Mailing List Archive: Image aspect ratio in OSD themes

Image aspect ratio in OSD themes

Jul 17, 2009, 12:57 PM

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I'm trying to modify the "Gray" OSD theme in part to preserve the aspect
ratio of channel icons. Currently they are squashed into a square and I'd
like to prevent that from happening. Ideally, I'd like to specify a maximum
height and width and have it preserve the aspect ratio, but I'm not sure how
to do that. The <preserveaspect> tage in MythUI seems not to work for OSD
themes. The OSD theme currently uses a <staticsize> tag. Is there something
like a <dynamicsize> counterpart, or something else that would let me
accomplish this?

Thanks!

Re: Image aspect ratio in OSD themes [ In reply to ]

robert.mcnamara at gmail

Jul 17, 2009, 12:59 PM

Post #2 of 3 (3084 views)

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Christopher Meredith <chmeredith@gmail.com
> wrote:

> I'm trying to modify the "Gray" OSD theme in part to preserve the aspect
> ratio of channel icons. Currently they are squashed into a square and I'd
> like to prevent that from happening. Ideally, I'd like to specify a maximum
> height and width and have it preserve the aspect ratio, but I'm not sure how
> to do that. The <preserveaspect> tage in MythUI seems not to work for OSD
> themes. The OSD theme currently uses a <staticsize> tag. Is there something
> like a <dynamicsize> counterpart, or something else that would let me
> accomplish this?
>

The OSD has not been converted to MythUI, ergo mythUI theming tags are not
going to work in the OSD yet. I don't actually know any pre-MythUI theming
so someone might be able to chime in if there's an equivalent, but I wanted
to explain why preserveaspect wasn't working for you.

(similar rules will apply to un-mythUI'd screens like parts of MythMusic,
MythZoneMinder, and a couple other places)

Robert

Re: Image aspect ratio in OSD themes [ In reply to ]

chmeredith at gmail

Jul 17, 2009, 1:02 PM

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Christopher Meredith <
> chmeredith@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to modify the "Gray" OSD theme in part to preserve the aspect
>> ratio of channel icons. Currently they are squashed into a square and I'd
>> like to prevent that from happening. Ideally, I'd like to specify a maximum
>> height and width and have it preserve the aspect ratio, but I'm not sure how
>> to do that. The <preserveaspect> tage in MythUI seems not to work for OSD
>> themes. The OSD theme currently uses a <staticsize> tag. Is there something
>> like a <dynamicsize> counterpart, or something else that would let me
>> accomplish this?
>>
>
> The OSD has not been converted to MythUI, ergo mythUI theming tags are not
> going to work in the OSD yet. I don't actually know any pre-MythUI theming
> so someone might be able to chime in if there's an equivalent, but I wanted
> to explain why preserveaspect wasn't working for you.
>
> (similar rules will apply to un-mythUI'd screens like parts of MythMusic,
> MythZoneMinder, and a couple other places)
>

I assumed the MythUI tag wouldn't work, but I figured I'd give it a try
anyway. Thanks for your fast reply, by the way. I <preserveaspect>'ed the
EPG and the icons look fantastic. I'll post screenshots soon. I've also been
messing around with Mythweb.