Rockbox bootscreen delay

[firebane]

So I got the boot screen changed but it goes by a bit fast (I know this is intended) but if I wanted to add a bit of delay before loading the OS how or where would I go about doing this? Just looking for some pointers.

[Mikerman]

This had been posted previously in a thread:  how to add a delay to the boot/splashscreen, and how to have it pause until a button is pressed (I liked that one especially).

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6193.0

I tried the latter idea and couldn't get it to work for me.  Would be great to hear if/how these work for others.

For a pause of x seconds:

Yep, easy... Just add a sleep line in main.c in the function called app_main
so, change

Code:

void app_main(void)
{
    init();
    browse_root();
}

to

Code:

void app_main(void)
{
    init();
    sleep(HZ * x);
    browse_root();
}


where x is the no. of seconds delay you want.

For a wait:

Instead of the sleep() function you could try
Code:
get_action (CONTEXT_NONE,TIMEOUT_BLOCK);

This will wait for a button press before continuing to execute.

[firebane]

heh i searched high and low.. thanks.

i'll try and report back

..

Ok so the sim doesn't recognize the sleep function and doesn't pause, but when you put it to the ipod it works fine!

Thanks.

[Mikerman]

Did you try the pause-until-a-button-is-pressed method as well?  It wouldn't work for me earlier.

[firebane]

Ok so there is two options you can add a sleep(); and toss a time in if you want or you can use the get_action function and use the play button to continue and todo the following:

This is all modified in rockbox/apps/main.c @ line 126

Sleep Function
Before

Code: [Select]

{
  init();
  browse_root();
}

After

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{
  init();
  sleep(#); // # represents a number in seconds
  browse_root();
}

Button Press Code
Before

Code: [Select]

{
  init();
  browse_root();
}

After

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{
  init();
  get_action(BUTTON_PLAY,-1);
  browse_root();
}

[Mikerman]

Thanks, that's great--will check it out.

I think this is another nice security feature--put a "return me" notice on the opening splashscreen and add a time delay or stall, and it helps "remind" someone to return a found player.

[Mikerman]

Thanks, firebane, just tried doing this with the play button pause option (see above), but when compiling, I get an error message,

main.c:125: error: 'BUTTON_PLAY' undeclared (first use in this function)

I thought I did what was noted above--any suggestion?  If it's of any assistance, this is on an iRiver H1xx player.

edit:

I also just tried the alternate method, by adding the line (where noted):

sleep(5);

(I assume that I wasn't supposed to add the 2 slash lines--but if I am wrong, please let me know.)

This pauses the bootscreen sometimes, but not consistently (and actually, less than 50% of the time from a cold start)--I can't discern a pattern there.

Thanks--