This patch is mainly intended to work out the async queue getting
bigger and bigger when skins cannot keep up with command processing.
Since flushing the queue is an infinite loop, this ends up in vlc
hanging (frozen GUI). This happens when skins are complex (many controls,
many timers, animated images, scrolling text, ...)

With this patch, new commands of a given type can now replace pending
commands not yet processed when that makes sense (e.g position, volume, ...).
The position is really the one responsible for overflooding the queue.

split allocation into a separate function to remove one level of indentation
split some overly long statements
factorize some bits

green line is still present at bottom of output

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Handles "\\hostname" properly.
On Windows, error out on "X:directory" instead of aborting. Looking up
the current directory of the specified drive letter would be a better,
though.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>

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>