I'd like a keystroke to display info on current Aerial video WITHOUT disrupting the video!

Gruberman commented 5 years ago

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Description of issue / Feature request

When I come back to my office and see an Aerial video saver playing, it's usually after the 10 seconds of 'text display info' has happened; I don't have text info set to ALWAYS because I usually don't want to see anything but the video. However, I'd like to get info on what I'm looking at on a case by case basis ("hmm… I wonder what THAT is!") before it changes to the next video saver - is there a keystroke I can hit to display current info without disrupting the screensaver itself, then hit again to make it go away? Thanks!

glouel commented 5 years ago

HI @Gruberman

So right now this is not available but we are working on exactly that here : https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/pull/812

No idea when it will be available though.

As a workaround In the meantime, you could go into Aerial's settings, go to the Text tab and change 10 seconds to Always.

hughlilly commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Could I add a suggestion to this please? I have the Location info display timeout set to 10s, and have this option set in System Preferences:

Is it possible to display the Location info while the password modal is displayed? In other words, if I move the mouse, the password entry modal appears, and I'd like for the Location info to be displayed then. If I type my password and press enter, the screensaver stops. If I press Cancel, the screensaver continues, at which point I'd like the Location info to once again disappear.

Additionally, I don't understand why Location is the only Info segment that has a 10-second option; to my way of thinking one ought to be able to choose to display any or all of the other kinds of OSD items for 10 seconds (or, ideally, any integer value as decided by the user).

Thank you.

glouel commented 4 years ago

Hi @hughlilly !

Is it possible to display the Location info while the password modal is displayed? In other words, if I move the mouse, the password entry modal appears, and I'd like for the Location info to be displayed then. If I type my password and press enter, the screensaver stops. If I press Cancel, the screensaver continues, at which point I'd like the Location info to once again disappear.

So, as far as I remember, we have 0 control about this. I don't think we're notified at all that a login attempt is in progress as a screensaver. The login process is a separate process in macOS and those things are quite independent so there's not much we can do here.

I'll have a look just in case but with Catalina restrictions I'm not super optimistic !

Additionally, I don't understand why Location is the only Info segment that has a 10-second option; to my way of thinking one ought to be able to choose to display any or all of the other kinds of OSD items for 10 seconds (or, ideally, any integer value as decided by the user).

So, just to explain the rationale behind it, the location information is usually a series of timestamps in a video, with a description (on some of the newer videos though, like the sea ones, it's just one at the very beginning !). So the idea is, when that time in the video comes (30s, 48s, etc...), we display that string. What the 10s/always does is for how long that string stays on screen, just 10 sec or until the next one comes in. That's where this comes from.

Now, for something like a clock, what would 10s mean ? Since we don't have a series of timestamps unlike for location, would that be just 10s at the beginning of the video ? At the start of the screensaver ? That's why they are always on screen right now..

Sidenote, I did add the label mentioning the sandbox limitation regarding the original issue a while back, to clarify just in case, we no longer can detect keypresses in Aerial in Catalina so that type of feature is on hold.

hughlilly commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't realised that the labels appeared at certain times in the videos, not just at the start. Yes, I was thinking that the clock might appear for 10s from the start of the screensaver.

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