NAME

X::Osd - Perl extension to the X On Screen Display library (xosd)

SYNOPSIS

  use X::Osd;
  my $osd = X::Osd->new(NULL, 2);
  $osd->set_font("-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-*");
  $osd->set_colour("Green");
  $osd->set_timeout(3);
  $osd->set_pos(XOSD_top);
  $osd->set_align(XOSD_right);
  $osd->set_horizontal_offset(0);
  $osd->set_vertical_offset(10);
  $osd->set_shadow_offset(2);

  $osd->string(0,'Hello World!');
  $osd->percentage(0,56);
  $osd->slider(0,34);

DESCRIPTION

XOSD displays text on your screen, sounds simple right? The difference is it is unmanaged and shaped, so it appears transparent. This gives the effect of an On Screen Display, like your TV/VCR etc..

It currently supports 3 type of writes, string for simple text, printf formatted text, slider and percentage display.

You need to have libxosd installed. You can get it from http://www.ignavus.net/software.html

EXPORT

None by default.

Exported constants

  XOSD_top
  XOSD_middle
  XOSD_bottom
  XOSD_left
  XOSD_center
  XOSD_right

Exportable functions

• create(disp, number_lines);

• string(line,string)

• printf(line, string)

• percentage(line,percentage)

          where percentage is between 0 and 100

• slider(line,percentage)

          where percentage is between 0 and 100

• get_colour(red,green,blue)

• get_shadow_colour(red,green,blue)

• get_outline_colour(red,green,blue)

• hide()

• show()

• set_bar_length(osd, lenght)

• set_colour(color)

• set_shadow_colour(shadow_colour)

• set_outline_colour(outline_colour)

• set_font(font)

• set_vertical_offset(offset)

• set_horizontal_offset(offset)

• set_pos(pos)

  where pos is one of (XOSD_top, XOSD_middle, XOSD_bottom)

• set_align(align)

  where align is one of (XOSD_left, XOSD_center, XOSD_right)

• set_shadow_offset(shadow_offset)

• set_outline_offset(outline_offset)

• set_timeout(timeout)

• is_onscreen()

• wait_until_no_display()

• scroll(lines)

• get_number_lines()

AUTHOR

Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@cpan.org>

CREDITS

 Bjorn Bringert E<lt>bjorn@bringert.netE<gt> xosd-1.0.x fixes
 Etan Reisner E<lt>deryni@eden.rutgers.eduE<gt> provided a patch for new xosd faatures

VERSION

This is revision $Id: Osd.pm,v 1.17 2003/07/01 12:52:19 gozer Exp $

CVS The CVS repository of X::Osd is avaliabe thru anoncvs at:

 $> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ectoplasm.org:/home/anoncvs login
 password: anoncvs
 $> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ectoplasm.org:/home/anoncvs co X-Osd

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Philippe M. Chiasson. All rights reserved. This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perl

Home & Author of XOSD http://www.ignavus.net/software.html <spoonboy@ignavus.net>