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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: NFO viewingRe: NFO viewing
From: mrlipring <mrlipring_at_tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:05:26 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Björn Stenberg" <bjorn_at_haxx.se> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:56 AM Subject: Re: NFO viewing > Michael O'Quinn wrote: > > Even better would be the ability to look at ANY file with the text viewer. > > > > This would require either (a) creating a list of file types that the text > > viewer will open when that file is "Played," or (b) being able to invoke > > the text viewer in some manner OTHER than pressing "Play" on the file. > > It would be fairly trivial to add "view as text" to the ON+PLAY meny. But we need to review the text viewer code first, to make sure it doesn't choke when trying to view an mp3 or other binary data. > > Looking a bit forward, however, we should instead add a system to bind plugins to file extensions (maybe with wildcards). A simple /.rockbox/file_types file could describe this: > > .txt:/rockbox/.rocks/viewer > .nfo:/rockbox/.rocks/viewer > .ch8:/rockbox/.rocks/chip8 > .html:/usr/local/bin/rocks/mozilla > > ...and so on. If more than one plugin can view a certain file type, the user should be prompted with a choice. > > -- > Björn sounds great, yeah. you can never have enough config files! :) Received on 2003-12-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |