[vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-07 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Hey all, Ever had the trouble that your remote's color navigation key weren't the same as VDR's? Well I wrote this patch the past 4 hours which lets you configure them. By doing so, the order of the buttons in the menu changes depending on whatever you tell it to. So finally that remote can match

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-07 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Not wanting to throw any oil on this fire, or make things worse, I still don't see any mention of an order for these keys. Not even all colors are defined. A quote from the site you linked: other keys marked in various colours (e.g.: red, green, yellow, blue) Various colors, meaning there's no li

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-04 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:33 PM, fnu wrote: > === > Your theory that the RGYB color scheme is a worldwide standard with only > cheap obscure non-media remotes being 'non-compliant' has already been thrown > out the window.  I don't know why you think pasting a link to an Italian > website can so

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-04 Thread fnu
=== Your theory that the RGYB color scheme is a worldwide standard with only cheap obscure non-media remotes being 'non-compliant' has already been thrown out the window. I don't know why you think pasting a link to an Italian website can somehow resurrect the dead theory. Btw, no link you eve

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-04 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:34 AM, fnu wrote: > Hi there, > > to finish discussion if RGYB ist a standard or not or where does it come > from: Your theory that the RGYB color scheme is a worldwide standard with only cheap obscure non-media remotes being 'non-compliant' has already been thrown out th

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-04 Thread fnu
:57 An: 'VDR Mailing List' Betreff: AW: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable Well, not only the German one's, there was also a Screenshot from Norway, I guess a kind of advanced teletext: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Digital_teletext_%28NRK%29.j

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-03 Thread fnu
v.org] Im Auftrag von Klaus Schmidinger Gesendet: Sonntag, 3. April 2011 12:55 An: vdr@linuxtv.org Betreff: Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable On 01.04.2011 15:26, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > I have a iMon remote control, which also doesn't use this 'standard' > or

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-03 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 01.04.2011 15:26, Oliver Schinagl wrote: I have a iMon remote control, which also doesn't use this 'standard' order ;) Additionally on my previous mail (I hit send by accident actually :p) I checked the wikipage, and i couldn't find any mention of color or colour in relation to the order of t

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-03 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 31.03.2011 15:40, Rainer Blickle wrote: 2011/3/30 Steffen Barszus: 2011/3/30 Oliver Schinagl: I belive that is exactly only what this patch does, it changes the positions on the screen for the ST-NG theme I think (it's been a while I admit). So if VDR is told that the red button performs th

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread VDR User
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: > The RGYB color enumeration is defined in the video teletext standard and > every TV/STB set implementing the teletext feature DOES use the mentioned > color button order. I guess the teletext is used mainly in Europe, so there > might be diff

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread VDR User
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:40 AM, fnu wrote: >> Regardless, users always have the option to patch the feature in if it >> doesn't become a part of VDR's core. > > Here we go! Provide a patch, users can use or not w/o assuming to change > vdr-core. > > Like the majority of users, I do use remotes f

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:33:58 +0300 (EEST) Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: > The RGYB color enumeration is defined in the video teletext standard and > every TV/STB set implementing the teletext feature DOES use the > mentioned color button order. I guess the teletext is used mainly in > Europe, so there

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread Udo Richter
Am 02.04.2011 12:23, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: > I could imagine accepting a patch that centralizes handling > the sequence in which the color buttons are displayed, and > offers a standard interface to skin plugins that allows > them to arrange the color buttons accordingly. > > What I don't wan

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread fnu
> Regardless, users always have the option to patch the feature in if it > doesn't become a part of VDR's core. Here we go! Provide a patch, users can use or not w/o assuming to change vdr-core. Like the majority of users, I do use remotes following kls's VDR standard defined a century ago. I

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 02.04.2011 11:33, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, VDR User wrote: Ignoring remotes that don't follow the RGYB scheme doesn't make them any less 'tv oriented' or go away. I can't imagine it's much of a leap to make the colored button position customizable and is probably something t

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread Rolf Ahrenberg
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, VDR User wrote: Ignoring remotes that don't follow the RGYB scheme doesn't make them any less 'tv oriented' or go away. I can't imagine it's much of a leap to make the colored button position customizable and is probably something that's better to have then not. What good a

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM, fnu wrote: > vdr-user: >> That's definitely not true.  I have about 8 different remotes and at least >> half don't use that button order.  In addition, not every remote has color >> buttons 4 in a row.  Plenty of them make a square around other buttons such >> as

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread fnu
vdr-user: > That's definitely not true. I have about 8 different remotes and at least > half don't use that button order. In addition, not every remote has color > buttons 4 in a row. Plenty of them make a square around other buttons such > as 'ok/enter' for example. Oliver Schinagl: > I was

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:13 AM, fnu wrote: > The color order of the RGYB buttons is a common standard, defined for > Teletext centuries ago. So, 99.999% of all remotes providing these keys do > have this order. That's definitely not true. I have about 8 different remotes and at least half don't

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread Oliver Schinagl
I have a iMon remote control, which also doesn't use this 'standard' order ;) Additionally on my previous mail (I hit send by accident actually :p) I checked the wikipage, and i couldn't find any mention of color or colour in relation to the order of the buttons. Also searching for Yellow didn't r

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread Oliver Schinagl
I actually wrote the patch and posted it on this list, about 4? months ago. It was maybe 20 lines total? It is a realyl small patch. And so far, I have not found 99.999% to follow the same coloring standard at all actually. Personally, I wasn't aware that the order of buttons was standarized on re

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread Rainer Blickle
Yes i do. But the request can be refused, of course. Why not asking. I have a hama MCE ir. Dont know how many people use this remote. 2011/4/1 fnu : >> My remote has the color order Yellow, Red, Blue, Green (only an example, i > dont have the remote at hand). Lets say the buttons are Button0, But

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread fnu
> My remote has the color order Yellow, Red, Blue, Green (only an example, i dont have the remote at hand). Lets say the buttons are Button0, Button1, Button2, Button3 > My (and perhaps only my) opinion is that vdr should request the leftmost color button, then the color right next to it (and so o

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-01 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Ah, I use a lirc based remote and don't learn anything. I've just told VDR, that my VDR_RED is LIRC_RED etc, so when I press the red button, the action that is bound to VDR_RED is executed, regardless of the location of the button. This patch only changes the OSD location of the button, to match th

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-31 Thread Rainer Blickle
2011/3/30 Steffen Barszus : > 2011/3/30 Oliver Schinagl : >> I belive that is exactly only what this patch does, it changes the >> positions on the screen for the ST-NG theme I think (it's been a while I >> admit). >> >> So if VDR is told that the red button performs the job of the red >> button, t

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-30 Thread Steffen Barszus
2011/3/30 Oliver Schinagl : > I belive that is exactly only what this patch does, it changes the > positions on the screen for the ST-NG theme I think (it's been a while I > admit). > > So if VDR is told that the red button performs the job of the red > button, then everything is ok. > > To recap,

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-30 Thread Oliver Schinagl
I belive that is exactly only what this patch does, it changes the positions on the screen for the ST-NG theme I think (it's been a while I admit). So if VDR is told that the red button performs the job of the red button, then everything is ok. To recap, the problem I had with VDR that caused me

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Blickle
Sorry for the noise, because: when learning lirc i havn't pressed the colors vdr wanted to be pressed, i pressed them from left to right. Afterwards, when switching the colors of the on-screen buttons, i thought only the color but not the positions of the on screen buttons get changed. When press

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-29 Thread Rainer Blickle
I will take a look on it 2011/3/29 Oliver Schinagl : > I've never heard of that plugin before, and don't have it as such, so no > idea how it goes wrong. > > Can you more closely describe how it goes wrong? From the description, I > think they implement their own additional 'skin' and thus the plu

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-29 Thread Oliver Schinagl
I've never heard of that plugin before, and don't have it as such, so no idea how it goes wrong. Can you more closely describe how it goes wrong? From the description, I think they implement their own additional 'skin' and thus the plugin would have to be ported aswel. On 03/29/11 10:00, Rainer B

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-03-29 Thread Rainer Blickle
I've tried the patch and it worked at the first glance. But with the plugin Extrecmenu there are problems with the color keys. So i rolled back the patch. 2010/10/19 VDR User : > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: >> Nobody has any comment at all? :) >> >> I haven't found an

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2010-10-19 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > Nobody has any comment at all? :) > > I haven't found an issue as of yet running this for weeks now on my own VDR. > I must say, it is nice to have the color order of the buttons match my > remote :) The color arrangement already matches

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2010-10-19 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Nobody has any comment at all? :) I haven't found an issue as of yet running this for weeks now on my own VDR. I must say, it is nice to have the color order of the buttons match my remote :) On 09/16/10 04:05, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > Hey all, > > Ever had the trouble that your remote's color n

[vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2010-09-15 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Hey all, Ever had the trouble that your remote's color navigation key weren't the same as VDR's? Well I wrote this patch the past 4 hours which lets you configure them. By doing so, the order of the buttons in the menu changes depending on whatever you tell it to. So finally that remote can match