Can Roku generate a JPG or PNG file?
Let me start with the premise of using roGridScreen and wanting to show text within each "poster" for the categories/items. SDPosterUrl/HDPosterUrl properties for each item instead expect URL to an im...
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"EnTerr" wrote:"RokuJoel" wrote:
The request is already in the system, just followed up, the more really useful use-cases for this sort of thing there are, the higher likelihood of it actually happening.
For my case any of the two things will do: a) ability to overlay text on top (or instead) of poster image background or b) ability to save bitmaps to PNG/JPG (or whatever pleases poster screens). In my particular scenario this is to browse file system but i suppose others can chime in with other cases when it was needed.
To receive a raw framebuffer from a VNC server fro display as a VNC Client. I've been waiting on this one for quite a while....
Also, librokudev's PNG libs won't work well for this. PNG's require compression, and while the library does allow for arbitrary PNG chunk creation (to some extent), it does not support compression itself. It's main use was in KidPaint to change the pallete indexed color values (separate, non-compressed chunk of the file), thus changing PNG image colors without needing to pack/unpack the image itself.
