rbutil - The Rockbox Utility needs testing

[X86]

the Rbutil does an error and it doesn't install themes even if they have been downloaded correctly,and also it doesn't show all the themes.

[Domonoky]

the Rbutil does an error and it doesn't install themes even if they have been downloaded correctly,and also it doesn't show all the themes.

can you give more info about the error ? Is there any additional info ? rbutil rejects to install themes which dont contain the .rockbox dir. ie they have a wrong directory structure in the zip.

And it doesnt show all the themes because rockbox-themes.org filters the themes which require patches out.

And to Bigbambi:
I will change this next time i commit something for rbutil :-)

[tdtooke]

Disregard this post, sorry.

[mincho]

This worked great on my h10 under windows xp! Thanks for this!!

As for improvments, more themes could be added, autodetect for non ipod players, and um  how about importing your old settings (like themes and cfg files)  from a previous install of rockbox, like an old .rockbox folder?  Just throwin some ideas at ya.

[tdtooke]

I have a question, might be stupid.  Everything is working ok for me with the exception of bin2c.c not compiling before you have it trying to use it.  I have a temp fix for this that works, just compiling it manually before building, I'm just thinking something in my setup must be wrong though.  I'm using codeblocks with mingw version 3.4.5.  Would me submitting a patch that clears out the compiler warnings you get be a bad or good idea?  Wouldn't change a single thing really, just taking care of a few comparisons of signed and unsigned and making sure static is the first thing mentioned in the method declaration if it's static, but it would make it *appear* cleaner.  I'm also toying with the idea of playing around with this to add support for unsupported builds with it downloading source code, patches from flyspray and sending calls to compile it.  Granted that's probably gonna be hell to implement and doesn't really belong in an official rbutil, but I thought those changes might be nice for say a patch on flyspray that would never be commited, just exist there for people that like that sort of thing.

[Domonoky]

Hi..

yes bin2c has to be compiled first, because it converts the images to cpp and h files.
I think the Make file for linux does this automagically, but i dont know how to do it in Code::Blocks.
But it isnt really a problem to compile it first. :-)

About the warnings, i think all of them are in external tools like ipodpatcher and i didnt want to change these.

About your idea to support custom builds, i dont think this belongs to rbutil, and its probably impossible to integrate, so that it works everywhere.

[tdtooke]

Quick question: Is it normal for rbutil to flash alot when creating talk files?

[Domonoky]

Yes, thats normal.
Its because it runs those programms to talk the text and to make the mp3s,
 in the background, and everytime it starts one it flickers.. :-)

but we will see hwo we can improve this in the new rbutil Qt Version. :-)

[jmdennis]

One thing that I found is the ipod color has the wrong spelling and is ipod colour.  I also noticed that on the lastest Windows version 0.3.2.6 that when I downloaded all the themes that it placed them in a .rockbox folder inside .rockbox.  I pointed it to .rockbox so that it would install into the .rockbox folder into the folders that it normally goes into.  I guess I should have just pointed to my ipod and let it do it's thing.  The mac version is behind the other versions and also takes a lot to select all the themes if you so desire as it does a pre-download so you can see what it looks like.  To select all of them you have to go through this each time.  I had an error while it was downloading the themes and all it showed me was error.  It did not give me enough information to know which one or what happened.

[GodEater]

Regarding spelling - Rockbox has always, and will continue to, use British English - so iPod Colour is the correct spelling.

[Febs]

True, but in the case of a model name (as opposed to the ordinary English use of the word), shouldn't we should use the manufacturer's spelling?  As far as I know, Apple uses the spelling "color."  

(We refer to it in the manual as the ipod "Color.")

[GodEater]

Perhaps - I've just done a bit of wayback machine searching of apple's uk site - and I can't see it called the iPod Color or iPod Colour - it was either just "iPod" or "iPod Photo".

[Llorean]

I tend to think of it as a proper noun, if anything, meaning "iPod Color" when called that. It's a somewhat unique case.

[Domonoky]

@jmdennis:

about the themes in the .rockbox dir:
rbutil asks you to point to your device, and not to your .rockbox dir, and it only checks if this location exists. So the problem is a user problem. :-)

about Mac version: this version is only behind, because some one has to compile those builds, and not everybody has a Mac. :-)

about your error: In the Error message there should be a "details" or "more" Button which gives you more information about the errors that happend. Without a detailed error message i cant fix any possible bugs.

And in general: We are now porting/ rewriting rbutil to use the Qt Framework instead of WxWidgets, so most of the effort is going in the new version, and its likely that those things and errors arent going to be fixed in the wx version. Instead we will replace it when the Qt Version is ready. So be patient and feel free to improve / test the Qt Version. :-)

[bluebrother]

I tend to think of it as a proper noun, if anything, meaning "iPod Color" when called that. It's a somewhat unique case.

In the manual those names are treated as nouns, so it becomes "Ipod Color". While the web site isn't exactly following this rules I'm wondering if we shouldn't the same in Rockbox Utility?

And in general: We are now porting/ rewriting rbutil to use the Qt Framework instead of WxWidgets, so most of the effort is going in the new version, and its likely that those things and errors arent going to be fixed in the wx version. Instead we will replace it when the Qt Version is ready. So be patient and feel free to improve / test the Qt Version. :-)

I put a windows binary of the current state online. It's a statically linked binary, thus (according to Trolltechs documentation) screen readers won't work with it -- we'll address that issue later. I'm trying to update that zip file from time to time so if you want to test look here:
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhcn/rockbox/rbutil/rbutilqt-static.zip