Problem building voices using Cygwin

2011-02-28 Thread Andrew Hart
Hi folks, I've installed the latest Cygwin release and used rockboxdev.sh to build the tool chain. The only hitch with that I had was some missing libraries and wget, but installing those solved the problem. I have successfully built RB for the H140 and am trying to build the corresponding voice

Re: Replaygain without a setting, and other menu cleaning.

2009-06-19 Thread Andrew Hart
If folks really want to stream-line, why not remove the "Enable replay gain" option from the "replay gain" menu and add a "no replay gain", "off" or "ignore replay gain tags" option to the "replay gain type" setting? Personally, I'm happy with how it currently stands. The current arrangement als

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Hart
alex wallis wrote: > snip >> Incidentally, searching for a particular subdirectory/file buried in a >> directory somewhere is much easier on the iriver H1xx/3xx players with >> the LCD remote since one of the buttons allows you to skip through the >> list a bunch of tracks at a time. > > Could

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Hart
alex wallis wrote: [snip] > Why don't you enable the dircache option? I find for me at least it > means I have a lot fewer disc spin ups, which I like as of course drives > are increasingly hard to find these days. Good idea. I had forgotten all about dircache.

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Hart
Apologies for the double post. Thunderbird gave me the impression the post didn't go out as it was still sitting in the drafts folder. I should have been more patient and checked the sent folder instead. In any case, I want to make a further comment below. Andrew Hart wrote: > &

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Hart
Paul Louden wrote: > Thomas Lloyd wrote: >> I do it forward as a clockwise rotation on the E200 is more comfortable >> to achieve than anticlockwise. So a beep at the end of the list could >> come in very useful. > Why can't you scroll up a single entry exactly? If you scroll down to > the beep,

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Hart
Paul Louden wrote: > Thomas Lloyd wrote: >> I do it forward as a clockwise rotation on the E200 is more comfortable >> to achieve than anticlockwise. So a beep at the end of the list could >> come in very useful. > Why can't you scroll up a single entry exactly? If you scroll down to > the beep,

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Hart
alex wallis wrote: [snip] > Hi Paul I understand you want to know why I find this patch useful. > Well I actually didn't know that holding the joystick in a given > direction continuously would take me to the end of a list and stop me > there, > as a side note, perhaps the manual should be update

Re: Possibly incorrect FM region settings

2008-12-29 Thread Andrew Hart
Alex Parker wrote: > I'd rather not be "Miscellaneous", although I am struggling to think of > another term. Maybe General, Italy and US/Canada, although I'm not sure > I like general too much - it is just better than miscellaneous! How about "other" instead of general/miscellaneous/etc.? Chee

Re: cygwin packages instalation with jaws and a few other questions

2007-07-25 Thread Andrew Hart
Tyler W wrote: Hello, I've been trying to instal cygwin to compile patches and such, however, I'm having a slight problem. WhenI go to try and select various packages, i can't find the listbox, condo box- or anything else that says to select a package- so I searched on the mailing list and fo

Re: installing patches

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Hart
[snip] Also I am blind will I be able to use cygwin with a screenreader? Sorry, but I have no experience with screen readers. [snip] Once it is installed, Cygwin works reasonably well with screen readers. It's no worse than working with the Windows command prompt. However, the Cygwin se

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Andrew Hart
Lots of interest. There are loads of blind folk using Rockbox and all efforts to make it even more useful and usable speechwise are greatly appreciated. I'll have to go check out these patches! Cheers, Andrew. Stéphane Doyon wrote: Hi, I would like to point out the patches I uploaded to Fl

Re: Problem compiling with Cygwin

2006-09-29 Thread Andrew Hart
s as yet. Do I need a later version than 3.4.4? Many thanks, Andrew. Jonas H wrote: Andrew Hart wrote: Hi folks, I just updated my cvs to the latest. It's been a week or so since I last did this. However, now I cannot compile an Iriver H300 build under Cygwin any more. GCC gives m

Problem compiling with Cygwin

2006-09-29 Thread Andrew Hart
Hi folks, I just updated my cvs to the latest. It's been a week or so since I last did this. However, now I cannot compile an Iriver H300 build under Cygwin any more. GCC gives me an error message that is totally beyond me. I've pasted the output from make below. The problem is in the li

Re: Question about V2 .lang file format

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Hart
Daniel Stenberg wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Andrew Hart wrote: I'm in the midst of writing a utility to build .voice files using the new V2 lang file format. Uh, genlang -o was made just to let you use the old scripts without having to do this! >> [rest snipped] Yes,

Question about V2 .lang file format

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Hart
Hi folks, I'm in the midst of writing a utility to build .voice files using the new V2 lang file format. I have the parser written and can now read and write .lang files; I don't yet have code for loading and saving comments in .lang files (comments are read, but ignored at the moment) and there

TALK_ID ADVICE FOR NEWBIE

2006-09-02 Thread Andrew Hart
Hi folks, I am hoping that someone can point me in the direction of what I'm doing wrong. I want to have some audible feedback when Rockbox is ready after it has been powered on. So, I tried adding the line talk_id(LANG_ON, false); to main.c, but I've had no joy. rockbox rema

Re: Option rework

2006-08-23 Thread Andrew Hart
Simon M. wrote: [snip] A couple of related ideas: - Sort options by last access time (after a while, your personal favorites will always be on top) >> [snip] I would strongly object to this. Imho, for blind folks (as well as folks using Rockbox while driving in a car), having static me

Re: Proposed changes to threading API

2006-08-07 Thread Andrew Hart
At 05:18 07-08-2006, you wrote: Greetings all, I have been looking at using both cores on PortalPlayer based devices (iPod, Sansa E200, iRiver H10.) I think that supporting this is going to require changes to the threading API so that threads can be run on both cores. I propose: 1. Changing the

Re: Release policy and coordination

2006-06-01 Thread Andrew Hart
I agree whole heartedly with the sentiments below concerning the typical user who is too lazy, stupid or incapable of taking five minutes to read the release notes. In addition, Rockbox has built up a respectable name and image for itself, despite its development just being done mostly for fun