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random folder navigation
yegods:
not sure if this belongs here, or in the user interface forum, but i'm sure it'll be moved if it's inappropriate here.
my question is... given that the random folder navigation is part of the Rockbox software, why do we have to use a "plugin" to initialize it? in fact, i had to go into the code, just to find out why the feature wasn't working as advertized.. i didn't see the description of how to create the "folder_advance_list.dat" in the manual. also, why is the format of the .dat file not human readable/editable? is this an unfinished feature?
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: yegods on August 29, 2007, 03:53:40 PM ---my question is... given that the random folder navigation is part of the Rockbox software, why do we have to use a "plugin" to initialize it?
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because of code size. We want the core to be small, and a feature used that rarely isn't needed to be part of the core.
--- Quote ---i didn't see the description of how to create the "folder_advance_list.dat" in the manual.
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Then this is an issue in the manual and should get added ;)
--- Quote ---also, why is the format of the .dat file not human readable/editable?
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Binary formats are usually smaller, easier to parse and quicker. It's not unfinished.
yegods:
--- Quote ---Binary formats are usually smaller, easier to parse and quicker. It's not unfinished.
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then i know a nifty addition someone (maybe me) can add to that plugin... the ability to export and import the file for hand editing. anyone interested?
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: yegods on August 29, 2007, 04:42:07 PM ---then i know a nifty addition someone (maybe me) can add to that plugin... the ability to export and import the file for hand editing. anyone interested?
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Most developers hang around on irc instead of the forums, so you most likely won't get much dev-response here. But I think it's a reasonable idea, and if someone / you post a patch to the tracker there shouldn't be much objections to accepting it -- as it's a plugin it doesn't add to the core size ;)
Mikerman:
--- Quote from: bluebrother on August 29, 2007, 04:27:40 PM ---because of code size. We want the core to be small, and a feature used that rarely isn't needed to be part of the core.
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I think that this feature may be used more than might be thought--I use it continually, basically as a shuffle for albums, which is how I listen to music.
(And, of course, the original inquiry suggests that the feature may not be known by some and so might be used more if it were more widely known.) Just my humble thoughts.
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