Richard Reuters wrote:
> I'm writing a plugin and would like to display some OSD output in columns like
> many other plugins and vdr itself does. But special characters like '\t' for
> a tabulator are not working.
>
> For examlple I've a cOSdMenu derived class and want to add an entry
> (simplified):
>
> class cItems : public cOsdMenu
> {
> private:
> int item_type;
> char *header;
> char *name;
> public:
> cItems::cItems(int Type,const char *Text,const char *Header);
> virtual ~cItems();
> virtual eOSState ProcessKey(eKeys Key);
> };
>
> class cItemsEntry : public cOsdItem {
> private:
> char *entry;
> public:
> cItemsEntry(const char *Entry);
> ~cItemsEntry();
> }
>
> cItems::cItems(int Type,const char *Text,const char *Header)
> :cOsdMenu("")
>
Here you have to specify TAB-positions for your menu:
cItems::cItems(int Type,const char *Text,const char *Header)
:cOsdMenu("", 20, 10)
will give you columns at 0, 20 and 30. Column seperation is done via \t as you
already found out.
Good luck
Peter
