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How can i add it in dmenu ??

I will add an "open with" function to DinguXMB. Defining an association will be similar to adding a shortcut for an executable - instead it will work by associating pre-configured shortcuts to directories.

Here's an example:

Browse to an executable, say, "/usr/local/emulator/emu.dge"
Press X to create a new shortcut. Shortcut is created.

Browse to a directory, say, "/usr/local/emulator/roms"
Press X to create a new "open with" association. Select the desired shortcut from the list of pre-configured shortcuts. New association is created.

When browsing the filesystem, any directory already associated with a shortcut will have a new, distinctive icon and some indication of which shortcut is currently associated with it.
Browsing inside associated directories like "/usr/local/emulator/roms" will display all files (not just executables).
Pressing 'A' on a file in an associated directory will run the associated shortcut with the absolute path of the selected file as the first argument.

Actual commands executed for associated files would be something like:

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cd <shortcut's directory>
./<shortcut> <associated directory/selected_file>

ie.

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cd /usr/local/emulator
./emu.dge /usr/local/emulator/roms/selected_file

Sound okay? Do we need relative paths as well?

hello slaneesh.
big thanks to you and your hard work. you are a great coder and we all hope you will continue programming for the dingoo.

my question is about your other project: fba320. whenn can we expect the initial release. cant - wait - anymore.....

cheers

hi slaanesh,

Great work man. I love the flow. It's fast an nice!!

Your Idea of "open with" is good. Do you think it's possible, to associate more than one file-extension to a shortcut(program)?
You should also add this to Photo, Music, Video as well . For later, i want to use my own photo or music app.

About your browsing Idea:
You should think of 2 different Filebrowsers.
-One for starting Apps or selecting shortcuts for binaries (Filebrowser).
-The other for choosing ROMS as start parameter option for the associated binary (selectorbrowser).

When you browse the Game Filebrowser, you only show the files associated (the ROMS) with shortcuts. Because when i'm in the Game-Filebrowser, i don't need to see the Binaries or all other Files here, i just want to tip on my rom image.

i create my own folders and maybe subfolders for many roms:
roms/sms/
roms/gg/
roms/gb/a-c/
roms/gb/d-g/
...

Maybe you can define a standard ROM directory in config for (music/video/photo/and game). Then i don't have to browse trough all other directories until i find my ROM directory.

I have some other suggestions for you:

1. Videoplayer menutask restart the XMB. Why? Where can i define my videoplayer app? I think this should be config. for later mplayer or something.

2. deactivate all unnessesary menus.

2.1 please only show one of this "SD-Card" or "Internal" in all menus.

3. an menu option to reboot(!just like dmenu) or shutdown (i know that this is currently not available).

4. Can i help coding? Do you have an official repository? Maybe googlecode or sourceforge? Would be great.


just for now.

cheers
SiENcE

slaanesh wrote:I will add an "open with" function to DinguXMB. Defining an association will be similar to adding a shortcut for an executable - instead it will work by associating pre-configured shortcuts to directories.

Here's an example:

Browse to an executable, say, "/usr/local/emulator/emu.dge"
Press X to create a new shortcut. Shortcut is created.

Browse to a directory, say, "/usr/local/emulator/roms"
Press X to create a new "open with" association. Select the desired shortcut from the list of pre-configured shortcuts. New association is created.

When browsing the filesystem, any directory already associated with a shortcut will have a new, distinctive icon and some indication of which shortcut is currently associated with it.
Browsing inside associated directories like "/usr/local/emulator/roms" will display all files (not just executables).
Pressing 'A' on a file in an associated directory will run the associated shortcut with the absolute path of the selected file as the first argument.

Actual commands executed for associated files would be something like:

Code: Select all

cd <shortcut's directory>
./<shortcut> <associated directory/selected_file>

ie.

Code: Select all

cd /usr/local/emulator
./emu.dge /usr/local/emulator/roms/selected_file

Sound okay? Do we need relative paths as well?

It sounds great.

Wasnt sure if i should put this reply here or dinguxmb, but here's my problem.

When i try to run fba320 from the shortcuts menu in dinguxmb i get a segment fault, but if i go to sd memory and find the dge file through that it works just fine.

Hope someone has a fix for this, or maybe im doing this wrong. either way i would like to be able to use the shortcut for it instead of searching through the files.

*bump*

how can i change the wallpaper ? Into a personal wallpaper ..

spn-x wrote:how can i change the wallpaper ? Into a personal wallpaper ..

open a photo from the photo menù in dinguxmb, open the preferences and choose" use as wallpaper" or something like this, i don't remember the right words but i use a custom photo.

in the next release mplayer could be integrated as video player... so that in the video menu all video files could be opened with the mplayer executable. it works allready quite well.