On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:46 AM, Stef Coene wrote:
The main problem is that's is allmost impossible to do this with
php (or any
other language). You can put images together (like the background
and the
watermark), but adding text and other stuff so it looks like a
"real" mythtv
menu is not possible. Or there must be a way to launch
mythfrontend and take
a screenshot from a webpage.....
Rather than trying to build a composite image from a background,
graphic elements, and text, could CSS2 positioning be used instead?
For example, you would set the background of a <div
class="background"> element to be the background of the MythTV
screen. Next you would use a php function to construct a MythTV
button but putting another graphic into a <div class="button"> with
text contained in that <div> and use absolute positioning for the
whole <div class="button"> element to place it at the appropriate
location location on the <div class="background">.
Obviously this wouldn't be fully cross browser compatible but it
would work with Mozilla and maybe even IE6.
You might also need to keep some meta data about the elements you're
laying out. For example, there maybe a meta data based rule that say
only 5 <div class="buttons"> from the theme XYZ can fit on a <div
class="background"> because of the button height but from the theme
ABC you could position up to 6 <div class="buttons">.
--
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AIM: BlueCame1
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