From: Christian Marg <christian.marg_at_tu-clausthal.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:01:21 +0200

Hello...

Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Christian Marg wrote:
>
>> And while I am at it, I thought that perhaps I would find a more
>> convinient Menu structure - and use of keys.
>
> If you have ideas for generic improvements, please share them with
> the list. Good UI design is hard, and we do not pretend we have the
> ultimate model nailed down.

Nothing specific worked out, but why are F2- and F3 -Keys virtually
unused? They could be used to pop up some menu, to reduce the Item count
(and Tree depth) in the F1-Menu.

Has anyone already done a "Map" for the Menu structure? If not, I'll
have to do it to see what could be done about the Menu structure.

Well, of course my primary drive here is that I want to be able to
delete the currently playing file both from the Disk (and the Playlist)
without having to
- enable follow file (really bothersome if you have a directory tree of
mp3s and want to load a .cfg-File from the root or something...)
- press "ON"
- press "ON+Play", "Down", "Down", "Play", "Play"

And to delete an entry from the Playlist you've got to
- press F1, down, down, down, down, right, down, right, on+play, right

To round it up, you have to dig deep trough the menu structure to access
some nice and perhaps often needed functions...

>> Anyways: I took some looks at the source but didn't exactly find
>> where I'd have to butcher around to get to my goals, so: Are there
>> any Pointers?
>
> The mp3 files are loaded by firmware/mpeg.c, specifically new_file().
> It currently works as you guessed: It will not let you skip back over
> a missing file. A patch is welcome.

Hmmm, I'll definately take a look and perhaps even a stab at it. I have
to say though that I'm no experienced programmer... ;)

bye
Christian

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