dcplaya is more than a simple music player. It is a full development enviroment and nearly an operating system. Simple dcplaya users do not need to understand everything on dcplaya operating system.
- First help
Basically it is possible to control dcplaya with either any controller (connected in any port) or a keyboard controller.
- Controlling dcplaya
- The controller
button or ENTER key on the keyboard is called confirm because you should use it to confirm any action. It works like a mouse button left click on your favorite window manager.
- The controller
button or ESC key on the keyboard is called cancel. The cancel action has many behaviours depending on the application. In most case it allow you quit a dialog without doing anything. In the song-browser application the cancel action depends on the focused window (either filelist or playlist). If the filelist window is focused cancel action will stop the current music from playing. If the playlist is focused the cancel action will delete the cursor entry without any warning.
- The controller
button or BACKSPACE key on the keyboard is called menu. The menu action opens the contextual menu. Contextual means that the content of the menu depends on the current selected item. It works like a mouse button right click on your favorite window manager. When the focused application is the desktop application, the menu action opens the selected application main menu.
- The controller
button or PRINT-SCREEN key on the keyboard is called ??? (well, it does not have official name, I just call it toggle here). The toggle action toggles the desktop application. This means that toggle action will open or close the desktop application if respectively it is currently close or open. The desktop application is one og the top most important application of dcplaya window manager. It allows you to choose the focused application. and that is where you have access to the application's main menu.
- Author:
- benjamin gerard