FS#6893 : new UI (no Wizards) for rbUtil

Status Closed
Percent Complete
100%
Task Type Patches
Category Rbutil
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All players
Severity Low
Priority Very Low
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Domonoky - 2007-03-24
Last edited by Llorean - 2007-03-24

FS#6893 - new UI (no Wizards) for rbUtil

Here is a patch to change all the Wizards in rbutil into normal Windows.
It has a few issues, (like very bad looking Images in Linux).

a win binary for testing is at:
www.b23.org/~domonoky/rbutil.zip

rbutil-noWizard.patch (143.2 KiB)

Closed by Domonoky
2007-05-03 17:12
Reason for closing: Accepted

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jdgordon commented on 2007-03-25 12:50

just tested this out under wine, (after never actually using the current rbutil :p ) and it looks good, except 1 thing that I dont like is the message telling me the instalation wizard was canceled after pressing cancel. This seems redundant.

also, there is no exit button except the file menu?

nicolas_p commented on 2007-03-27 19:04

I like this patch, but I do agree with JdGordon on the cancel message. I've been meaning to say this ever since I first got to test rbutil so thanks for reminding me of it ;)
Also the DAP type doesn't seem to be right when a window is first displayed. For me it showed gigabeatf but I still had to manually select the right menu entry.

Domonoky commented on 2007-03-30 00:38

I have now nearly finished this patch.
- The Images are now in a selfmade control, so should look good on all platforms.
- All functionality should work again
- made more own Control for better Code-reuse.

as always: a win binary for testing:
www.b23.org/~domonoky/rbutil.zip

attached is the new Patch:

rbutil-newUI.patch (79.6 KiB)

Domonoky commented on 2007-04-04 16:11

nearly finished patch for new UI for rbutil.

Needs testing on linux.

rbutil.patch (134.4 KiB)

linuxstb commented on 2007-04-05 21:46

A few general comments/suggestions:

1) Why not have a "select device" option on the opening (main) screen. This will allow users to choose their device once, and then the pop-up windows can be customised for those devices - e.g. not displaying a mount point and original firmware location for iPod bootloader installs - having unneeded boxes will just confuse users.

2) Regarding ipods, these can be auto-detected with the ipodpatcher code - so the user just needs to select "ipod", rather than their specific model.

3) The UI allows me to choose a 2.5 release for targets which don't have 2.5 versions.

4) The main opening screen now seems far too cluttered. What about changing to a tabbed layout, with perhaps tabs for "Installation" (the current first two options), "Themes" (fonts and themes) and "Uninstallation" (the current last two options).

Domonoky commented on 2007-04-24 19:06

New updated Patch.

- Theme installing now also works on Linux (but the window doesnt look nice, it doesnt resize it self)

- Tabs for less cluttering in the main screen.

- Device seleting is now in the main screen.

- about autodetecting ipods, this should work via die autodetect button, and will be extended to other Players in the future.

comments welcome