Sorry to keep posting new stuff, I just assume that somebody out there cares :)
The skins now have "pages", so when you start the player it will be on page0, which could be a playlist select screen, with animated icons and everything, then you tap on the playlist and it'll bring you to the actual media player interface (play, pause, fft, etc)
And skin objects can now respond and create ANY event the player supports, so when the player increments an animation frame (its an event, so why not?) you could generate a fake stylus tap somewhere on the screen... Why you would want to do this, i dont know, but you could :)
You can also enable/disable skin events and objects, and change which sprite an object uses....
This format is going to be a huge pain to document, but its very versitile, since it controls basicly how every bit of the player accts!!!
The Skin format is binary (faster, smaller) so you'll have to "compile" them on your pc then upload/distribute/etc, the "human" skin descriptor will most likley be XML and the skin compiler will work on windows/linux/unix/osx/whatever
--jbit
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I will also test it. I think that it would be awesome. I also dont understand the remote. PM me and i will give you my email or whatever because i deffinatly want to test it.
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What about giving the player the ability to add files to the playlist that are sitting on the computer.....I play a lot of MP3s over my wireless network and I have not found a single player yet that will allow me to make a playlist of songs on a networked drive.....I have to click in Recso Explorer after each song to get the next song to load.
A remote that uses RS-232 sounds like a lot of trouble. RS232 on the Axim requires a serial cable with circuitry. Maybe you'd want to use some other approach? Personally that doesn't sound so useful to me.
The Axim's Serial port requires no hardware if you use it at 3.3v or 5v (can't remember which) it's only the "standard" 12v (that pc's use) that needs the special hardware. (I know this from the Intel Xscale manuals) the little dongle in Dell's serial cable just cranks the axim->pc signals up and the pc->axim signals down... And i'm not sure but Dell might have bought some GPIO pins out on the bottom connector, so i could use those...
Anyway, the idea of the remote was so you could change tracks, etc at a train station or other crowded place without getting the axim out of your pocket... I don't know about anybody else, but when i get my axim out in a crowded station i feel like i have a big "Target" sign above my head, or maybe that's just England :) hehe
It might be possible to use bluetooth too, but i don't have much info on bluetooth, so... :)
Errr.. and there will be network support ("normal" windows shares and some decent protocols (ftp, ftp over ssh, etc)) since this is something that i'd find useful..
Another thing i think would be REALLY cool is when you get home from college/work or whatever, your pda talks wirelessly to your computer (as it does) and tells it to play/seek to the location your axim is currently playing. So you can just walk in and take your headphones off and your computer will be playing the song you were listening too... I just thought that sort of thing would be REALLY cool :)
and... just to respond to everything ...
I'm using a mix between Embedded Visual Studio (the free one on microsofts site) and GCC to program this... and the code will be open source... and completley 100% and absolutley free [People usualy pirate things like this anyway :)]..
and... Since the computing course I'm doing all revolves around windows, and techinically this is a windows (CE) program, I might be able to work on it in my computing classes, so that would be cool :)
Anyway, thanks for everybodys feedback, sorry I havn't done much work, as I said, i've been busy at at college and have other (higher priority) projects, and forgot about it a bit, sorry :)
--jbit
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hey, jw if u needed any help. i dont know visual basic yet but will be learning it this year, possibly this quarter, and so may be able to help you if you need any, not sure what ill be able to do yet, but ill keep you posted once i feel i know enough of it. just about done with c++ though.
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hey, this sounds great. I hope you add streaming audio support, and ability to add/open files outside of just the my documents. cant wait to try it out, good luck with the rest!
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