Text2skin-plugin

From VDR Wiki
Revision as of 20:23, 29 September 2004 by Monroe (talk | contribs) (initial)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Description

Screenshot

The text2skin plugin is designed to load and interpret a set of files describing the layout of the On Screen Display and to make this "Skin" available to VDR via Setup -> OSD in the main menu. Of course it is possible to load more than one text-based skin this way and to choose between them while running VDR. All skins may be themeable (you can create your own color-theme) and translateable as the author of the skin wishes.

Hardware requirements

There are two versions of skins for the text2skin plugin

  • "90kb" for standard OSD
  • "1mb" for OSD of modded full featured cards

If a skin with two many colors for the OSD memory is used, one can end up in a non-readable or even not displayed OSD.

Software requirements

  • nothing : only XPM images with no transparency/alpha channel
  • ImageMagick : many different image formats (slower than imlib2)
  • Imlib2 : many different image formats (see problems)

Both can be used together, but it's of no use.

Installation

See plugin installation

Problems

  • Use of the imlib2 library together with the graphtft-plugin can lead to crashes.

Links

[1] http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=text2skin Plugin homepage
[2] http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html Imlib2 Homepage
[3] http://www.imagemagick.org imagemagick Homepage
[4] http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins Skins for the text2skin plugin
Retrieved from "https://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php?title=Text2skin-plugin&oldid=244"