Re: End of list beep

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
Andrew Hart wrote: Of course, the idea isn't to wait for the beep and go around a second time; the aim is to get close to it on the first pass. The beep is to let you know you've muffed it and also gives you a guide for the second attempt which can be made simply by keeping the button

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
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 you please tell me how this is

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 you

End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Usecase: I am using rockbox with voice files i have each file with a voice tag, I want to get to a song beginning with S. Lets say we have 1000 songs, I can scroll and then stop periodically to listen to my current location (slow). I will know when i am near or far away from the song i want. We

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Louden
anticlockwise so why is it preferable to spend time scrolling clockwise to get to the end of the list beep, when you could scroll one item anticlockwise and be there? I fail to understand how comfort factors in, since either way you're at the end of the list and must scroll anticlockwise.

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Martitiz
to the beep, you then still *have* to scroll anticlockwise so why is it preferable to spend time scrolling clockwise to get to the end of the list beep, when you could scroll one item anticlockwise and be there? I fail to understand how comfort factors in, since either way you're at the end

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Louden
Thomas Martitiz wrote: You're not always at the very beginning of a list. Rockbox remembers the selection, which makes scrolling just 1 item up impossible then. This is true if you back out of a folder. So now we're in a situation where someone is backing out of a sub-list, and wants to

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Martitiz
Am 15.06.2009 01:07, schrieb Paul Louden: No matter who's doing the talking, nobody can say this is the best solution to the problem without first defining the scope of the problem. Since the only problem described seems to be getting to the bottom of the list there are much faster ways to

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Hart
then still *have* to scroll anticlockwise so why is it preferable to spend time scrolling clockwise to get to the end of the list beep, when you could scroll one item anticlockwise and be there? I fail to understand how comfort factors in, since either way you're at the end of the list and must

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Hart
then still *have* to scroll anticlockwise so why is it preferable to spend time scrolling clockwise to get to the end of the list beep, when you could scroll one item anticlockwise and be there? I fail to understand how comfort factors in, since either way you're at the end of the list and must

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: Having a