Christian Wieninger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to display an OSD message from a separate thread within a plugin to > indicate when some background action has finished. The message should pop up > no matter if there's currently an OSD displayed or not. So SVDRP MESG is no > solution, since this will only appear when leaving the OSD. > > I tried it with the new service interface. The thread calls a service of the > plugin passing the message. The service itself calls > > Skins.Message(serviceData->type, serviceData->message); > > This works fine, but sometimes crashes VDR in cSkins::Message. I've found a > way to reproduce it: > When the main menu is displayed and the message pops up then pressing BACK > while the message still is displayed crashes VDR. In this case the problem is > that in > > cSkinDisplay::Current()->SetMessage(Type, NULL); > > cSkinDisplay::Current() is NULL. Don't know if this is a bug or just the > result of my wrong usage ;-) > Is there any other way to display a message from a thread? There is currently no way of doing this. I'm not sure if there will be one in version 1.4. What's so important about your message that it can't wait? Klaus
