sansa e200: using the recording button as a lock/unlock

[tata668]

Would that be possible? To map a long press on the recording button to "lock/unlock" when playing a song?

I'm new to RockBox and I love it! The only thing that bugs me with the sansa e270 is the lock button that is hard to use when the player is in your pocket. If it was possible to long press on the recording button to lock/unlock, that would be fantastic! The only thing I wouldn't lock then is the scroll wheel for the volume.

Thanks to everyone involved in RockBox.

[saratoga]

It'd take some effort, but you could probably change the code to do that.  At least I don't think theres anything special about the hold switch.

[tata668]

It'd take some effort, but you could probably change the code to do that.  At least I don't think theres anything special about the hold switch.

I guess I have two options: taking assembly lessons or pray! ;-)

Thanks for the reply, it's interesting to see it's feasible.

[saratoga]

The button code (and almost all of rockbox) is actually written in c, so you don't need to know assembly.

[tata668]

I may take a look then..

But if a good developer is willing to do it for a donation, I would be interested. (sorry if this is agains the rules to ask that)

[pixelma]

I don't know how easy it is to make targets that have a "hardware hold" (a switch) also have a "software hold". For some reason I thought that those are handled quite differently in the code but I could very well be wrong.

But there already is code to have such a software hold for the Archos targets because those don't have a switch. This hold is only active in the WPS and works fairly well. Maybe you can adapt some code from there.

[JdGordon]

yep, just enable the software hold lock code and set up a key for it... 10min work.. and no, this wont be considered for svn