Bubbles 2

[lionfury]

Maybe a sequel to the bubbles plugin with new levels and maybe a random option to make random levels for you.

[nls]

why not just add that to the exisiting plugin?

[lionfury]

Sounds good. Mainly I just want the random feature so I can never run out of levels. I would add it myself but my programming skills are limited to ti basic

[froggyman]

First you will want to get yourself a build envirnoment set up so you can compile the code and actually see the results of what you have changed. Take a look at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevelopmentGuide first followed by setting up your compiler to build rockbox from SVN.

You will also want an editor for editing the code, Code::Blocks and notepad++ are two editors that are fairly simple to use.

You may want to consider starting off by just adding more levels to the current version of Bubbles, which really shouldn't be too difficult or require too much prior programming. Check out /apps/plugins/bubbles.c  for its source code in the trunk/SVN. Just take a glance over the entire file, and read through the comments, its describes pretty well on how to make the levels, plus there are 100 examples to look at. Start by making changes to some of the existing levels, compiling it and seeing if you did what you wanted to. After you get a feel for the level syntax start by adding new levels to it. Then you can post a .diff or .patch of your changes on the flyspray and maybe someday have it committed to SVN.

[lionfury]

Thank you. I'll try to do it. Most likely il fail. By the way is it possible to type source code on the rockbox text editor

[soap]

Thank you. I'll try to do it. Most likely il fail. By the way is it possible to type source code on the rockbox text editor

Possible?  Yes.  Though I'm not sure why one would want to.

Perhaps I don't fully understand where you are going, or what base assumptions you are making, with this question.

Rockbox is compiled from source code.  The TI Basic you are familiar with is an interpreted language, meaning that one executes the source code directly on the calculator, running inside another program.  Rockbox is mostly C language code, a compiled language which must be turned into executable software through the use of a compiler.  There is no compiler built into Rockbox as this would be a massive undertaking and most of the DAPs Rockbox supports probably don't have enough battery life to compile a complete Rockbox build.

Rockbox does have a LUA interpreter.  LUA is an interpreted language like TI Basic, and maybe you would enjoy playing around with it.  Still, though, the lack of a physical keyboard (or even a decent number of buttons) on Rockbox devices would make programming on your DAP a painful experience, IMHO.