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diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html index d18bc424..0b0b4956 100644 --- a/PLUGINS.html +++ b/PLUGINS.html @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <center><h1>The VDR Plugin System</h1></center> -<center><b>Version 1.5.3</b></center> +<center><b>Version 1.5.8</b></center> <p> <center> Copyright © 2006 Klaus Schmidinger<br> @@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ Copyright © 2006 Klaus Schmidinger<br> <a href="http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr">www.cadsoft.de/vdr</a> </center> <p> -<!--X1.5.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA> </td><td width=100%> -Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.0 are marked like this. -<!--X1.5.0--></td></tr></table> -<!--X1.5.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA> </td><td width=100%> Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.1 are marked like this. <!--X1.5.1--></td></tr></table> -<!--X1.5.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00> </td><td width=100%> Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.3 are marked like this. <!--X1.5.3--></td></tr></table> -<!--X1.5.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000> </td><td width=100%> Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.7 are marked like this. <!--X1.5.7--></td></tr></table> +<!--X1.5.8--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000> </td><td width=100%> +Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.8 are marked like this. +<!--X1.5.8--></td></tr></table> <p> VDR provides an easy to use plugin interface that allows additional functionality to be added to the program by implementing a dynamically loadable library file. @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ structures and allows it to hook itself into specific areas to perform special a <li><a href="#Housekeeping">Housekeeping</a> <li><a href="#Main thread hook">Main thread hook</a> <li><a href="#Activity">Activity</a> -<!--X1.5.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA> </td><td width=100%> <li><a href="#Wakeup">Wakeup</a> <!--X1.5.1--></td></tr></table> <li><a href="#Setup parameters">Setup parameters</a> @@ -88,9 +88,7 @@ structures and allows it to hook itself into specific areas to perform special a <li><a href="#Devices">Devices</a> <li><a href="#Audio">Audio</a> <li><a href="#Remote Control">Remote Control</a> -<!--X1.5.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA> </td><td width=100%> <li><a href="#Conditional Access">Conditional Access</a> -<!--X1.5.0--></td></tr></table> </ul> </ul> @@ -687,7 +685,7 @@ be queried, and further prompts may show up. If all prompts have been confirmed, the shutdown will take place. As soon as one prompt is not confirmed, no further plugins will be queried and no shutdown will be done. -<!--X1.5.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA> </td><td width=100%> <a name="Wakeup"><hr><h2>Wakeup</h2> <center><i><b>Wake me up before you go-go</b></i></center><p> @@ -912,7 +910,7 @@ const char *MyConfigDir = cPlugin::ConfigDirectory(); <center><i><b>Welcome to Babylon!</b></i></center><p> -<!--X1.5.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000> </td><td width=100%> If a plugin displays texts to the user, it should prepare for internationalization of these texts. All that is necessary for this is to mark every text that is presented to the user as translatable, as in @@ -923,9 +921,12 @@ const char *s = tr("Hello world!"); The text given here must be the English version, and the returned pointer is either a translated version (if available) or the original string. -Texts are first searched for in the domain registered for this plugin (if any) -and then in the global VDR texts. So a plugin can make use of texts defined by the -core VDR code. +<!--X1.5.8--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000> </td><td width=100%> +Texts are searched for in the domain registered for this plugin. +If a plugin wants to make use of texts defined by the core VDR code, it can use +the special <tt>trVDR()</tt> macro to mark these texts without having them +appear in its own translation file. +<!--X1.5.8--></td></tr></table> <p> Sometimes texts are stored in an array, in which case they need to be marked differently, using the trNOOP() macro. The actual translation is then done @@ -943,7 +944,7 @@ for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) </pre></td></tr></table><p> <p> -<!--X1.5.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00> </td><td width=100%> The system VDR is running on may use a character encoding where a single character (or <i>symbol</i>) consists of more than one byte (UTF-8, as opposed to, for instance, ISO8859-1, where every character is represented by a single byte in memory). @@ -1605,7 +1606,7 @@ with the full required resolution. Only if this fails shall it use alternate areas. Drawing areas are always rectangular and may not overlap (but do not need to be adjacent). <p> -<!--X1.5.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000> </td><td width=100%> +<!--X1.5.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00> </td><td width=100%> Special consideration may have to be given to color usage if the OSD provides 8bpp (256 colors). In that case, fonts may be drawn using <i>anti-aliasing</i>, which requires several blended color values between the foreground and background @@ -2088,7 +2089,6 @@ Put(uint64 Code, bool Repeat = false, bool Release = false); The other parameters have the same meaning as in the first version of this function. -<!--X1.5.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA> </td><td width=100%> <a name="Conditional Access"><hr><h2>Conditional Access</h2> <center><i><b>Members only!</b></i></center><p> @@ -2123,7 +2123,6 @@ virtual bool Assign(cDevice *Device, bool Query = false); </pre></td></tr></table><p> See the description of this function in <tt>ci.h</tt> for details. -<!--X1.5.0--></td></tr></table> </body> </html> |