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nickdima
July 6th, 2009, 10:58 AM
Can a window be displayed on top of the fullscreen playing video?
agentlame
July 6th, 2009, 11:00 AM
no. when boxee is in fullscreen it owns the screen.

boxee is written in opengl/sdl, which are primarily designed for gaming development. just like you can not place a windows over quake running in fullscreen, the same is true of boxee.
nickdima
July 6th, 2009, 11:28 AM
no. when boxee is in fullscreen it owns the screen.

boxee is written in opengl/sdl, which are primarily designed for gaming development. just like you can not place a windows over quake running in fullscreen, the same is true of boxee.

But how about the OSD? That shows on top of the video
agentlame
July 6th, 2009, 11:39 AM
it is not a 'window' it is part of the application.

think again of a video game, when you pause it, a menu comes-up over the game action. it is not a new window, merely a display overlay.
StevenR
July 7th, 2009, 02:32 AM
Then might it be possible to have the option to create custom overlays as part of our applications at some point? This would be useful for displaying alerts or something else while a video is displaying.
nickdima
July 7th, 2009, 07:31 AM
it is not a 'window' it is part of the application.

think again of a video game, when you pause it, a menu comes-up over the game action. it is not a new window, merely a display overlay.

Sorry for sounding confusing. I wasn't referring to a window of another applications running on the OS, but to a window of a boxee app as used by the API or a control for that matter.
agentlame
July 7th, 2009, 10:54 AM
ahhh.. i see.

i can't think of a way you could do it, with the current api.
(al la: iphone... no 'background apps')

your control of boxee stops when a person is no longer in your application. be it by them leaving it, or launching media.

i could be wrong, though.




there is a way to have a 'background' process/application via xbmc's script facility; but, people would no be able to install your app via app box, and would have to edit python files to make it auto-start. messy stuff.)
riegersn
July 7th, 2009, 09:46 PM
if you wanted to make it a secondary feature, if you press esc or back after playing a video boxee takes you back to the last window while playing the video in the background.

you can have a video window in your app, make it 1280x720 and overlay anything you want on top. however users would then loose control of playback. also there is that extra step involved when backing out of the original video.

just a thought, there currently is no real way to achieve what your asking.