Reorder menu items

[shoe]

You can search for "MAKE_MENU" in the .c files in the apps/menus folder.  Also "MAKE_ONPLAY_MENU" in apps/onplay.c.  The menus are easy to recognize, you can just shift around and/or comment out the entries to fit your preferences.

Here is a question, if anyone knows the answer:  I have an ipod 4g grayscale and I dont use the recording feature.  I used to get rid of all the recording stuff by simply commenting out the line
    #define HAVE_RECORDING
in the file \firmware\export\config-ipod4g.h.  This used to work, but now if I do a build with this commented out, my player freezes on the start-up rockbox logo screen.  The simulator doesnt show any problems, by the way.  Anyone know why this is?

[Rincewind]

Here is a question, if anyone knows the answer:  I have an ipod 4g grayscale and I dont use the recording feature.  I used to get rid of all the recording stuff by simply commenting out the line
    #define HAVE_RECORDING
in the file \firmware\export\config-ipod4g.h.  This used to work, but now if I do a build with this commented out, my player freezes on the start-up rockbox logo screen.  The simulator doesnt show any problems, by the way.  Anyone know why this is?

I don't have an answer, but a way to find the solution: Go backwards through the revisions and find the commit that breaks for you. (You can use a bisecting method, this way you only have to test about 10 revisions to find the one) Then look at the diff. Maybe someone forgot to add an #ifdef HAVE_RECORDING somewhere.

[shoe]

Ok thats what I'll do, good idea.  It takes me about half an hour to do a build, I should probably upgrade my computer one of these days.  I guess I'll look through the commits and find some strategic points to check first.  Thanks.

[moriez]

You can search for "MAKE_MENU" in the .c files in the apps/menus folder.  Also "MAKE_ONPLAY_MENU" in apps/onplay.c.  The menus are easy to recognize, you can just shift around and/or comment out the entries to fit your preferences.

Shoe, im a newbie at this thing but I really think the menus in rockbox should be customizable. Strange its not included like it is in the iPod firmware. Anyway, can u explain this again in layman words please? Where do I start?

Thank you.

[GodEater]

Shoe, im a newbie at this thing but I really think the menus in rockbox should be customizable. Strange its not included like it is in the iPod firmware.

Where the heck is that feature in the iPod firmware - I must have missed it.

Anyway, can u explain this again in layman words please? Where do I start?
Thank you.

You really need to go a tutorial or two on programming in C - otherwise you won't really know what's going on.

[moriez]

In my Ipod you can choose through 'Settings'->'Main Menu' what options you want to see and what you dont want to see. I thought this is what is being discussed here? I would like that for Rockbox as well.

And I didnt notice that shoe is talking about programming in C there.

[GodEater]

And I didnt notice that shoe is talking about programming in C there.

He is.

[moriez]

Well that must explain why I didnt pick that up. So to conclude this: there is no such option or workaround?

[GodEater]

There is no such option, and no plan for such an option.

Rockbox is complicated enough to support as it is with it's frankly gargantuan array of options and menus. Letting users reorganise them would basically make it unsupportable.