NAME X::Osd - Perl extension to the X On Screen Display library (xosd) SYNOPSIS use X::Osd; my $osd = X::Osd->new("-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-250-*-*-*-*-*-*","Green",3,XOSD_top,1,2); $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, 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_bottom Exportable functions *new(font,colour,timeout,position,offset,shadow_offset,[number_lines=1]) where pos is one of (XOSD_top, XOSD_bottom) * string(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) * hide() * show() * set_colour(color) * set_font(font) * set_offset(offset) * set_pos(pos) where pos is one of (XOSD_top, XOSD_bottom) * set_shadow_offset(shadow_offset) * set_timeout(timeout) * is_onscreen() * wait_until_no_display() * scroll(lines) * get_number_lines() AUTHOR Philippe M. Chiasson CREDITS Bjorn Bringert xosd-1.0.x fixes VERSION This is revision $Id: Osd.pm,v 1.8 2002/08/26 17:05:55 gozer Exp $ COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2002 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 the perl manpage Home & Author of XOSD http://www.ignavus.net/software.html