POLL: Which missing features would you like to see?

[Barney Fife]

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[PhyrePhoX]

hehe barney, you get old, i already wrote that i COULD use the zoombrowser, but thats not really like just shoving in the sdcard, copying some files onto it and off it goes. this wont work if i have the cam at a friends house and i want some pics of his for a slideshow, and he doesnt possess zoombrowser.
about the load/save settings: didnt take a closer look, sorry.

[dzsemx]

i'd like to have some optipons to turn off alt mode  in playback mode (many times i activated accidentally raw mode after making shots with md)and some options to hide battery and time
and some lcd controls would be nice too(A630) or it's not possible by hardware?

[whim]

Hi !

Swapping out CHDK versions from within CHDK

Above quoted poll item got me thinking ...
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...that it should be relatively simple to do by profiting from the fact that we can put at least 2 versions on a card  - a boot.bin and a ps.fir ;  we 'just' need to make sure that the Swapper ( (c)GPL  )  could basically maintain a CFG and a LANG (well ... maybe the whole CHDK dir ) for each version ; we could have as many xxx.fir's as we like, Swapper let's you chooose one, renames it to PS.FIR. It also renames associated files, of course ....Swapper then quits, you press <Alt> and "soft boot the good ol' Canon way " into your chosen version .... which of course contains the swapper too, etc.
Number of CHDK's per session should only be limited by the cardspace your willing to offer to it; maybe a little indicator ?
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Hm... 4% - let me know what you think (project, anyone ?  )

wim

PS This kind of mods would of course be much easier if we had ubasic scriptable usermenu's ...
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[wontolla]

Swapping out CHDK versions from within CHDK

We can also select the build you want in the file browser and have a function that can copy/rename the .fir file. I guess as CHDK is already loaded there is no problem with it. Then you only have to turn off and on the camera.

[kwf]

Some quite nice ideas. Some really crazy ideas, like "Download photos to Flash-drive (w/o PC tether)". I want to see that one without additional hardware, wouldn't that require to implement an usb host mode? Thats, challenging But who knows, maybe the DIGIC is prepared for that

However, i have some more (some next to impossible) ideas:
- USB Host to have the possibility to add WLAN sticks, Bluetooth, GPS ...
- Try to find a UART debug port on the camera mainboard and (internal) attach extensions (e.g. bluetooth there)
- Possibility to control Canon slave flashes (e.g. 430EX)
- Strobe mode for flash (even if thats possible, it probably would be very dim)
- OCR with translation, e.g. for chinese characters would be interesting
- Support for Canon camcorders (e.g. HV20 with digic DV II), think that will be hard without firmware... only the XL-H1 has a firmware update available...
- Support for Canon DSLRs
- ELF loader (allowing to load additional programs to CHDK without compiling the whole thing).
- Doom

Want to hear some more?

[deancw]

[fudgey]

Please tell me that CHDK will soon allow me to Optically zoom an A720 while shooting in movie mode. I would think this is an easy one.

Are you already familiar with Video zoom and focus script? (No, I haven't tried these on my camera and don't know anything about compatibility with yours).

[strela]

Did anyone tried to make it possible shoot with camera while being connected to PC by USB cable, and showing real-time picture on PC's monitor (camera should work something like web-cam and when you take a picture its shown on monitor)?

Best regards.

[m2tk]

Did anyone tried to make it possible shoot with camera while being connected to PC by USB cable, and showing real-time picture on PC's monitor (camera should work something like web-cam and when you take a picture its shown on monitor)?

there is a software for remote capture included in ZoomBrowser...

as of The Poll: may i have file editor/notepad?

[wontolla]

Regarding a notepad, I think it would be easy to program (I hope I don't bite my own tongue later)

My question is: Is it really needed?

Because it would be a pain in the axe, to select every symbol from some kind of list or alphabet using the pad. I mean, we don't have a touch screen like the PDAs do we?
The only use I see is to make small changes in a script or something.

Any idea to justify a notepad in CHDK?

[kwf]

Regarding a notepad, I think it would be easy to program (I hope I don't bite my own tongue later)

My question is: Is it really needed?

Because it would be a pain in the axe, to select every symbol from some kind of list or alphabet using the pad. I mean, we don't have a touch screen like the PDAs do we?
The only use I see is to make small changes in a script or something.

Any idea to justify a notepad in CHDK?

I only want one, if someone implements an interface to attach a keyboard

Even this isn't impossible ... someone already implemented a serial interface based on the USB remote code...

would be pretty "cool" to carry a full size PS/2 keyboard to operate your camera

[ewavr]

I only want one, if someone implements an interface to attach a keyboard

Even this isn't impossible ... someone already implemented a serial interface based on the USB remote code...

would be pretty "cool" to carry a full size PS/2 keyboard to operate your camera

We can use "palette browser" for ASCII input just now (with small modification) 

[m2tk]

may i have file editor/notepad?

i thought of a little bit more "script intelligent" one with list of uBasic keywords/macros, so all you need to write are variable names and literals. Sth like proposals/macros with Ctrl+Space in Eclipse IDE.

More to add/change sth into the script than writing new one.
 

[Barney Fife]

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