IMO, music player is a "separate" application. We should move it to use GUI. Also, cdbackup should do this way.
Rob: it is possible to get the same appearance of music player using your GUI?
There is a slight problem with mixing the objects in src/gui/ with the main menu / menuwidget elements. While MenuWidget does subclass GUIObject it is able to be the parent of other GUIObjects like PopupBox, AlertBox, and even widget-like objects such as buttons, option boxes, list boxes, and progress bars.
For GUIObject types that subclass Container I have layout managers (FlowLayout for now -- actually could be renamed because it is more complex now) that automaticly calculate the position of child objects based on their individual alignments and the parent's "internal alignment" (couldn't think of a better name).
Ok, back to the topic...
Music player (and other menu elements) could be changed into GUIObject classes but I think the src/gui/ stuff is a bit premature for this type of change throughout Freevo. The layout manager(s) still need a lot of work as does the way we render/draw/clculate and don't have any concept of layers (which I will be working on very soon). All of this stuff is pretty CPU intentive, just take a look at the edit favorites screen I cooked up for the tv menu (time to merge this stuff to the head soon? -- maybe once I fix the layers bug in it).
Having said that it won't be hard to add simpler GUIObject classes to a menu, perhaps using a dumb layout manager that only consults a child's preset position. For example we may add a progress bar / circle to the idlebar for cd ripping. Actually the idlebar (and its elements) may be a good candidate for becoming a GUIObject since it is also a container for other plugins.
-Rob
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