OSD Opinions Needed

[Tom Miranda]

Ladies and Gents,

I need your opinion on a design element relating to the OSD.  I've figured out a way to create an OSD (instead of using the Boxee default OSD) but it can't be used to display graphics, only text.  My question is: What would be the best design for a text only OSD?

Background: I need to replace the Boxee OSD for LiveTV playback so I can intercept user clicks and take the appropriate action (like changing the channel or stopping playback).  Unfortunately there is no way to do this using the default Boxee OSD. :(  I've implemented the OSD by displaying a "dialog" window after playback has begun.  This works, but it will not display graphics so I'm stuck with only displaying text.

I can use ">" and ">>" for skipping, "||" for pause, but what about things like Stop, Play, Channel Up/Down, Mute?  I thought about using unicode characters (or UTF-8, I'm not sure what Boxee supports), but I don't know much about doing that in the UI XML.

Thought, suggestions?

[Karl Ricker]

Doesn't sound like it is going to be to pretty :) Any chance of using a custom font? If so, I could make one however we wanted.

[Tom Miranda]

I don't know if custom fonts can be used.  Can you look into that?

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Karl Ricker <kjri...@gmail.com> wrote:

Doesn't sound like it is going to be to pretty :) Any chance of using a custom font? If so, I could make one however we wanted.

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[Karl Ricker]

I know XBMC can. I'll have to read up on Boxee.

[Karl Ricker]

[Tom Miranda]

Karl,

There is something I need in the graphics department.  Can you make versions of the various OSD icons that can be used to show they are in focus?  I'm using a button control to display the icons and it gives me the ability to show different icons depending on if the button is focused or not.  Can you take that on?

And yes, I think I have figured out a way to use icons and not graphics.  It seems the crashing I was getting was NOT caused by the icons but rather by an unrelated part of the code.  I got lucky and stumbled upon the issue yesterday and fixed it today (I think).

Thanks,

Tom

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Karl Ricker <kjri...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know XBMC can. I'll have to read up on Boxee.

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[Karl Ricker]

Sure can. Which graphics are you using?

[Tom Miranda]

Every image in svn that starts with OSD except OSDRecord.png.

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Karl Ricker <kjri...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sure can. Which graphics are you using?

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