[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH]s - tidying of pause message

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Jun 29 23:13:53 CEST 2003


Alex Sisson writes:
 >  --- Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote: > Alex
 > Sisson writes:
 > >  > These patches (one for each help/*.h) make the
 > > pause
 > >  > message not go on the next line and all a
 > > standard
 > >  > format of === $WORD_FOR_PAUSE ===.
 > > 
 > > OK, does not sound bad, but in help_mp-en.h, it is
 > > defined as follows:
 > > 
 > >   #define MSGTR_Paused "\n================= PAUSED
 > > =================\r"
 > > 
 > > So I think the it should be more than three '='
 > > signs on each side of
 > > $WORD_FOR_PAUSE.  Could you redo your patch
 > > following this suggestion?
 > > I will gladly apply it then.
 > 
 > I made it shorter, because when playing audio files
 > the stats are shorter, so the pause line has to be
 > shorter other wise you get unerased ==== at the eol.
 > i guess i could probably add a few more but not as
 > many as currently.

You have a point here.  It does definitely look better this way when
playing audio files.  What about this:

  =====  PAUSED  =====

Other languages just should not use more than 23 characters, since the
status line is 23 characters long with audio files.

Diego



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