[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] OSD Menu

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:22:47PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> Hi Gabucino,
> 
> on Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:53:17 +0200 you wrote:
> 
> > > Then run mplayer -menu some_movies .... 
> > Kewl stuff!! Can't wait to see it working.
> > I'd suggest the file loader should support jumping on file depending on
> > key pressed, so when I'm in loader I press backspace for prev dir, press
> > "g" and the selector jumps on the first file which name starts with "g", etc..
> 
> Sound like a good idea but ... I want to have this fully usable without keyboard
> (ie. with a remote or smthg like this), that's why i stuck to a minimal number of
> actions. To achive what you describe that would need to 'grab' the keyboard
> wich requier a hack in the input code. And then hardcode the key/actions
> bindings when the user enter this mode. Any suggestions are welcome.

Perhaps mplayer's keybinding system should be enhanced, so that you
can bind actions for certain states that override the default action
for a button. This would be really nice for use with dvdnav too, if
anyone ever cares about that.

Rich