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iriverH1xx - idea for the recording button (shortly pressed)
Rincewind:
--- Quote from: Llorean on August 06, 2007, 03:27:24 PM ---Meanwhile, I'd personally support having a short press of the Record button open a folder *other* than Browse CFG files. A hard-coded one that you can put whatever you want in (themes, cfg files, copies of plugins, EQ presets). It'd *almost* be a configurable menu, but not quite, would actually allow more flexibility than a configurable menu (you can change multiple settings at once), and doesn't actually exist as a custom menu at all.
Basically a very slight change on the original idea in this thread that brings the functionality beyond making it a customizable button, without the 'customizable' part. ;)
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That's a nice idea. I'd trade my patch for it :)
It would be very easy to implement this, just a few calls to rockbox_browse() in the right place...
People without a REC button would complain and want to have it too, but we could make this a context menu option for them. Personally, I would even go so far and replace the quick menu with it. The current items in the quick menu can become default entries.
(and then we have the REC button free again and it's back to square one *joking*)
Llorean:
I'd rather keep the quick menu how it is. It's technically broken right now, and when it works when you release the Menu button it should exit. This results in it basically being "button combinations" rather than a real menu, and very very quick to use.
But it could be added into either the Main menu "Browse User Folder" or Settings->"Browse User Folder" or something similar. I'm not sure about the context menu since it's not a context sensitive option.
Rincewind:
--- Quote from: Llorean on August 06, 2007, 05:12:54 PM ---I'd rather keep the quick menu how it is. It's technically broken right now, and when it works when you release the Menu button it should exit. This results in it basically being "button combinations" rather than a real menu, and very very quick to use.
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I don't understand what you mean with button combinations. I always get it wrong and accidentally change repeat when I wanted to change shuffle. Then I have to cycle through the repeat options and remember only to use the right button. Doesn't feel intuitive to me. I don't like it because you have to think everytime if you don't learn it by heart.
--- Quote ---But it could be added into either the Main menu "Browse User Folder" or Settings->"Browse User Folder" or something similar. I'm not sure about the context menu since it's not a context sensitive option.
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Yes, that makes more sense. The main menu is a fixed menu and doesn't change like the context menu. The entry should stay in root, though, otherwise it isn't a shortcut anymore.
Llorean:
When working properly, it'll be "Hold menu and press left to cycle through shuffle options, releasing menu returns to where you came from" rather than pressing menu a second time.
In theory if the status bar were always there, the menu itself wouldn't be needed (except for file view). If you've owned an H100, remember how there was a button that would change the Shuffle mode? D, A, D(Repeat) A(repeat) DA(repeat) or whatever? It should basically be thought of more like that, except that it requires two buttons to change the modes (one held, one pressed) rather than one.
Unfortunately, on the H100 menu has to be pressed a second time, because you can't combine Menu with stick motions. But for the players where it can work, this was the original way the screen worked, and it's a function that could use with fixing.
Davide-NYC:
--- Quote from: Rincewind on August 06, 2007, 05:27:53 PM ---Doesn't feel intuitive to me. I don't like it because you have to think everytime if you don't learn it by heart.
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Amen brother! I never liked that damned screen and never understood why it was there in the first place. Those settings belong in the settings menu with everything else that is a setting. The quick menu is my least liked part of Rockbox. It always felt like an Archos leftover to me.
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