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Plugins/Viewers / Re: Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

« Last post by iPodVT on January 22, 2025, 11:44:08 AM »

Do you envision those settings in plugins still being accessible via some kind of shortcuts?

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Thanks everyone

« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on January 22, 2025, 11:35:52 AM »

i retired from teaching and decided to resurrect my iPods. I had no idea Rockbox existed a few months ago. I am beyond thrilled to have this software and the ability to develop themes.

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

« Last post by Bilgus on January 22, 2025, 11:15:04 AM »

I would like to eventually move most of the settings to plugins, they are run pretty infrequently after setup and we could then add a lot more expressiveness into it
like adding search and help text

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

« Last post by iPodVT on January 22, 2025, 10:44:43 AM »

Nice,  I'm the opposite type of user I want it to just turn on resume playback and play till it runs down or I turn it off
I rarely skip tracks and when I do I really would like to delete them and when the playlist ends I load another and
thats about it for my day to day interaction with my dap

I do some plugins and the bookmarks for audiobooks but those can be automatic now with the bookmarking ignore stuff

but I do enjoy seeing what yall come up with in the OS that is rockbox

Actually, my heavy use of shortcuts is in large part for auditioning/testing/experimenting with features and settings - activities that require repeatedly changing things in a short time frame.  There are only a relative handful of my shortcuts that I use on frequent ongoing basis.  When I'm just listening to music I don't really fidget with the device very much (though I do love to mess with the gadgetry of iPods and Rockbox).  There are lots of entries in my shortcuts file that could and should be removed, but I'm also a bit of a hoarder.  One of the things I love about Rockbox's circular menu scrolling is that I can put the most often used shortcuts at the top and bottom of the menu for super quick access, and then the less often used stuff more in the middle.

I'm also experimenting with using Shortcuts to just change specific settings rather than take me to a setting's menu.  For instance, I have a Brightness shortcut that takes me to its menu, and I also have shortcuts to just change the Brightness to 16, or 25, or 32, or 50.  At some point I will probably have all of Rockbox in my Shortcuts Menu... ;-)

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on January 22, 2025, 10:25:25 AM »

Thanks 

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

« Last post by iPodVT on January 22, 2025, 10:21:04 AM »

This is the entry I use for dashed separator lines in my shortcut.txt file:

[shortcut]
type: separator
data:
name: -------------------
icon: -1
talkclip:

I also tried it without supplying the dashes in the 'name:' field and that result in a plain empty line - no icon or other default content.

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: Problem with the Shortcuts Plugin?

« Last post by Bilgus on January 22, 2025, 10:00:30 AM »

probably 'type: separator' does this

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: OpenPlugin the plugin for opening plugins?

« Last post by Bilgus on January 22, 2025, 09:46:30 AM »

Not really I need to make manual entries for these
Not really a whole lot to this one

OpenPlugin is basically a database of plugins and their parameters to run them, they get stored to the db and you get a key to retrieve them later

It also has a mode that uses rockbox's language id as a key to allow storing plugins for actions such as your
wps hotkey, startup plugin

It also has an accompanying plugin 'Apps>open_plugins' that serves as an editor for these entries

so you can view / edit/ export them

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Feature Ideas / Re: Album art conversion plugin or menu?

« Last post by bubuz0 on January 22, 2025, 09:04:49 AM »

what would you use on a real computer to do that? (something that can be scripted...)

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Plugins/Viewers / Re: OpenPlugin the plugin for opening plugins?

« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on January 22, 2025, 07:31:53 AM »

OpenPlugin

Open plugin is a recent addition to rockbox
at the lowest level it allows storing and hashed lookup of plugins and parameters

its been integrated with the core to enable opening plugins on startup, hotkeys, shortcuts

There is also a companion plugin in the viewers folder to allow you to run plugins using openwith
and a shortcut to the plugin in the apps folder that uses it to start the viewer in editor mode

in edit mode you can export shortcuts back to the file system and use them from the file browser as if you were in the plugin folder

Another use is doing things like making a shortcut that starts the text viewer and loads a specified file using the parameter field

Is there a “how to” on this somewhere? Thanks