>>>>> Is it possible to change font data directly in code or do I have to >>>>> create my own true type font containing the icons? >>> >>> the best aproach IMHO would be an API in VDR that allows you to "nail" >>> custom glyphs into the glyph cache. though this could lead to problems >>> if multiple plugins overwrite the same codepoints in the cache. using a >>> custom font would work too but you would force every user of your >>> plugin to use that font. making a ttf font is no fun either. maybe >>> there should be some way to mix cOsd::Bitmap with normal text? >> >> Messing with the fonts is not a good idea, IMHO. > > It works for VDR 1.4.x ;-) > >> I'll see about a method to add icons to the menu items. >> However, this has veeery low priority ;-) > > So my only option for now is a true type font containing the icons. Or > maybe to create a skin plugin that can displays the icons. > At the moment I try to solve the hole issue by using a true type font containing the icons. There was done some work at vdr-portal.de (thanks folks ;) ) But there comes the next problem. Until now, I use the space between 0x80 and 0x9f, which is marked as unused for ISO8859. But this does not work for UTF-8. Amair from vdr-portal.de suggests to use the position after 0xe000 for this case. So I need two different fonts and I have to check, if VDR is running in an UTF-8 environment and set the values for the icons accordingly. This hole TTF and UTF-8 crap makes the handling of the icons very complicated. Maybe it is the best for now to replace the icons with normal letters until VDR provides support icons. I don't want to dictate the users what font they have to use. Martin _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
