wheel for racing

[fojam]

a lot of mp3 players have the scrolling wheel thing.

a new plugin for rockbox could be a racing game that uses mp3 player wheels as the steering wheel.
the car would automatically go, you would just lke have to avoid obstactles and things

[karashata]

It's a nice idea, but what about everybody who owns a DAP without a scroll wheel..? We wouldn't be able to do anything with a game like that...

Though, I suppose the keymap could be altered for all those targets to use left and right keypresses rather than a scrollwheel...

Though that would still potentially pose problems with DAPs without a reasonable button layout for left and right keypresses (off the top of my head I can't think of any though...)

[fojam]

you could adapt the controls to whatever kind of buttons they have

I mean a new plugin would be great. How come they never make any new plugins?

[karashata]

Rockbox is a replacement firmware for digital audio players, therefore development primarily focuses on such. Plugins are created more by interested individuals who have some free time and programming experience and want to contribute something to the project.

[fojam]

well im not any good at coding. do you know where i could find someone to make a .rock file of it for the fuze 2?

[karashata]

Well, I'd say your best hope is that someone comes across this thread and decides that something like that would be an interesting addition to Rockbox.

Considering no one's volunteered anything yet, though, I'd say your chances of getting anyone to make something like this are pretty slim...

But, then again, someone could still show up later and change that.

Just be patient, see if anyone takes interest in the next few days, and if not, then, well, you might just be out of luck.

As I said before, Rockbox is replacement firmware for DAPs and development focuses on music playback and related functionality before plugins...

[Chronon]

well im not any good at coding. do you know where i could find someone to make a .rock file of it for the fuze 2?

Someone has to create a game or port an existing one.  Nobody can just make a .rock out of thin air.  If you are really interested, you could look into doing the work yourself (at least you can be sure that someone is working on it).

Barring that, you could try to find an existing game to use as a starting point.  Some prerequisites for a suitable project that could be ported to Rockbox:
1) GPL compatible code
2) Written in C
3) Uses fixed point numbers
4) No dynamic memory allocation

If you can find an existing game that satisfies these conditions then you will have provided a starting point for someone who is capable of doing the work.  This could make it more likely for someone to take interest and take up the work.

[fojam]

like find one of the already made games in the build to edit?

[saratoga]

like find one of the already made games in the build to edit?

Sure thats one way.  Or write a new game from scratch.  Etc.

However, if you can't program, your first step is probably going to involve "learning to program" or "forgetting about this idea since you're not interested enough in it to learn to program".

[fojam]

ill give programming a shot.
so what program do i open the file with?

[saratoga]

ill give programming a shot.
so what program do i open the file with?

A text editor.

[fojam]

ummmm..... this doesnt even look editable....

[karashata]

Are you trying to edit the .rock file directly?

That won't work, what you need to do is download the source code (preferably via SVN), find the source code specific to the plugin you want to alter, then open that file in a text editor and make any changes to it from there. Of course, this will require some programming experience, so you may want to read up on C programming a little first so you have some clue as to what you're doing...

In any case, here's a list of wiki articles you should read related to Rockbox programming:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevelopmentGuide <-- pretty much everything's actually linked to in there

Have fun!