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JdGordon:
im working all this week ( :'( ) so i dont know how much time i will have to play with this, but when i do get a chance im going to try fiving the nano dta abort, and figure out what to do about the scrolling selection screen...

and talk about the selection screen buttons... we'll discuss this, but in another thread, and in a little while...

ta

AlexP:

--- Quote from: jdgordon on September 24, 2006, 05:32:03 PM ---im working all this week ( :'( ) so i dont know how much time i will have to play with this, but when i do get a chance im going to try fiving the nano dta abort, and figure out what to do about the scrolling selection screen...

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Every one has to from time to time!  Just curious, I assume this patch is to simplify the internal architecture of the menus etc, as clearly we here are trying to make it the same to the end user as before (other than the settings not resetting on config block bump)?

Oh, and I've managed to buy a 60gb drive from ebay, so hopefully I'll be back up and running (and testing) soon...  :)

JdGordon:
yes, the patch simplifies the whole way settings are handled, from saving/loading of cfg files, to menus and settings, and i've been told i have to keep backwards compatibility which means make it so the user never knows anything changed.

and congrats :)

JdGordon:
yay, that was fairly painful, but we found the bug, nano version is on the wiki for the lazy's....

JdGordon:
new toy for you all to play with in v22 of the patch (will be uploaded as soon as im done with the reply)
if there is a file /.rockbox/user_menu.config a new menu item will apear at the top of the main menu called "User Menu"!
this lets you have your own favorites there, and can be any menu item that can be reachable from the main menu.

the file is a regular text file something like this...

# browse wps files
3,2,1
# write config file
4,3

etc...
each number is the sub item you want linked to.. (0 based..), so the 3,2,1 means "general settings" > "display settings" > "browse wps"
if you want to be funny, you can have "endless" looping, -1 will goto the main menu, there is no danger, except if you do that you will get to a point where it wont let you enter any more submenus untill u back out... ( you can have a maximum on 32 items int he user menu, and no, you cannot make sub menus there... yet...)

this is most probably the last new feature that will get into the patch, because i would like to see it "commitable" by the end of the week... so lots of testing please :D

Oh! im not sure if i ever mentioned the other added feature.
putting ~ at the begining of any setting will force that value to be written back when settings are saved, even if the actual value is different...

i.e
~volume = -33 will never save any other value except -33 to volume, you will be ablw to change the value, but it will always be -33 in the config file.
I added this because i am sick of blowing my ears off when i turn on the player and forget i had it on full volume, so this forces it to always start at a sane level. (you are allowed 16 of these values)

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