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.. title: New Output Display for 2.x
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.. slug: 2010/08/28/new-output-display-for-2x
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.. date: 2010-08-28 16:08:47 UTC
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.. description:
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Following 2 months of work, the display and text rendering code has been
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replaced. Due to the magnitude of the change there may still be bugs, so
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please report them in the usual way.
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These changed allow a number of significant new features to become
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available:
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- Text over video now works correctly.
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- Changeable image and video backgrounds now have a proper start and
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finish.
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- Text enhancements are now available like colours and styles (bold,
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italic, etc).
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- Spell checker for songs and custom slides.
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Unfortunately we've had to remove two theme features as they are no
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longer possible: transparent backgrounds, which was an early attempt to
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implement text over video, and indentation for line wrapping. Any
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transparent themes will automatically be converted to a black
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background.
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Also note that themes may now display slightly differently as we are
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using a different display technology.
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To access the new text enhancements, edit either a song or a custom
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slide and you'll see a new menu has been added to the right-click
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context menu of the edit box. This will allow tags to be inserted as a
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pair or wrapped round selected text. We will no doubt implement a nice
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WYSIWYG editor in a future release. Eventually we'll even allow the user
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to define their own tags, so that they can add styles to their slides.
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From a developer's point of view to code is now much simpler and easier
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to maintain going forward. The new code is based on a web browser so
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HTML tags now can be added to text for display. Tags are implemented
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using a non-HTML tagging mechanism, so that it is easier to work with
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the tags and the text.
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As an additional bonus, I have added a spellcheck to the songs and
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custom editors. It makes use of the PyEnchant libraries, so Linux users
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will need to add "python-enchant" (Fedora and Ubuntu) from their code
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repositories, and Windows users will have to download the library
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from http://www.rfk.id.au/software/pyenchant/download.html. The builds
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will include this library automatically.
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The screenshot you see here of the development team's favourite song is
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an example of what we can achieve.
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