Hey all, Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core, anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and weather its committable?
The patch adds 2 major tags, %el to check if the extensions plugin is loaded, and %ee which checks if a specific extra tag was enabled (used like %?ee|pv<dB|%%>) which checks if the pv tag is overloaded by the plugin)... The plugin currently adds 2 tags which are very quick demos of how to use the plugin. the first is %rt which just displays the runtime on the wps. the second is %pv which shows the volume in % instead of dB (I used this to show that core tags can get overloaded... I know this volume in % is silly) I didn't get around to checking how well bitmaps would be handled by this (hint hint if anyone is bored and wants to try...) Oh, each extra tag can be enabled/disalbed seperatly. (load the wps_extensions plugin from the browser and it lets you chose which to show). And finaly, there was a worry that this would incur a disk spin every time the wps was loaded. What I've done is check for the wps_extensions.rock file, if it doesnt exist it will never try to open it again (untill rebooting). If it does exist it will only reload it if something stole the plugin buffer. Now, With this plugin in mind, I ifdefed out the clock tags and did a compile for the recorder and it shrunk rockbox.elf by 800bytes (and made it small enough for it to say how much over rombox is). removing the entire body of get_tag() in gwps-common.c (so all the tag processing) got rombox to within 800bytes of fitting! and I'm sure if the bitmap handling was taken out of the core it would fit easily again. (dont worry, I'm not suggesting removing all the tag proccessing, except maybe for the recorder to get rombox working), but I think it would be nice to limit the core tags to just text tags and move the bitmap stuff out of the core.) So yeah, Let me know what you think, Jonathan
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