[vdr] Re: can the osd be accessed by a separate pthread?

[Gunnar Roth <gunnar.roth@gmx.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Gunnar Roth wrote:
>  
> > ...
> >    
> > > As you can easily find outby testing, in this case the cOsdObject returned by
> > > MainMenuAction is deleted (it should close the OsdBase then), and the message
> > > is displayed.
> > > So this will interrupt your newsticker.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Of course, this is the way it should be. the messages are important and
> > should interrupt anything else.
> > i can later on restart the ticker.
> >
> > Is there a way to find out, when the status message disappears? can
> > cStatus be used to monitor this?
> >    
> Even if it would, it wouldn't help you much because you couldn't
> reopen your OSD in the necessary way (ok, you could define a key macro
> and put that into the key queue).
>  
Hmm must investigate this key macro stuff, you mentioned.
My vbox plugin uses Interface->Info to inform the user about new calls. 
Interface->Info is called from Housekeeping.
Would you call this an abuse, or is this allowed?

> VDR 1.3 will introduce a way of allowing any plugin to bring up an
> OSD at any time (by having the main loop poll each plugin in turn),
> but that will have to wait until 1.3 is started.
>
> Klaus
Good to hear.

regards,
gunnar






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