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Subject: Re: wps extensions plugin

Re: wps extensions plugin

From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:41:17 +1100

On 15/01/07, Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin
> which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core,
> anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and
> weather its committable?
>
> The patch adds 2 major tags, %el to check if the extensions plugin is
> loaded, and %ee which checks if a specific extra tag was enabled (used
> like %?ee|pv<dB|%%>) which checks if the pv tag is overloaded by the
> plugin)...
>
> The plugin currently adds 2 tags which are very quick demos of how to
> use the plugin.
> the first is %rt which just displays the runtime on the wps.
> the second is %pv which shows the volume in % instead of dB (I used
> this to show that core tags can get overloaded... I know this volume
> in % is silly)
>
> I didn't get around to checking how well bitmaps would be handled by
> this (hint hint if anyone is bored and wants to try...)
>
> Oh, each extra tag can be enabled/disalbed seperatly. (load the
> wps_extensions plugin from the browser and it lets you chose which to
> show).
>
> And finaly, there was a worry that this would incur a disk spin every
> time the wps was loaded. What I've done is check for the
> wps_extensions.rock file, if it doesnt exist it will never try to open
> it again (untill rebooting). If it does exist it will only reload it
> if something stole the plugin buffer.
>
> Now, With this plugin in mind, I ifdefed out the clock tags and did a
> compile for the recorder and it shrunk rockbox.elf by 800bytes (and
> made it small enough for it to say how much over rombox is). removing
> the entire body of get_tag() in gwps-common.c (so all the tag
> processing) got rombox to within 800bytes of fitting! and I'm sure if
> the bitmap handling was taken out of the core it would fit easily
> again.
>
> (dont worry, I'm not suggesting removing all the tag proccessing,
> except maybe for the recorder to get rombox working), but I think it
> would be nice to limit the core tags to just text tags and move the
> bitmap stuff out of the core.)
>
> So yeah, Let me know what you think,
> Jonathan
>
>
>
OK, replying to myself.
Ive worked a bit more on this and I have a very simple album art
working (same tag as the current AA patch), the problem with it is
that drawing text onto the same line that the bmp covers will clear
it.

So, I am attaching the patch here if anyone wants to take over.

Received on 2007-01-17

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