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Broken REC button, how to start new recording?
yapper:
--- Quote from: Llorean on September 30, 2009, 04:43:23 PM ---What's the point of committing this to fix one person's button problem? Is something else gained from this other than "confusing all the users who've gotten used to the current controls"?
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If I'm understanding this correctly, the OP has a REC button that doesn't work, so the proposed change wouldn't fix his issue at all as he would no longer be able to start/pause recordings.
Llorean:
--- Quote from: yapper on September 30, 2009, 09:45:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: Llorean on September 30, 2009, 04:43:23 PM ---What's the point of committing this to fix one person's button problem? Is something else gained from this other than "confusing all the users who've gotten used to the current controls"?
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If I'm understanding this correctly, the OP has a REC button that doesn't work, so the proposed change wouldn't fix his issue at all as he would no longer be able to start/pause recordings.
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Odd. If his "Rec" button is broken, and that prevents him starting as things are now, swapping the two buttons should allow him to start. There's either a typo in the description of what they'll do after the swap (possible) or his build already possibly has swapped buttons?
pixelma:
As yapper said, that patch wouldn't help him at all (even makes it worse as currently he can start/stop recordings with the Play button) - but - I guess the reason, petur posted it here, is that possibly the Rec button is not broken, and the original poster just thinks so since the button does not start a recording anymore (code-wise) but it used to for years.
The question is if the button is really broken, maybe you can check other functions you usually do with Rec on the H100 (a quick look into the manual - maybe the deleting of characters on the input line of the virtual keyboard, etc).
If you read the initial patch description, there is a keymap issue on the H100/H300 and the Iaudios introduced with r21034. Basically - for years there have been two ways (two buttons) to start a recording: the button to split the recording could also be used to start the recording, additionally to the normal start/stop. The function that split also starts recording was removed in mentioned revision to avoid keymap problems on other targets. On the targets the patch addresses, split was on the Rec button and start/stop on Play so you can't start recording with Rec anymore - which is quite unintuitive, which is why the patch proposes swapping the actions (Play would then be the split button).
petur:
The OP's REC button isn't broken, the functionality was reassigned without asking the recording community.
Claiming he should just read the manual isn't fair because it was a KNOWN and DOCUMENTED functionality that was altered. Yes the manual was changed too, but who goes to read a manual about something he's been using - with success - for years? It's easy to claim he should have after you know all the facts.
I really want to revert this functionality change. From reading TapersSection, there's an active firmware distribution going on to hand everybody old builds. If all tapers are reverting to old builds, we might as well remove recroding functionality as it won't be missed much.
And I am particulary pissed off by MarcGuay for misinterpreting my comment that "we do not need two buttons to the the same" meant "remove the functionality that makes REC start a recording".
This whole mess started because of a problem with keymaps on ipods. Who the hell uses ipods to record anyway? 2 users? Should that mess with the targets that are really used for recording?
*shakes head*
Llorean:
Well, it needs to work on both iPods and iRiver. You'll not I misunderstood the situation (and firmly am in favour of preserving whatever behaviour people are used to).
Why can't the functionality be mapped to two keys on iRiver and only one on iPod?
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