From: Tom Cole <tcole_at_xtra.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:50:17 +1300

Brilliant!
Will this patch be easily extendable to allow customisation of F3? I
find the current assignments for F2 are much more useful than those for
F3, and would like to customise F3.



On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:52:30 +1030, you wrote:

>Guys,
>
>I am about half way through my F2 patch that allows F2 to be customised
>according to the NEWKEYS document. At first, I’m concentrating on allowing
>items from the settings menu (F1) to be added to F2. There are some things
>I’d like to clear up, as well as some suggestions I’d like to make.
>
>Firstly, Rockbox will lose F2 functionality within F1 menus. At present,
>you can access F2 within the F1 menu to access quick screens. I plan on
>using F2 within F1 to add items to the F2 menu (sounds intuitive to me).
>
>To do this successfully, I need to add an action code to every menu entry in
>F1 (i.e. add an action element to the menu_items structure in menu.h). My
>long-term plan is to separate actions from buttons and this is the first
>step.
>
>I have also added a key handler to the menu system that allows key
>assignments to be more flexible. For example, my above suggestion about
>using F2 within F1 to assign a menu item uses this key handler to execute a
>function stored as a pointer. Once again, this is a part of the plan to
>separate actions from buttons.
>
>If anyone violently disagrees with the above then let me know, because I
>don’t want to start this major re-organisation.
>
>Also, once I’m done with the settings menu do you want the patch submitted ?
> It seems that this functionality would satisfy most of the requests on the
>mail list. Just let me know.
>
>Cheers,
>
>c0utta
>
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Tom Cole
Lower Hutt
New Zealand
tcole_at_xtra.co.nz

Received on 2004-01-10