[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Remote Control Plugin 0.3.1

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 15:31, Jeremy Hall wrote:
> yes I figured that out, and in fact with 1.3.7 I managed to get things 
> going, however it won't display any of the text to the remote plugin, 
> although it will accept keys from it, so I can, for example, press 
> appropriate keys and the rotor plugin is doing something, but since it 
> makes its own OSD interface, the remote plugin does not seem to have 
> access to this.

True. That's why the remote plugin cannot provide a real osd.

> I guess the solution would be to try and rewrite some of the rotor plugin
> to use the cStatus interface, avoiding its graphics and colours, but 
> making the data usable to the user.
> 
> Given that I have an installer showing up tomorrow to put up a dish that i 
> have waited over a year and a half to install, I'd like to solve this 
> problem in some way by then.

If standard output of vdr is sufficient, you could add a few printf
statements to the rotor plugin. If you need output from the remote
plugin, you can add some cStatus::OsdTextItem() or Skins::Message()
calls to the rotor plugin.

HTH
Oliver


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