Gigabeat "Plus Touch" convert to real buttons

[johnson4]

Has it crossed anyone else's mind to get rid of the plus touch and replace it with 5 real buttons with some feedback? I love the gigabeat with RB but the "Plus" currently servers no other purpose. Can anyone comment from a hardware/software stand point whether it would be at all possible?

[markun]

The touchpad consists of 13 separate buttons of which we only check 5. I'm sure you could replace it with 5 real buttons. Good luck.

[Mad Cow]

A bit off topic here, but why does rockbox only use 5 of them? Developer choice or some software limitation?

[GodEater]

Developer choice really. No-one's bothered to do anything else with them.

Really the only sensible choice is to implement some sort of "drag" interface on them, since they're too close together to assign individual button pushes to.

[Mad Cow]

Developer choice really. No-one's bothered to do anything else with them.

Really the only sensible choice is to implement some sort of "drag" interface on them, since they're too close together to assign individual button pushes to.

I think it would be better just to have all the buttons on each part do the same function. It's sometimes annoying how only the outer sensors do anything, I have a case for mine that makes reaching those outer ones difficult, and the others do nothing, so I have a really hard time using it in the case.

[Llorean]

I'd say enable most, not al so there is a gap between center and directions. Otherwise ite may become very easy to accidentaly hit the wrong function. I also have no problems with the default setup so I'm not sure it's a good idea to change it for imperfect cases unless it doesn't interfere at with non-case use.

[Mad Cow]

Yea I'd be for making the 2 outer pads work and leaving the inner one. But it doesn't really matter anyway, I rarely use the case because it makes my brick even bigger.