On 2/15/06, bk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:11 +0000, gl wrote: > > Can somebody give me a rundown on the best way to add new settings? > > > > Specifically: > > > > - where should I add them in the various structs - eg. is it important to > > add them at the end for persistence compatibility? > > Look in apps/settings.h. It contains a giant struct containing all the > global config values. Note that order is significant.
There is a config-block-version-counter somewhere as well that only needs to be updated if the order is changed. If you add some settings, you don't break compatibility, so don't touch it. > > - where are they persisted (hd sector? config file?) and which type of > > settings should end up where? > > There is a raw HDD config block where the config struct is dumped. It > must be read back in the same order it was written. If I remember correctly, on archos devices, the config block is stored in the rtc. > (disclaimer: I'm a noob when it comes to the rockbox source) /me too lImbus
