Sansa c250 for interested developer

2009-03-16 Thread Malcolm Tyrrell
Hi there. I'm retiring my Sansa C250. If there's a developer who'd like to have it to improve the build, or use it as an additional test platform, then contact me. Caveat: It mostly works, but sometimes powers down randomly. It might be a hardware problem or a Rockbox problem. Good luck,

Plug-in USB behaviour

2008-04-08 Thread Malcolm Tyrrell
Hi all. I read from: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HowtoWritePlugins that: Some button handling, and a check for USB being plugged in while the plugin is running. The default_handler() call on unhandled events should be put in all code that handles button input. OK, so a plug-in

Re: Option rework (was: Re: my next crazy idea... rework the menu system)

2006-08-23 Thread Malcolm Tyrrell
My point is, that when you have the simple view, and turn on advanced, a bunch of settings just appeared, and you have no idea which, or where they are. This makes it, in my eyes, more confusing than simply always having all options available. Another option is having options grayed out if

Re: Release policy and coordination

2006-05-30 Thread Malcolm Tyrrell
(I must say the code lacks some comments, sometimes ;). At the moment, I'm just looking round the sources trying to understand them. Would it be useful for people like myself to submit comment patches? As I look round the code, I could add comments when I work out what something does, and

X5 OF not aware of RB usb changes

2006-05-22 Thread Malcolm Tyrrell
Hi all. I submitted a bug-report which was closed because it relates to the not-yet-official dual bootloader. I've no problems with that, but before I forget, I'd like to record the results of some minor experiments I did with my X5 to understand the problem. Summary of problem: If I manage