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The other day I was watching a video (in native) and couldn't remember how to rewind I forgotten to copy the Quick Ref from http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoo-hardware-general/quick-reference-card/ on to my Dingoo. So today I've been looking at quick refs for controls.

If you are using Dingux with gmenu2x, you have the option of binding a readme to an icon/app. In native you can use the text reader for reading readmes that are in text format. Meneer Jansen's has a good format for text, you list controls with double newlines, e.g.


Template Controls for Dingoo A320
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    Up          : Up
    
    LeftRight   : LeftRight
    
    Down        : Down
    
    Start       : Start
    
    Select      : Select
    
    A           : A
    
    B           : B
    
    X           : X
    
    Y           : Y
    
    R           : Shoulder button R
    
    L           : Shoulder button L
    
    Power       : Power button/slider

I've hacked up a quick-n-dirty command line Python script (known to work with python 2.5, should work with any 2.x version) to take text files and generate different output. The idea being that you dump the txt file on the dingoo, and then take the output of the script to make Pretty output for web pages/printing. E.g. I used the script to generate a chart for Oh Boy, see http://code.google.com/p/ohboy/wiki/DingooOhBoy

It supports Google Code wiki format, it has experimental Dingoonity wiki output see http://dingoowiki.com/index.php?title=NativeMoviePlayer for an example (this uses the template from http://dingoowiki.com/index.php?title=Editing:Guidelines), the table needs to have "|}" manually added so this isn't 100% but it is still useful.

It also has experimental Dingoonity forum format too (same problem, you have to add a close table tag by hand at the end of the table". Here is an example for the native movie player:

Native Movie Controls for Dingoo A320
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    Up          : Volume
    
    LeftRight   : Prev./next video
    
hold LeftRight  : Search / Rewind/Fast forward
    
    Down        : Volume
    
    Start       : Start
    
    Select      : Select
    
    A           : Zoom modes!
    
    B           : B
    
    X           : OSD
    
    Y           : Y
    
    R           : Pause/resume
    
    Start + L   : TV out
    
    Power       : Power button/slider

Which generates:

Native Movie Controls for Dingoo A320
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	Prev./next video
hold	Search / Rewind/Fast forward
	Volume
	Start
	Select
	Zoom modes!
	B
	OSD
	Y
	Pause/resume
+	TV out
Power	Power button/slider

This makes use of Dingoo Wiki icons (I think by the user Athlon4011).

The forum output isn't great but it is the easiest wy to show what it looks like (check out the wiki and google code link, they are much prettier).

I've attached the python script (rename .txt to .py), it isn't pretty but it mostly works You have to have buttons first, separated with " : " then the description.

[edited with wiki example link]