Three new plugin ideas (Please Comment)

[lionfury]

1. A plugin that runs and edits TI-BASIC code
2. A plugin simailer to windows movie maker to make mpeg movies
3. A plugin that plays and edits Microsoft PowerPoint prestentations.
Please tell me if these are just stupid ideas that will never run on rockbox or if they are actually possible. thanks!

[Yotto]

I don't think they're stupid, per-se. However, each has problems.

Typing on most (all?) mp3 players is insanely difficult due to limited inputs. If I have to do anything more than changing a single file name, I don't bother doing it at all. The idea of writing code on one makes me shudder.

I am not aware of a Rockbox-capable player that has enough beef to encode movies at a speed that would complete even the shortest of movies in anything that could even approximate a decent time. In fact, I suspect many players' batteries would be drained by the process even while plugged in, before it completed.

PowerPoint presentations has a mix of the two problems. It's complicated enough that I'd not want to even try it on my player, and I bet it'd hit the processor pretty hard.

[lionfury]

ti basic isnt really typing its selecting options from a menu.....

[Chronon]

It makes more sense to me to break up #1 into two pieces:
1a) An interpreter for TI-BASIC, which could be useful for files created elsewhere
1b) A menu-based editor for generating source files

[Llorean]

The functions in TI-Basic can be entered from a menu, but you'll still need to type many things (any actual math done, variable names, etc).

[Chronon]

I think the interpreter would be the more useful of the two.

[Llorean]

Wouldn't a TI-BASIC interpreter end up being the better part of a TI calculator emulator? From what I remember pretty much every function of the calculator can be used in a TI-BASIC program.