Rockbox Utility

[Rincewind]

wxwidgets2.8 isn't available in the ubuntu edgy (6.10) reps, only 2.6 and 2.4.

[Domonoky]

Hi,

wxwidgets2.8 was choosen by cassandra and i think at this time no one thought it would be a problem with debian.

Also the MacOSX support of wx got better with 2.8 so i dont know if it possible to downgrade rbutil.
If someone has the time to try it, go ahead :-)

[NicolasP]

As aegis said, http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ has unofficial repositories with 2.8.4 for those running debian or older versions of ubuntu. Feisty includes 2.8 in its universe repos. I think if we mention that 2.8 is required and that it's available in an unofficial repo, it should be all right.

I've packaged rbutil for Feisty. You can find it on the wiki page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxUtility. Please try it out and give some feedback !

[rasher]

As aegis said, http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ has unofficial repositories with 2.8.4 for those running debian or older versions of ubuntu. Feisty includes 2.8 in its universe repos. I think if we mention that 2.8 is required and that it's available in an unofficial repo, it should be all right.

It will however, prevent official Debian packages from emerging (which, if Benjamin Mako Hill was serious might have been a real possibility otherwise). I believe having official packages of rbutil would be a real benefit - some people might even stumble upon Rockbox when looking through the packages.

I've packaged rbutil for Feisty. You can find it on the wiki page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxUtility. Please try it out and give some feedback !

I've uploaded a package for Gutsy (the current development version of Ubuntu) - I accidentally overwrote your package NicolasP, but moved things around, so it should be fixed now.

[NicolasP]

I've uploaded a package for Gutsy (the current development version of Ubuntu) - I accidentally overwrote your package NicolasP, but moved things around, so it should be fixed now.

Looks like it's not quite fixed... I can't install any of the two packages on the wiki page. I'll build a new Feisty one with your latest changes.

[rasher]

I've uploaded a package for Gutsy (the current development version of Ubuntu) - I accidentally overwrote your package NicolasP, but moved things around, so it should be fixed now.

Looks like it's not quite fixed... I can't install any of the two packages on the wiki page. I'll build a new Feisty one with your latest changes.

Could be that I overwrote the wrong file - I made a mess of it. Anyway, if you update it it should be fine again. I also managed to build a package for Debian Unstable, based on the unofficial wxwidgets2.8 packages.

[robin0800]

On a related point ipod patcher just been updated to look for both 0xB
and 0xC patitions you may need to modify your auto detection to cover this
see irc chat this evening.

[linuxstb]

On a related point ipod patcher just been updated to look for both 0xB
and 0xC patitions you may need to modify your auto detection to cover this
see irc chat this evening.

rbutil uses ipodpatcher's code directly - so rbutil was updated at the same time as ipodpatcher was.

[rasher]

I'm not a huge fan of the way the buttons look. Partially the quickly done buttons, and partly the "3d" background which looks extremely out of place on my desktop. So I decided to play around with using icons from the Tango Desktop Project for them. Predictably, however, it didn't turn out too great because of aliasing issues (see attached screenshot). Would it be possible to use PNGs for the buttons to allow alpha transparency, or is this not supported by wxwidgets?

Edit: The "glossy" background on the buttons is just how buttons look with my current theme - not part of the png.

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[rasher]

I've managed to make rbutil use pngs for the buttons. Looks so much nicer. I'll post a patch shortly.

EDIT: Patch posted here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7294 Updated screenshot.

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[evilnick]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but I can't get this to work when using Vista 64-bit.
When I double-click on rbutil.exe to open it, I get a prompt saying no devices found and then regardless of whether I click Yes or No to the Autodetect prompt then the program crashes.

Let me know if you need more details.