vdr-plugin-skindesigner/HISTORY

VDR Plugin 'skindesigner' Revision History
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2014-09-27: Version 0.0.1

- Initial revision.

Version 0.0.2

- added some more tokens with more detailed audio information in
  displaychannel -> statusinfo
- added hasVPS for current scheduling in displaychannel -> epginfo
- added common channel logo path for all skins
- changed skin handling so that every skin is directly shown in VDR OSD Menu
- added Theme support, each skin can now have various themes
- fixed a crash if no skindesigner skins are found and plugin setup menu is
  called from another skin
- added {durationhours} and {durationminutes} tokens in several view elements
- added discusage icons to menu header view element so that it discusage can be
  displayed in every menu view
- added numeric day, month and year tokens in different view elements
- support for global variables type "double"
- added setup options to configure rerun display behaviour
- changed display of menu lists, do flush first after complete rendering
- added support for custom tokens in dislaychannel
- added vps token in menudetailepg
- implemented cSDDisplayMenu::GetTextAreaFont()
- introduced new viewelement audioinfo in displaychannel
- added setup option to choose Menu Item display method between "at one go" and
  "after one another"
- fixed bug that new skin was not properly loaded sometimes when skin was
  changed in OSD Setup menu
- fixed bug that new font was displayed first after VDR restart when font was
  changed in OSD Setup menu
- display always newest recording of folders in recordings list,
  thanks@ Lars Hanisch for providing the patch
- added extented recording information
- added token {nummenuitem} as number of item for every list, value starts
  with 1
- fixed bug that x and y of subviews was not respected
- if a subview is completely not set in a skin, the default menu is used
- fixed a bug if displaydetailedtext is called without correct menucat (mailbox
  plugin)
- implemented function drawslope, see Wiki for documentation
- using default menu list in case an invalid MenuCategory is set
- added device info in displaychannel, example in metrixHD
- improved menu icon display, additionally using menu cat
- changed devices list, device numbers start with 0
- fixed bug that hasposter is only true if poster really exists
- no absolute pathes allowed for image type "image", path has to start with
  {ressourcedir}

Version 0.0.3

- added tokens for current video and audio bitrate in displaychannel.
  Thx @rofafor for the original code
  in the femon plugin and _Martin_ for extracting the code in skinflatplus
- changed skin metrixHD to display bitrate infos
- added "active" Token for cutting marks so that a mark can be displayed in a
  dedicated way if current position in replay exactly hits the mark
- added {channelname}, {channelid}, {channellogoexists} for all schedules list
  and current views
- added printf function for <drawtext>, see Wiki for documentation
- removed code for displaying bitrates in displaychannel again because of
  incompatibility with dvbapi Plugin
- optimized performance when creating a menu list
- fixed Bug that displaychannel was not shown after closing displaymenu with
  "backspace" (with active menuorg plugin)
- fixed Bug with menuselection Patch
- added tokens {month}, {monthname} and {year} in displaymenutimers listitem and 
  currentitem
- added dedicated tokens for posters and banners in <srapercontent> in 
  displaychannel and displayreplay
- added Plugin Interface
- fixed crash when clearing a message in displaychannel and displayreplay
- fixed positioning of scaled video window if borders are configured

Version 0.0.4

- added SVG Support - thanks to Manuel Reimer!

Version 0.0.5

- added {channelnumber} and {channelname} Tokens in displaymenudetailepg 
  detailheader
- fixed {hasicon} Token in displaymenu header
- added {newmails} Token in displaychannel statusinfo, mailbox plugin
  has to be installed
- clearing displaymessage if it is called without text
- changed handling of channel logos, width and height are now mandatory

Version 0.0.6

- fixed Bug that channel info was not shown when displaying reruns with
  epgsearch
- using VDRs OSD Language instead of system language
- added compatibility to librsvg >= 2.36.1
- added onpause and onpausemodeonly in displayreplay
- added {channellogoexists} Token everywhere where {channelid} is available

Version 0.0.7

- fixed bug that global double vars are not working

Version 0.0.8

- added {channelnumber} Token in displaymenuschedules
- displaying default menu list if menu category is set to another category
  but SetItem() is called

Version 0.1.0

- fixed display of color buttons in detailed views
- fixed possible Nullpointer access in displaymenurootview 
- added currentschedule viewelement in displaymenumain
- fixed bug that wrong channel was shown in header of whatson
  if entering from whatsonnow
- added customtokens view element in displaymenumain
- added automatic determination of custom int tokens

Version 0.1.1

- added "temperatures" view element in displaymenumainview to display
  cpu and gpu temperature in main menu (scripts to get temperatures
  borrowed from skinflatplus). scripts to get temperatures have to be
  adapted according the system setup.
- added "time" view element in displaychannelview, displayreplay view
  and displaymenuviews to display current time with seconds precision
- added {currenttab}, {prevtab}, {nexttab} Tokens in <tablabels> view
  elements
- fixed bug that in displaytracks the audio tracks are not positioned
  correctly
- fixed some minor bugs
- added skin "blackhole"
- added customtokens view element in displayreplay
- optimised some settings in skin blackhole


Version 0.1.2

- display only active remote timers in main menu
- fixed two possible null pointer accesses in displaymenurootview
- fixed bug that EPGSearch Favorites Menu was not displayed correctly,
  introduced "whatsonfavorites" Token in displaymenuschedules
- fixed again display of channel in schedules header
- added now and next in blackhole channels menu
- fixed bug that epg quicksearch menu was not displayed properly
- added weatherforecast templates
- some fixes for plugins which use skindesigner template interface

Version 0.1.3

- added {epgname} token for recordings in currentview and detailedview.
- fixed crash when start recording with extrecmenu or remotetimers

Version 0.1.4

- fixed token volpercent in nopacity and metrixhd
- added "empty" operator additionally to "isset" to check in a condition
  if a string token is set
- added token {nummenuitem} for plugin menu lists
- fixed bug that custom int tokens were not considered in conditions
- added possibility for skinners to define a skin setup, skin setup can
  be done in plugin setup menu
- made skin blackhole configurable, adapted xml files

Version 0.1.5

- removed suppression of first DisplayChannel call after VDR start
- fixed "flickering" bug with vdr2.1.7
- fixed bug that osd language was not set correctly which caused one
  additional skin caching at startup

Version 0.1.6

- fixed bug that onpause view potentially starts during setting cutting
  marks
- made all globals variables private
- introduced globals.xml in skinpath, theme.xml in theme path. theme.xml
  adds its vakues and potentially overrides valués from globals.xml
- check icons, menuicons and skinparts additionally directly in skin folder
  to allow default images which can be used for all skins
- fixed bug that setup variables are sometimes not identified in case two 
  or more skin names start identically

Version 0.2.0

- fixed Bug that double vars were not handled correctly
- fixed Bug that calling mplayer plugin via keymacros.conf causes segfault

Version 0.2.1

- fixed bug that global tokens were not parsed correctly
- added finnish translation
- some more nopacity optimizations - thanx@utility
- added possibiliy to use submenus in the skin setup menus
- reloading active skin directly after closing setup menu so that
  changes of setup parameters are immediately in use 

Version 0.2.2

- added replay onpause view in blackhole skin
- implemented SetTitle() in displayreplay
- fixed header icon for plugin menus
- added function "drawtextvertical"
- implemented advanced plugin interface
- added tvguideng templates for all skins

Version 0.3.0

- checking setup conditions for viewelements
- fixed FadeOut bug
- fixed crash when opening and closing main menu consecutively
- fixed bug detecting menu item numbers in main menu
- fixed recording progress bar in nopacity
- added <systemmemory> viewelement in main menu
- added possibility to hide root menu from a subview template
- moved access to cControl to main thread to avoid crash
  in onpauseview
- added recording icons to metrixHD
- fixed colors in tvguideng timeline in nopacity darkred

Version 0.3.1

- Fixed hide root menu from a subview template
- Fixed translation of grids
- adapted tvguideng templates

Version 0.3.2

- fixed crash in drawing devices
- fixed crash if number of dvb devices changes
- added possibility to detach dedicated viewelements in displaychannel
  and displaymenumain that they start in an own thread
- introduced background="true" attribute in viewelements. These areas
  will only be drawn once.
- fixed bug in creating osd
- fixed bug when creating pixmaps

Version 0.3.3

- added viewelement <lastrecordings> with information about 5 newest
  recordings in main menu
- fixed bug that parameters with both dynamic tokens and relative width,
  height, posx or posy values are not parsed correctly
- fixed bug also for loops
- added possibility to draw vertical text bottomum and topdown
- translate drawtextvertical
- added viewelement <endtime> in displayreplay to display the time
  the currently replayed recording ends
- added viewelement <sortmode> in displaymenu to display the sort
  mode of the currently displayed menu. <sortmode> can be used in
  any list menu, implementation in displaymenu.xml is default
- use recording info for <currentschedule> viewelement in main menu
  if recording is replayed. New token {islivetv} indicates this.
- added Token {percentseen} to listelements in menurecordings. For
  VDR Version < 2.1.8 {percentseen} is set to -1.
- added Token {timers[isremotetimer]} to <timers> in main menu
- added parameter mode to viewelement <devices>. if mode="light"
  no signal information will be fetched to improve performance.

Version 0.3.4
  
- fixed backward compatibility to VDR version < 2.1.1 where
  cRecording::IsInUse() was introduced
- automatically detect type of image if no file extension is available
- introduced libskindesignerapi

Version 0.4.0

- fixed bug that time was not correctly drawn if a submenu implements
  its own time display
- fixed bug that date was drawn every flush in displayreplay 
- fixed bug in metrixhd timers menu
- fixed bug that datetime was not correctly drawn if a submenu implements
  its own datetime display
- adapted Makefiles to work also in a LCLBLD environment
- reverted Makefile changes in parts
- added category indicator token to default menus

Version 0.4.1

- added locks around cTextWrappers to avoid crashed when concurrently
  accessing fonts
- changed build and install process

Version 0.4.2

- fixed bug that datetime was not drawn correctly in menus
- fixed bug that string tokens are not evaluated in area conditions
- added possibility to draw a debug grid in views
- added more info if debugImage is activted in config
- added possibility for blinking images, texts, rectangles, ellipses 
  and slopes
- adapted libskindesignerapi makefile for LCLBLD

Version 0.4.3

- added strequal, strnotequal, strcontains, strnotcontains functions
  to compare strings in conditions
- fixed sort order in lastrecordings viewelement
- added tokens for progressbars in displamenudefault
- implemented dvbapi service interface, added viewelement ecminfo
  in displaychannel
- added cardsystem name to ecm info
- added correct menucategory for skin setups
- fixed bug that tokens in image pathes are not replaced correctly

Version 0.4.4

- feature: possibility to move viewelements when starting view
- expanded shifting features

Version 0.4.5

- added {numtimers} Token to lastrecordings viewelement
- fixed time display bug in displaymenurecordings
- added token {watched} to displaymenurecordings
- fixed bug that scrapercontent in displaychannel was not
  updated if detached
- fixed bug that detached viewelements were not cleared
  correctly
- implemented shiftout for views
- fixed blinking for animated views
- chachged displaymessage in menus to detachable
- fixed dayseparators in schedules menu
- small fixes in metrixhd main menu

Version 0.4.6

- added token {startsin} in displaymenuschedules
- added viewelement <vdrstatistics> in main menu
- added permashift support in displaychannel
- added timeshift support in displayreplay

Version 0.4.7

- fixed crash when deleting menuitem
- fixed ecm time display
- provide 10 last recordings in <lastrecordings> viewelement
- fixed translation in currentelement loops
- fixed timeshifttotal in displayreplay timeshift mode

Version 0.4.8

- implemented Skin Repositories

Version 0.5.0

- fixed display of channel separators
- added some debug output when installing skins
- added timeout for preview screenshot downloading
- added some skins
- adapted README

Version 0.5.1

- changed skin installation that VDR main loop is not blocked
- use shallow clone when cloning git
- implemented possibility to delete skins

Version 0.5.2

- only close OSD when a skin is successfully updated from Git
- refresh custom token display with each custom token change
- added recording shorttext, description and scraper poster tokens
  to displaymenurecordings listelement
- allow currentelements to use conditions
- fixed bug searching channel logos with channelid
- fixed bug in parsing printf text tokens
- changed "Update from Git" to "Update"
- made viewelement scrapercontent in displayreplay detachable

Version 0.5.3

- added SVG Template parsing
- fixed memory leak when creating fonts
- fixed crash using animated images in plugins
- added banner to displaymenuschedulescurrentview and 
  displaymenureplaycurrentview
- immplemented areacontainers to group areas
- fixed bug displaying pixmaps with transparency
- fixed bug displaying wrong headers in skin setup submenus

Version 0.6.0

- fixed bug that menulists are not read if no currentelement
  is defined

Version 0.6.1

- changed skinrepository from static file to github repository
- fixed flickering when main menu is fading
- some changes in metrixHD
- changed font in metrixhd from "VDROpen Sans" to "Open Sans"
- fixed crashes if main menu is opened consecutively
- added version check for skinrepositiries

Version 0.6.2

- added progressmodeonly viewelement in displayreplay
- fixed bug in checking skin version
- added {watched} and {percentseen} to displaymenurecordings
  current view

Version 0.6.3

- implemented horizontal menus
  For displaying horizontal menus with VDR <= 2.2.x a VDR 
  patch is required (see /patches/vdr-2.2.0_horizontal_menu.patch 
  in the plugin source directory). Without this patch the keys 
  left/right and up/down are not toggled in horizontal menus. 
  With VDR >= 2.3.1 this patch is not needed anymore.
- added possibility to add conditions to <menuitems> elements
- added possibility to define a viewelement several times with
  different conditions
- added "string" skin setup parameter with multiple options
- added "valign" option in <drawtextbox>. If the box height is set
  and the text does not need the complete height, with valign="center"
  the text can be placed horizontally centered inside the box borders.
- implemented optional horizontal main-, recordings- and 
  weatherforecast menu in metrixhd

Version 0.7.0

- fixed compiling fur unpatched VDR

Version 0.7.1