Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
New patch: Settings Display Within Menus. DONE!
AM:
It's nice to see that there's been some extra focus on usability the last couple of days. This patch is my contribution.
It allows values for settings to be viewed and modified from directly within the menus (you don't have to select them to display them on a separate page).
Activated via General Settings -> Display -> Settings Display.
So far only the aforementioned menu, plus Playback Settings and its submenus, have been changed to allow for this. I thought I'd await comments/suggestions/testing before I go ahead and convert all settings menus.
Now done converting all the menus!
I'd love it if you guys gave it a try and help me with testing/suggestions.
So far only tested on H100 sim, H300 sim and iPod4G sim.and a few more
screenie:
link: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/5833
lowlight:
Interesting...I would suggest modeling it after the "Show ID3 Info" screen (it's a list were each item is 2 lines). It might look cleaner and scale better to other targets (particularly those with smaller screens).
AM:
--- Quote from: lowlight on August 17, 2006, 12:54:23 PM ---Interesting...I would suggest modeling it after the "Show ID3 Info" screen (it's a list were each item is 2 lines). It might look cleaner and scale better to other targets (particularly those with smaller screens).
--- End quote ---
AFAIK with the current list code you cant have different amount of lines for list different entries, which could be a problem since on many of the settings screens there are a combination of actual settings and submenus (would mean empty lines after each submenu?). Also, I'd like to be able to keep the option of displaying the value for the selected item only, which would mean one entry with two lines, the rest just one - again not possible.
Personally I don't feel like redoing all the list code to allow for a differing number of lines for different entries and I really doubt it'd be possible to get it to work well on really small screens or with huge fonts so I think it might be better if those users just had this option switched off, using the current method of editing settings on a separate page.
LinusN:
I wouldn't want different line heights for sub-categories. Instead, I can imagine something like this:
--- Code: ---Volume
-11dB
Sub-setting
-------------->
--- End code ---
or something like that.
AM:
--- Quote from: LinusN on August 17, 2006, 01:09:20 PM ---I wouldn't want different line heights for sub-categories. Instead, I can imagine something like this:
--- Code: ---Volume
-11dB
Sub-setting
-------------->
--- End code ---
or something like that.
--- End quote ---
Hmm... Shouldn't be all that hard to add that as an option I guess (except perhaps if you want a really fancy graphical arrow). Maybe I'll give it a shot later on. Currently I'm a little fatigued from coding many hours straight so right now I won't touch the code for a while unless I find any small but glaringly obvious bugs.
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