New Features Progress Update

**reddeath30** · 08-28-2005, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by GreenBeast

thought of a cool new feature you could add...its only a small thing but i discovered its usefullness while having to use media player when i drove around today...

a volume bar, it doesn't have to be massive but i thought it could go above the track title bar (between the two volume buttons), or even behind it (the writing could sit on top of it)
it would allow you to jump to any volume in the range without having to scroll up and down (although the speed of that is much better than version 1 anyway)

what do you think?

Hmm,... not bad. Unfortunately ive tried to put text over a scrolling volume or duration bar and it doesnt work with the code that I use. I could make the volume buttons work much faster, I looked at the code and there is a terribly large margin to speed it up. I also put the mixer module in there too, to adjust things even further. Thank you for the idea. I will think about ways to make the volume easier to adjust. The next update for Version 2 will out soon and it will have the following updates:

Playlist Module -> add all files in the shown directory
Media Player Module -> Shuffles when hitting the previous and next buttons when shuffle is selected.
Bug fix -> When a playlist was the last thing playing upon exit, Starting audio again, when you hit next or previous in shuffle mode or regular mode, it selects the next file in the filelist, not in the playlist if you are starting the media player up in Audio mode.

N64 Module -> will now be a Nintendo/Super Nintendo/Nintendo 64 emulator module, User will have the choice of emulator , all will be touch screen friendly.

XM Radio Module -> No progress yet.

**GreenBeast** · 08-29-2005, 06:34 AM

cool well perhaps it'd work if it was only a few millimetres thick and then you could have it right at the top of the screen above the track title

keep the updates coming!

**Cravex7** · 08-29-2005, 07:24 AM

N64 Module -> will now be a Nintendo/Super Nintendo/Nintendo 64 emulator module, User will have the choice of emulator , all will be touch screen friendly.

Yeah now that's what I'm talking about! The N64 integrated emu is unique, a choice of built in emu's now that will be outstanding!

Keep up the good work.

**GreenBeast** · 08-29-2005, 01:12 PM

i'm also having trouble displaying the exit page as well

basically i can press 'home' and 'exit' as many times as i like in the audio module and it does nothing but if i go to, say, the n64 module and then go exit its fine

this also happens in the home module when i press the centre button to exit. only trouble is if i try to go to audio and then back the screen suddenly flips to exit and i've already pressed the shutdown button (when i really want hibernate)

understand?
any ideas?

**reddeath30** · 08-29-2005, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by GreenBeast

i'm also having trouble displaying the exit page as well

basically i can press 'home' and 'exit' as many times as i like in the audio module and it does nothing but if i go to, say, the n64 module and then go exit its fine

this also happens in the home module when i press the centre button to exit. only trouble is if i try to go to audio and then back the screen suddenly flips to exit and i've already pressed the shutdown button (when i really want hibernate)

understand?
any ideas?

Hmm.. Im not able to recreate this problem. All the menu's seem to work fine for me. Are you switching from one program to the other, then back to Mobile Impact? This sometimes throws the menu's off a tiny bit, but it quickly recovers when you press any of the buttons. Is this the case? or did this happen after you had an error or something?

**GreenBeast** · 08-30-2005, 06:59 AM

no i'm not running any other software. i'll have to have a bit of a muck around with it

**GreenBeast** · 09-01-2005, 11:04 AM

can you add some more hotkeys in the next update?
ideally i'm looking for a hibernate hot key so i can get the shuttle express to hibernate the machine on a button press

**reddeath30** · 09-01-2005, 07:41 PM

Ive been cleaning up the interface this last week. I fixed many little annoying bugs like the vertical scroll bars, and the blinking progress bars are all fixed now. I have also made a breakthrough in the emulator. It is now a single form, that has a directory list that shows all NES, SNES, N64, & GBA roms. When you click on the rom the program opens it in the coinciding emulator. Single interface, basically all Emulators in one. Its really clean and 100% touch screen friendly. I am just running through some minor little bugs before releasing it, either Friday or Tuesday.

**GreenBeast** · 09-02-2005, 07:04 AM

what do you reackon about the extra hotkeys?

it would be really helpful

**reddeath30** · 09-02-2005, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by GreenBeast

what do you reackon about the extra hotkeys?

it would be really helpful

Good idea, Which keys do you think would be best? I want to make keys for the following functions: Exit Program, Hibernate, and Stand By.

Second thought: I dont know, it seems kind of dangerous to have shortcut keys for these functions. If a person has a keyboard attached to their car pc the program exits when a person turns a corner too hard or something because the keyboard slid against something because the right key got hit.

Im going to play with some keyboard combinations and see what I can come up with.