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Three new plugin ideas (Please Comment)

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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).

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