I've attached my own menu item to the hijack menu and if i select the item i can take over the display and draw on it, but how do i give the display back to the player?

I've cleared and closed the display, but than it's just black. Actually my process has even terminated. How do i tell hijack that i don't want the display any longer?

Thanks

rc = ioctl(fd, EMPEG_HIJACK_WAITMENU, NULL);

is the way to unbind from the display and menus. If you need to re-bind to the menus (so the app can be selected from the menu again) you need to do the above call followed by:

rc = ioctl(fd, EMPEG_HIJACK_WAITMENU, &menulabels);

But the latter is going to block your app until selected again. If you need stuff to happen in the background, you'll have to spawn a detached thread to do it.

That reads more like a suggestion than a patch.

Fortunately, Mark has occasionally been known to listen to suggestions, too.

The way it's done now is

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ioctl(fd, EMPEG_HIJACK_WAITMENU, NULL);

and you want it to look like this:

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ioctl(fd, EMPEG_HIJACK_EXIT, NULL);

?

I can fix that for you right now:

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#define EMPEG_HIJACK_EXIT EMPEG_HIJACK_WAITMENU

No, I get what he's saying. Your #define solution would break the existing WAITMENU ioctl. He wants a separate ioctl() for this particular situation. I just don't think it's that confusing as-is, so I'm not doing it.