Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

[Bilgus]

I actually made a file browser within the plugin to solve the issues it still has that drop into the file browser part but I will be changing that to run in the file browser instead

[Bilgus]

turns out it was easier than I expected missed the nightlies but it should be available soon

it does have some differing behavior depending on the shortcut and the file but it works pretty well

[iPodVT]

That's great - thanks very much.  Can't wait to try it.

[iPodVT]

This evening I installed 4e53ec80b5-231125 via the Daily Build (20231126) option in Rockbox Utility.  Everything with using my .link file seems to be working 100% when I 'play' the .link file via the File Browser.  But when I play the .link file via my Shortcuts menu - using it to navigate to a track and then selecting the track to have it play - the playing of the track still gets deferred and I get sent back to wherever I was just before I went into the Shortcuts menu.  As soon as I try to navigate back into my Shortcuts menu or into the File browser, the track starts to play and I get sent to the WPS.  I don't expect that this really is the behavior you intend, but in any case it ultimately accomplishes the functionality that I was hoping for - thank you very much for that - albeit with an extra step or two en route.

[iPodVT]

More clarification:

There are three ways of accessing my Shortcuts Menu:  1) via "Shortcuts" in the Main Menu, 2) via a long click on the Select Button in the Quick Screen if "Shortcuts instead of Quick Screen" is turned off, and 3) via a long click on the Menu Button if "Shortcuts instead of Quick Screen" is turned on.

If I access my .link file via Shortcuts by method 1 (above), everything seems to work 100%, just as it does when I access my .link file via the File Browser.  But if I access my .link file via Shortcuts by methods 2 or 3 (above), then I get the deferred behavior as described in my previous post.  It seems to me that maybe methods 2 and 3 create a deeper modal state that is not getting properly exited.

[Bilgus]

nah there just isn't anyone listening in those cases till you fire up a browser i'm on to something else but I'll come back to it in a few days

[Bilgus]

Ok I just merged https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/5529
this should take care of all the ways you can find to run a shortcut plugin

let me know if it doesn't..

[iPodVT]

Thanks so much for staying with this.

I just now used Rockbox Utility to install Development Version (83566008a0) on my 7th Gen iPod Classic and it's much improved.  But there is still one condition (that I know of) in which the deferred playing and misnavigation occurs:  from the Main Menu I long click the Menu Button to access my shortcuts;  from the list of shortcuts I select/click the shortcut that points to my .link file, which takes me into the listed contents of the .link file;  from that list I select/click an item that takes me into the directory of an album;  from that directory I select/click on a track file which takes me back to the Main Menu and the playing of that selected track is deferred until I do something like trying to enter the File Browser or trying to reenter my .link file via Shortcuts.  If, at the outset, I access my shortcuts via the Shortcuts item in the Main Menu, everything seems to work correctly.  Similarly, if, at the outset, I access my shortcuts via a long click on the Menu Button from within the WPS, everything seems to work correctly.  I also tried via a long click on the Menu Button from within the File Browser and that worked correctly, too.

[Bilgus]

In case there are more could you try this build out and see if everything works as expected?
https://www.mediafire.com/file/tqfzibaul8otjf8/rockbox_iPodClassic_shortcuts_link_9e802be.zip/file

[iPodVT]

Sure thing - thanks.  Give me a few minutes to get set up again and then I'll install it, try it and report back.

[iPodVT]

Bingo - you did it!  Seems to be 100%.  I've tried six scenarios and they all worked.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[iPodVT]

Of course, I'm curious to know what was different about accessing my shortcuts via a long click on the Menu Button in the Main Menu vs a long click from anywhere else?  But you have already devoted enough (too much) of your time to making it work, so I'm content to have the fully functioning feature without having to know the hows and whys.

Again, THANK YOU!

[Bilgus]

there were i think 5 different ways it could be called with differing levels of indirection but basically they all roll through the root menu at some point but filtering for other things (like the shortcut plugin) wiped out the return depending who called from where how deep (in the last one in the case of how not deep I guess..)

[iPodVT]

Thanks for sharing that info.

[Bilgus]

You are welcome thanks for the bug report and testing