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spinal
Created : 18 December 2007
 

Need advice on menu controls.
If anyone here does not know, I'm coding a loverly loader menu for the DS. At the moment its working just fine, but I'm planning a couple more features for it and I need some advice on the controls.

Currently in the .ini file the user can set the default directory for where the loader starts navigation from. I am planning to add a couple more folders to the list, allowing the user to easily navigate through specific folders, e.g. Apps, Games, MP3s. I was thinking of using the L/R buttons to cycle through these folders, so hitting R will change the icon dock to shoe the next folder (in the list) and R the previous one. Also I was thinking of adding a smaller (perhaps auto hiding) dock (non animating) at the top of the touch screen, perhaps triggered by the Select button or something, containing a mixture of built-in features, like booting GBA, reset, power off and some user added shortcuts (either forcing the .nds files to be in the skin folder, OR having full path shortcuts in the .ini file).

Also can anyone think of any information that could be displayed on the top screen?

 

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