GBPVR UI Elements pop-up

[boohiss]

I've been playing around with the GBPVR UI Elements for my YouTube plugin, and I think I have a decent grasp on how it works so far.

One last piece to the puzzle: popup windows. Kinda like this one:



I want a window to pop up after selected a list item with a few buttons for actions to take on the item selected (in my case, 'play' 'bookmark' and 'cancel') as well as display some text (in my case, title, description, length).

What is the best way to go about doing this?

[McBainUK]

Its all about "focus". Download the source for my plugins for examples.

The Libary does not currently support horizontal buttons, but feel free to add that functionality .

[boohiss]

Well that's fine, I really want vertical buttons anyway.

I understand the concept of 'focus' with your library. What I don't know is what type of element that a pop-up window is?

[nitrogen_widget]

Will there be an option to save a video to the HD if you like it?

[McBainUK]

What I don't know is what type of element that a pop-up window is?

It isnt an element, its more of another screen, which is drawn on top of the main screen when needed

Something like this in your plugin's render method would work:
...
render main screen elements
...
if showpopup = true then render popup screen elements
...

use a popup background that is the same size as the screen to avoid having to worry about 'click thrus'.

[boohiss]

Will there be an option to save a video to the HD if you like it?

Well, you can save YouTube videos directly, but only to FLV files, which could then be encoded to MPG, but that's more than I really want to deal with.

Instead, I'm using this concept of "bookmarking", which will just store the Title, URL, description, length, etc, of the YouTube video so that you don't have to go searching for it every time. Also, this takes up considerably less hard drive space. The only downside being that the video could be removed from YouTube someday.