This reverts commit 47e8817a.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Duraffort <ivoire@videolan.org>

text controls were far from being optimized
   - a notifyLayout was executed at creation of text control, leading
     to rebuilding the layout twice.
   - the init of the variable was done after the control was created
     which means still more rebuild of the layout.

This patch ensures that no rebuild is done at init since we are already in the
process of rebuilding the entire layout.

only refresh position if the value really changed w.r.t the control measure unit.

When an item gets sub-items, we have to run our own random-picking among
the new items.

It may segfault or create a broken image.

This reverts commit 989ec97a.

 Sadly, config_SaveConfigFile cannot be used that way as it will save randomly
modified settings as well (at least as long as config_Put* is in use in
the core/modules).

Adds support for the D2D API on Win7/Vista SP2 with Platform Update
Requires d2d1 contrib headers
Signed-off-by: Laurent Aimar <fenrir@videolan.org>

Qt/EPG: Try to display intelligently the short and long event description with the dedicated widgets.

It depends of the channels. Some use only the short one, others only the long one and others both.

http-interface: - changed logic so playlist is only downloaded initially and on modification of playlist

no longer re-downloads playlist on each item change (this was causing
significant delays (>10sec) in the http service with large playlists).. now,
the playlist UI is updated locally based on information returned from
status.xml
Signed-off-by: Ilkka Ollakka <ileoo@videolan.org>

large playlists can take >10 seconds to load. since the xmlhttp object is
common within the page, multiple /status.xml requests would occurr (1 per sec)
before the playlist was loaded cancelling the /playlist.xml request.. i moved
the xmlhttp request object to a global variable. it's now checked to see if
there are any outstanding/active requests before submitting a new request. -
improved playlist display of large playlists.
Signed-off-by: Ilkka Ollakka <ileoo@videolan.org>

Seriously, HD logs have 12000 of lines of logs because of that... This is beyond ridiculous.

This can be used to restart a plugin without going through the whole
module_need(). This only makes sense if you are sure that the plugin
will accept the object parameters. In other words, do not change any
object parameter that could influence the plugin probing decision.