From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:10:27 -0700

2009/6/15 David Johnston <david_at_pinkandaint.com>:
> Just to make everything totally clear, I'm suggesting this patch to
> add to SVN.  Comments?  Or, is there anything else I need to do to
> make this more likely to happen?
>
> -David
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM, David Johnston<david_at_pinkandaint.com> wrote:
>> I just put up a new patch, my first forray into RB development.  It's
>> pretty straigtforward, simply adding an entry to the menu system to
>> set whether the user wants to use the morse code input screen rather
>> than the standard one.  I think it would be a good addition to the
>> codebase, since it creates a more intuitive way to switch screens, as
>> well as saving the user's preference of which screen to use across
>> sessions.
>>
>> I would welcome feedback on functionality as well as menu item text
>> and placement.  So far I've only tested it on h120 but I imagine there
>> would be no trouble compiling it for other platforms.  I made an
>> effort to follow all the necessary precautions with conditional
>> compiling and so on.
>>
>> Below is the official description in the Flyspray entry
>> (http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/10338).
>>
>> -David
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch adds an entry to the settings menus to set whether the user
>> wants to use the morse code text input screen rather than the main
>> keyboard screen. An entry in the general_settings struct now holds the
>> current morse input bool.
>>
>> As a result of this change, whenever the user changes between the
>> morse and standard text input screens -- either through the menu or
>> the key combo while inputting text -- Rockbox will remember that
>> setting across sessions. This makes the menu item a somewhat redundant
>> feature, but still valuable since it doesn't require remembering an
>> obscure key combination to change text input style.
>>
>> I applied this patch to revision 21293, but should be generally applicable.
>>
>

have patience.... also, if you look at the patch tracker you will
notice many hundreds of patches that dont get commited...
Received on 2009-06-16