[Nghost-devel] OnScrenDisplay

[Andreas B. <a.b...@el...>]

hi kev,

i'm mailing on-list as it might be useful to more people than me.. and
it gets archived :)

sa you already know i'm planning on doing some catchup with all the
changes that happened it the last month were i've not been very active.
the OSD class is definately something that has to be in the next release
so that's what i'm after as i originally started it.

what class do i need extend to get the OSD display on the screen? (which
class provides me with an SDL_Rect or Surface to draw on?) because the
screen already features an OSD part (which is included in
background.png) so all i need is to render the text properly in it and
apply some fancy effects to display large data/OSD-"pages".

or would it be better to split the display area from the background,
that way skins can easily define where this area is.

if we keep the current implementation they'd need to place it where they
want the OSD on the background and change to code to render the OSD-text
where the new position is.
tell me what you prefer (i'm for split) and i'll contact eubey to split
that up for me if you want that, too.

andreas