[vdr] How to change font data?

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 03/02/08 10:25, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> "Martin Prochnow" <martinprochnow at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
>>> Is it possible to change font data directly in code or do I have to
>>> create my own true type font containing the icons?
> 
> the best aproach IMHO would be an API in VDR that allows you to "nail"
> custom glyphs into the glyph cache. though this could lead to problems
> if multiple plugins overwrite the same codepoints in the cache. using a
> custom font would work too but you would force every user of your
> plugin to use that font. making a ttf font is no fun either. maybe
> there should be some way to mix cOsd::Bitmap with normal text?

Messing with the fonts is not a good idea, IMHO.

I'll see about a method to add icons to the menu items.
However, this has veeery low priority ;-)

Klaus