Customize time to hold "play" before shutdown? (iPod 5G)

[AlexP]

For Virtual Keyboard see http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LoadableKeyboardLayouts

For editing keymaps, first stage is a development environment.  What OS do you use?

[Llorean]

There's an actual keymap file in the source for your player in /apps/keymaps, you just need to modify that and recompile your build. This is for redefining the keys, at least. Since you want to change the timeouts, I'm not sure where those are located. I would imagine that you could just leave "Stop" where it is and just shorten the timeouts on both of them. Since you haven't run into needing to use long-play for anything yet, it's not likely to interfere if you leave it around.

[copiesofcopies]

Ah, ok, I didn't know you could modify keyboard layouts.  I had a more fundamental interface redesign in mind, but this will definitely be helpful for the time being.

BigBambi: I use Ubuntu (Feisty, for now).  If you want to point me to a M to RTF so you don't have to walk me through the whole process, that's ok too.

[AlexP]

There's an actual keymap file in the source for your player in /apps/keymaps, you just need to modify that and recompile your build. This is for redefining the keys, at least. Since you want to change the timeouts, I'm not sure where those are located. I would imagine that you could just leave "Stop" where it is and just shorten the timeouts on both of them. Since you haven't run into needing to use long-play for anything yet, it's not likely to interfere if you leave it around.

Yes indeed, keymap was rather erroneous in my post.  However, to edit the delay you will still need a dev environment to compile the code once you have edited it.

BigBambi: I use Ubuntu (Feisty, for now).  If you want to point me to a M to RTF so you don't have to walk me through the whole process, that's ok too.

To set up the dev environment you want to

1)  install build-essential and subversion

2)  Check out the rockbox source with "svn co svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk rockbox"

3)  Build the crosscompilers with the rockboxdev.sh script in the tools directory of the downloaded source

Ah, ok, I didn't know you could modify keyboard layouts.  I had a more fundamental interface redesign in mind, but this will definitely be helpful for the time being.

We are open to ideas on the interface, but with the number of features, options, players etc. that Rockbox has/runs on, it isn't easy...

[copiesofcopies]

We are open to ideas on the interface, but with the number of features, options, players etc. that Rockbox has/runs on, it isn't easy...

I hate you guys...

What I had in mind shouldn't be too difficult to implement on a number of players, I don't think.  Maybe it would be best to draw a picture...

Grabbing the SVN trunk now.

[Llorean]

Be aware that Rockbox runs on targets with screens from 112x64 monochrome up to 320x240 and 240x320 16-bit color, as well as having one player that has a text-only screen that is a mere two lines tall.

If it's something that requires a picture be drawn, I imagine it contains visual elements, so these are things to be aware of (though obviously the text-only player has a lot of UI elements that are simplified forms of the bitmap display ones).

[copiesofcopies]

If it's something that requires a picture be drawn, I imagine it contains visual elements, so these are things to be aware of (though obviously the text-only player has a lot of UI elements that are simplified forms of the bitmap display ones).

Right... how is this done in other places?  Take for example the file list, which has customizable fonts and icons on the 5G ipod.  Is there just separate code for the less capable displays?

[Llorean]

There's only one less capable display, in that sense. The text-only one.