What is CONFIG_CODEC == SWCODEC

[fed]

I am working through the code to try to figure out how to do my own mods. I can't figure out what 'CONFIG_CODEC == SWCODEC' means.

[Llorean]

It means "if this player is a software codec target", and software codec means any player which uses software to decode music, rather than a hardware decoder. Currently all non-Archos Rockbox players are software codec players.

[fed]

Thanks!

What about 'done = true'?  I suppose it means diffirent things in diffirent places in the code.  But I thought I'd ask anyway.

[safetydan]

The meaning is going to depend on exactly what the code is doing.

[Llorean]

A single = means assignment. It puts the value of the thing on the right inside the variable on the left. What this means in terms of what happens next depends entirely upon what code looks at that variable and what that code expects it to be.

[fed]

That's what I thought.  Thanks anyway.

I'm trying to find the main (or root) menu, to add a function to the rec button.  Do you know which file has this menu?  I have looked in main_menu.c, root_menu.c, and a bunch of others, but I can't seem to find it.

[Llorean]

What you probably really want are the files in /apps/keymaps. That's where you'd change what buttons do what in a given screen.

[fed]

I've figured that out so far.  I've even succesfully changed a couple of buttons in the rec screen, and added the function to recording.c.  Now, I'd like to add a button function to the main menu (the one that starts up when rockbox boots.  The one with 'Files, Database, Setting, Recording, ...).

Do you know where that file is?

[Llorean]

Are you just trying to find root_menu.c/.h in /apps?

[fed]

I tried that one, but I cannot find the switch statement to insert my new function case.

[fed]

Now that I look at the root_menu.h, it look slike the right one.  Only, it is in a diffirent format than the recording.c, so I don't know how to insert my new function.  

Where would I put it?

By the way, thanks for your help so far.

[Llorean]

Unfortunately, I can't really help you further. I've got no experience here, really.

[fed]

Thanks anyway.

Any idea who or where I could ask?

[Llorean]

If you show up in the IRC channel at the right time, someone might know.

[fed]

Thanks.  

Until next,

Fed