A question aboute OSD

[SteveV]

Hi Balin,
Welcome to the Girder Forum!

Is there a way to disable the background and change the color of the text?

Yes but you'll need to download and install (in the ...Girder3pluginssoftware folder)Popup OSD version 2.0 (http://www.girder.nl/download.php?Link=142). You can change text color, background color, border, position, etc. The settings should be pretty self-explainatory.

Good luck -- Steve

[SteveV]

On 2001-12-07 02:19, mrichmon wrote:
If you are running a program such as a TV receiver or DVD player, you can get transparent backgrounds by setting the background colour to be the same as your overlay colour. This is often a very dark green.

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip.

-- Steve

[SteveV]

On 2001-12-20 00:45, Carmero wrote:
We can use the "printscreen" key to determine any overlay color of any program.
(Printscreen - Open MS Paint or other similar software - Paste - Pick Color - OK).


Excellent suggestion--Thanks

--Steve

[Mark F]

mrichman - The font can be selected via the "OSD Font" tab under file/settings. Sorry it took so long to tell you this.

[Mark F]

Michael - I hadn't thought of using the overlay color as the background. GREAT idea! Could you please put something about this into the tips and tricks section?

[Carmero]

Dear MarkF!
Is it possible to make a transparend OSD background
under Win2000/XP even if?

[Carmero]

We can use the "printscreen" key to determine any overlay color of any program.
(Printscreen - Open MS Paint or other similar software - Paste - Pick Color - OK).

[neojames2k]

there is a OSD plugin for winamp, if you just search in the plugins section for OSD you'll find it, it took me a while to get it working well but since i downloaded the latest version of winamp it seems to work fine

[JOHNISAR]

HI,
Try this numper for color 1052704

Make a new form in Accses RIGHT CLIK to set the properties input the number in color dialog box and then select it to open the color selector you will see the color with the settings (red,green ...)copy these settings to girder's (osd background color selector)same window and you will have the color.
This works with dscaler!
Thanks

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[Balin]

Hey, girder rules thanks for making it, but ive got one comment about the OSD.

Is there a way to disable the background and change the color of the text?

Like, when i'm playing a game and I want to turn my volume up and down, this big black box appears in the middle of the screen and its kinda distracting.

thanks for the help,

--balin

[Balin]

thanks !!! thats really a big help

1 more question though: is there a way to pull the currently playing song from an mp3 player (lets say winamp) and put it thru a OSD each time the song changes? that would be great for scanning thru songs while in a game

thanks again

--balin

[mrichmon]

The updated OSD plugin is great! But, I'd like to make a couple of feature requests for
future versions:

* a transparent background option,
* a font selection option,
* a popup size control

The first two are self explainatory. The third one comes from the behavior of the OSD if you do not select "shrink window to smallest size". In this mode, the OSD overs almost the entire screen. It would be nice if this could be controlled.

Thanks again for writing this plugin.

...michael richmond

[mrichmon]

If you are running a program such as a TV receiver or DVD player, you can get transparent backgrounds by setting the background colour to be the same as your overlay colour. This is often a very dark green.

_________________
Michael

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[mrichmon]

Hmmm, and I thought that behaviour was "as designed". :smile:

I've only tried it with DVD Station and FlyVideo since these are the only programs I have that use overlays. I'll write something up this week as a howto. It would help if people would post the default overlay settings for other software so I can include a relevant table.

[mrichmon]

Poking around a bit more with other programs I've found that Magenta is also commonly used as the overlay colour. I expect automatically picking up the overlay colour in use is next to impossible.

But, how difficult would it be to allow a colour to be set into a register? This way an isForeground test could set the appropriate overlay colour into a register depending on the program currently running. Then, the OSD plugin could be set to use the contents of the register as the background colour. :cool: