[vdr] to use a current theme color in a plugin

[Luca Olivetti]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Luca Olivetti wrote:
> 
>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>
>>> There is no way an arbitrary plugin could reasonably use any of the
>>> colors a skin has defined - it doesn't have any idea about what each
>>> color is actually used for!
>>
>>
>>
>> Unless you define some standard names/ids that have always the same 
>> meaning (like "background colour", "selected text colour", "selected 
>> text background", "non selected text colour", etc.).
>> Obviously these would be skin/theme dependent but the plugin wouldn't 
>> need to know that, only ask vdr for the current "selected text 
>> colour", etc.
[....]
> Since the skin will give the plugin a cBitmap, there will also be 
> information
> about the color depth and a palette. The skin can fill the palette with the
> colors it can provide, and by convention it could be
> 
>  0 = background
>  1 = text foreground unmarked
>  2 = text foreground marked
>  3 = text background marked
> 
> or something like that. Defining more than 4 colors might be a problem
> for unmodified full featured DVB cards, because there the "central area"
> only has 2bpp.

Yes, that would probably be enough and it's just what I was asking.

Bye
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