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 <gozer@cpan.org>

CREDITS
     Bjorn Bringert E<lt>bjorn@bringert.netE<gt> xosd-1.0.x fixes
     Etan Reisner E<lt>deryni@eden.rutgers.eduE<gt> 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
    <spoonboy@ignavus.net>