Copy and paste any of those examples to a file name it test.lua copy to your device and run it from the file browser
There are also some more advanced examples that are supplied in the dev versions of rockbox
you can run them from Plugins>Demos>lua_scripts
I think the menu example will be the easiest for you to alter to get what you want
--It's a good example to learn how to work with the menu API, fundamental part of almost any Rockbox plugin.
-- Example script to demonstrate the development of a simple Rockbox plugin in LUA.
-- Written by Gabriel Maia (gbl08ma on the Rockbox community).
-- Licensed under GNU GPL v2 or, at your choice, any later version.
-- Function to display the main menu of this script
function ShowMainMenu() -- we invoke this function every time we want to display the main menu of the script
mainmenu = {"Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Exit"} -- define the items of the menu
while true do -- don't exit of program until user selects Exit
s = rb.do_menu("Test", mainmenu, nil, false) -- actually tell Rockbox to draw the menu
-- In the line above: "Test" is the title of the menu, mainmenu is an array with the items
-- of the menu, nil is a null value that needs to be there, and the last parameter is
-- whether the theme should be drawn on the menu or not.
-- the variable s will hold the index of the selected item on the menu.
-- the index is zero based. This means that the first item is 0, the second one is 1, etc.
if s == 0 then ShowSubmenu1()
elseif s == 1 then rb.splash(2 * rb.HZ, "You selected Item 2") --show a message for two seconds
elseif s == 2 then rb.splash(2 * rb.HZ, "You selected Item 3")
elseif s == 3 then os.exit() -- User selected to exit
elseif s == -2 then os.exit() -- -2 index is returned from do_menu() when user presses the key to exit the menu (on iPods, it's the left key).
-- In this case, user probably wants to exit (or go back to last menu).
else rb.splash(2 * rb.HZ, "Error! Selected index: " .. s) -- something strange happened. The program shows this message when
-- the selected item is not on the index from 0 to 3 (in this case), and displays
-- the selected index. Having this type of error handling is not
-- required, but it might be nice to have specially while you're still
-- developing the plugin.
end
end
end
-- Submenu 1
function ShowSubmenu1() -- function to draw the submenu 1, which will be displayed when
-- user selects Item 1 on main menu
submenu1 = {"Sub Item 1", "Sub Item 2", "Return"} -- define the items of the menu
while true do -- don't exit of program until user selects Exit
s1 = rb.do_menu("Item 1 menu", submenu1, nil, false)
if s1 == 0 then rb.splash(2 * rb.HZ, "You selected Sub Item 1") --show a message for two seconds
elseif s1 == 1 then rb.splash(2 * rb.HZ, "You selected Sub Item 2")
elseif s1 == 2 then ShowMainMenu() -- return to the main menu, display it again
elseif s1 == -2 then ShowMainMenu() -- user seems to want to go back
else rb.splash(2 * rb.HZ, "Error! Selected index: " .. s)
end
end
end
-- code written out of any function will be executed when the file is "played" on the file browser.
-- if you don't put anything out of a function (not even a call to the main function, like we do here),
-- the script will simply do nothing.
ShowMainMenu() -- start the program by displaying the main menu of the script.
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