Writing a menu for VHBL

[Acid_Snake]

nice, it's becoming clearer for me each time. one more question: where is ebootPath imported from? or is declared in the go?
edit: what is the counterpart of dlls for psp?

[wololo]

Ebootpath is a pointer to one of the elements in the api struct. Check the sample code at the first post:
ebootPath = (void *) settings->filename;

It is the same on the vita and the psp.

[m0skit0]

edit: what is the counterpart of dlls for psp?

DLLs are only and exclusively for Windows, and they're far from being standard. They are dynamically loaded libraries. The equivalent on PSP are PRXs, but PRXs can also be executables. PSP, like most *IX systems, uses ELF format (which kind of standard for every OS except Windows) for both executables and libraries.

[wth]

The command we write is usually the path to an eboot (to run a homebrew), but can also be the string "quit" if we want to ask HBL to qui back to the XMB:

To quit:

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strcpy(ebootPath, "quit");
sceKernelExitGame();


The problem is about all HBL binaries really do attempt a call to sceKernelExitGame() when quitting, and this produces a nasty error on PSVita, which then gets logged on the system's error historic ..
So we shouldn't ever tell HBL to quit on a vita menu imho

[wololo]

The one from the menu is hooked by hbl, it never gets to the system, except when people actually want to quit the menu itself.

[wth]

The one from the menu is hooked by hbl, it never gets to the system, except when people actually want to quit the menu itself.

I know I don't speak about the call in the menu itself, but about the "quit" string

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strcpy(ebootPath, "quit");


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    //...otherwise launch the menu
    while (!exit)
    {
        int initial_free_ram = sceKernelTotalFreeMemSize();
        //Load default config
        loadGlobalConfig();
        //run menu
        run_menu();
        wait_for_eboot_end();
        cleanup(num_lib);
        ramcheck(initial_free_ram);
        if (strcmp("quit", g->hb_filename) == 0 || g->exit_callback_called){
            exit = 1;
            continue;
        }
       
        initial_free_ram = sceKernelTotalFreeMemSize();
        char filename[512];
        strcpy(filename, g->hb_filename);
        LOGSTR1("Eboot is: %s\n", (u32)filename);
        //re-Load default config
        loadGlobalConfig();
        LOGSTR0("Config Loaded OK\n");
        LOGSTR1("Eboot is: %s\n", (u32)filename);
        //run homebrew
        run_eboot(filename, 1);
        LOGSTR0("Eboot Started OK\n");
        wait_for_eboot_end();
        cleanup(num_lib);
        ramcheck(initial_free_ram);
        if (g->exit_callback_called)
         exit = 1;     
    }
   
   sceKernelExitGame();
   
   return 0;
}

I mean this sceKernelExitGame inside hbl produces a nasty error on PSVita, which then gets logged on the system's error historic ..
So we shouldn't ever tell HBL to quit with the "quit" string on a vita menu imho (like the triangle button on wmenu)

[wololo]

Well, we are not going to rewrite every single homebrew anyway, it's ot only about the menus. It would be much better to hook the cal inside HBL with a void function, in that case. Or a function that displays an "error" of some sort.

[wth]

I also just found this http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php? ... eae4389fee : AnonymousTipster's zip/rar unpacker's source code
[...]
Also about unzipToDir,
it changes the current working directory to the output folder you mention, so it could be good to change current directory back to normal after it if you're using relative paths

Update :
Just fixed unzipToDir to stop using chdir which changed the current working path, and also compiled this unzip/unrar lib statically to make it easier

Here's the lib's static binary + header & src (sample included) : http://www.mediafire.com/?987ejimjiswz453


Nb : For it to extract homebrews correctly on PSVita, you still have to make the lib replace all EBOOT.PBP names with wmenu.bin ones, since we can't create EBOOT.PBP files on PSVita
I personally already have done that, but I'll let you guys modify the src accordingly and recompile it, really easy