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 CREDITS Bjorn Bringert Ebjorn@bringert.netE xosd-1.0.x fixes Etan Reisner Ederyni@eden.rutgers.eduE 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