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Subject: Re: Voice support suggestion

Re: Voice support suggestion

From: matthew cooper <matt_at_hampshiregoalball.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:37:12 -0000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linus Nielsen Feltzing" <linus_at_haxx.se>
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: Voice support suggestion


> Onj wrote:
>> Out of interest and I promice this is a related question, what happens if
>> you press menu followed by other buttons? If nothing, then how about
>> there could be a set of pre-defined options?
>
> Unfortunately not. The circuitry that handles the buttons is unable to
> handle multiple keys at once, with a few exceptions like the ON button on
> the iriver H100/H300.
>
>> Before the menu was changed with the root menu,it was simple enough to
>> press menu, down twice or just once depending on if you had recent
>> bookmarkes enabled, right, up, right, right, down and right to go to
>> voice >voice menus yes. Since it's not always the same place people
>> enter menu's anymore this could prove a little difficult.
>
> I can see how that may be a problem when the voice is turned off. However,
> you can rely on the fact that the menus don't wrap when you hold the
> up/down buttons. Therefore you can make sure that you are on the first
> menu choice by holding the UP button for a few seconds (or rotating the
> scroll wheel counter-clockwise).
>
> After that, you can continue with a memorized sequence to enable the voice
> again. That would be
> down-down-down-select-down-select-up-select-select-down-select.
>
>> The one I especially wonder about is menu +record button. At the moment
>> the record button doesn't do anything, but if it were to do something, I
>> believe it should go to the recording screen. Menu +record button could
>> take you to recording settings. Any thoughts?
>
> I think the record button should be used for recording, but not in
> combination with another button.
>
> Linus
>
>
>
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see, but for me, as an h10 user, memorising the menus would be useless
because of the way the stupid scrole pad works. It's so dam sencetive!
Received on 2007-03-22

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