Theme: BlackRoad. 173px AlbumArt and lots of info [iPod 320x240]

[countach]

Hi everybody.

I was using this self modified theme since a long time ago, on a EvilG Build.
Then, I rewrote it for standard build, that was version 1. I's based in the Black Simple theme.

For this Version 2, all has been rewrote to be compatible with RB3.0 and the source is again fully documented.

Maybe it's not so much pretty in the first sight, but for me, it mades me the best rockbox experience, because:

- Uses large AlbumArt. (Up to 173 px)
- Despite the Art using quite big part of the screen, it still shows a lot of info. (Without those nasty scrolls)
- The font could be smaller, but I wanted to keep the reading ability when driving, for instance.
- In this V2, new features had been used to allow differents colors on the screen and font sizes.

Snapshots:



Enjoy!.


Links:

• BlackRoad in the Wiki
• Direct download
• bitbucket.org Mercurial Repository

Version 1 (For older versions of RB)

• Snaps:
  http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/BlackRoad_320x240-wps.png
  http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/BlackRoad_320x240-menu.png
• Version 1 download:
  http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/BlackRoad_v1.0_by_countach_Rockbox_Theme.zip[/size]
  

[docrobert]

i love this theme and use it more than any other.  but with the latest version of rockbox it no longer works.  can this theme please be updated with the latest changes?  thank you in advance to who ever can help

[countach]

Oh, just miss this advice...

I will upgrade my 5.5 to that 3.0 thing and fix the theme as soon as possible. Thanks!


Edit, a few hours later...


And this is it!
OMG, I was using ye old %m tah, had to learn the %V thing and discovered that two fonts can be showed and different colours too...

So here it is:

Snapshots:


Click for Direct Download


Then, I'll put it in the wiki.

[Chronon]

Please make sure to license it with an appropriate license if you want to load it to the theme gallery.  Many authors choose a CC-BY-SA license.

[countach]

Thanks for the help, Chronon.

Everything is done now.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpod5g#BlackRoad

[Chronon]

Thanks.  Looks great!   

[itix]

Great looking theme...

I'd love one without album art.

[LucaBrasi]

I like this theme as well, new to Rockbox, i'd like to know what line i would need to add to display the system time in your theme to 12 hour format. I've seen the page with the different tags, but i'm unsure as to where it would be placed in the necessary category.

Thanks for any help.

[BdN3504]

# DateTime
%V|177|0|143|24|1|777777|-|
%ar%ca, %ce/%cm/%cy  %cH:%cM

change to

# DateTime
%V|177|0|143|24|1|777777|-|
%ar%ca, %ce/%cm/%cy  %?cf<%cH:%cM|%cl:%cM %cP>

This line checks, if you have 12 hour clock enabled (Main Menu->System->Time & Date->Time Format) and then displays the time in this form:
hh:mm AM/PM. delete %cP if you don't wish to display AM/PM; change it to %cp if you wish am/pm displayed in small letters.
read about RTC here.

[LucaBrasi]

Thank you very much for this. Would this be a standard line for themes that display time in the 24 hour format?
Or is the code theme specific? In any event thanks again for the help.

[BdN3504]

You can use this line

%?cf<%cH:%cM|%cl:%cM %cP>

for every theme. just search for the %c tags in the corresponding wps file.

[LucaBrasi]

Thank you for the info, much appreciated.