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

Laurence Abbott wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:23, Lars von Wedel wrote:
> >  > I'm wondering if there is a simple function I can call to
> >  > bring up the vdr equivalent of a dialog box with a message
> >
> > You can use Interface->Confirm to have the user confirm some action or
> > Interface->Status to simply display a message. Don't forget to call
> > Interface->Flush afterwards.
> 
> I'm using Interface->Confirm at the moment but the message is too small
> (a line at the bottom of the screen). Does Interface->Status put the
> message in the same place? I'm working on an alarm plugin so that a
> message is shown on screen at a specific time, and I want it to be big
> and very obvious!

You could use a cMenuText.

Klaus