SOLVED - Is there a way to modify the menu options?

[drabina]

I have Sansa e250R player with Rockbox installed using RockboxUtility 1.0.3. Firmware works great and I like it a lot. One thing I would like to change is to disable some menu options. For example in Database menu I do not want to see all the options (Year, Track, User Rating, etc) as I do not use them. They just make the UI cluttered.

Is there a way to modify what gets displayed on the screen?

Thanks

[AlexP]

Yes, you can set up the database to display exactly what you want:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DataBase

[bzavala]

Correct me if I'm wrong...

But to "disable" those extra menu items he's talking about, he'd need to either:

1) edit the .rockbox\tagnavi.config file which will get replaced everytime he installs a new SVN, or

2) create  a new .rockbox\tagnavi_custom.config with only the options he wants to see.

But if he goes with option # 2, the Menu will display the contents of the tagnavi_custom file first, AND the contents of the tagnavi.config file.

At least, this is how it displays on my iPod... looks like at some point, the tagnavi_custom used to replace the tagnavi contents.


Ben

[pixelma]

You can get it to only display the content of your tagnavi_custom.config. This is described in the wiki page which was linked in the previous post. I also remember reading about this here (in the forums) not long ago, maybe last week...

[drabina]

Thanks for the info. I have tried to copy the tagnavi.config, rename it tagnavi_custom.config and delete some options in the file but that messed up the Rockbox system. All I got was garbage on the screen when the Sansa rebooted. Will have to play with that little more.

[AlexP]

Correct me if I'm wrong...

2) create  a new .rockbox\tagnavi_custom.config with only the options he wants to see.

But if he goes with option # 2, the Menu will display the contents of the tagnavi_custom file first, AND the contents of the tagnavi.config file.

At least, this is how it displays on my iPod... looks like at some point, the tagnavi_custom used to replace the tagnavi contents.

You are indeed wrong.  As pixelma says you have to remove the line to include the original menu, specifically: '%include "/.rockbox/tagnavi_custom.config"'

[LinusN]

I was under the impression that you could use the %root_menu directive to replace the root menu in tagnavi_custom.config.

[drabina]

I have played a little more with the custom config file and I had to remove include line from the custom config that loads itself. This fixed the problem and I was able to modify the standard config file to only show the entries I need.

Thanks to all for replying.

[bzavala]

The reason why the options on my custom config file AND the default config file were being displayed as the Database options, is because on both files I kept the main menu as "main".

So on the custom file, I renamed my main menu to "main_ben":

%menu_start "main_ben" "Ben's Music"

and then changed the %root_menu line from:

%root_menu "main"

to

%root_menu "main_ben"

Now the options from he default config file are not displayed anymore...

So LinusN was right!!


thanks guys!


Ben