Java Development

[barbalatm]

Hello guys.

Does anyone have experience with image painting on a video container?

Bellow there is a sample image of what I meant.

Thanks for any help.

[MSohm]

The BlackBerry Media player and JSR 135 implementation does not support drawing on top of a video that is playing.

[mreed]

Even if the video is not fullscreen (just a field the size of its manager), and the manager paints manually after painting the video field?

[MSohm]

Yes, this also applies when the video is playing in non full screen mode.

[dev_inc]

In the Blackberry 9000, if you press the trackball while the video is in motion, the video is resized and a Field Manager (I'm assuming its a field manager) for play, pause, next clip etc slides up.

In the Storm, the video still plays in the background (no resizing)) but this Field manager slides over the video.

In view of not being able to draw over a playing video, how is this behaviour explained.

My concern, is that I'm trying to develop a media player like application, so the user can press a track ball to give pause/play options like in the blackberry bold 9000. default player, but i would love to get a semi transparent filed manager with these buttons slide up like in the storm.

What would be a good way to go about implementation of such a UI.

Regards.

[peter_strange]

Would a transparent screen over the top of the video playing screen work - with a buttons sliding up the transparent screen.  Just a thought, never tried it. 

[rcmaniac25]

Just a thought as well. Though it would be very slow if you created a custom field and had the video field draw to a Bitmap you can then draw on top of the Bitmap and then display the modified video screen.