name & address/phone on ipod video

[Flippy112]

Is there a EASY way to place your name and address or other personal information on my ipod video 30gb on the rockbox boot screen?

thanks

[lights0ut]

There is a program on misticriver here that you can use to switch the boot image of the rockbox.ipod file.

After you get the program you will need 2 things:
1. the original bootsplash (if you're using a current build you can grab the imagefrom svn)
2. The image you want to replace the original, which must be a .bmp (16bit or 24bit will do) I don't the size matters, but it cannot be bigger than 320x240.

good luck with that

On a side note, is there/should there be,  a wiki page for this program? It seems a lot of people would make use of it.

[Llorean]

Well, someone could also just implement a patch to load that boot splash from file, instead of compiling it in, and then no program would be needed. Someone went about this a long and complicated way, rather than simply fixing the actual problem (that the boot splash is compiled in rather than themable.)

Wouldn't you too prefer that themes could include different boot splashes each?

[ColdSphinx]

I can have a look at this after my final exams (this week).
We already have everything needed to load bitmaps so it shouldn't be very hard.
But if we implement it than is the question should it be a fullscren bitmap or just the current size of the logos?
Because I already heared in a discussion that it shouldn't be fulscreen but there where nothing of external logo files (just about logopatches).

[Llorean]

I believe that if Rockbox loads a file from disk for the image, it should be a fullscreen bitmap. This way it allows the user to have whatever they want on the screen, "wherever" they want it (by use of transparency or whitespace) rather easily.

But that's definitely up for discussion, right now the best bet should just be to mirror the existing behaviour, but rather than compiling the image in, load it from /.rockbox/bootsplash or something similar, and preferably be settable via config file.

[lights0ut]

Well, someone could also just implement a patch to load that boot splash from file, instead of compiling it in, and then no program would be needed. Someone went about this a long and complicated way, rather than simply fixing the actual problem (that the boot splash is compiled in rather than themable.)

Wouldn't you too prefer that themes could include different boot splashes each?

I've always thought that it would be nice to load the bootsplash from disk, but I've never really cared too much for it. (I do compile my builds with custom bootsplashes, but as with most things in Rockbox, it's not a critical feature) Now that you mention the idea of setting a bootsplash through a theme, that makes a lot of sense and would really enhance the eyecandy of rockbox. I suppose there might be some issue with having to remove the revision # from the bootscreen, but IIRC the first question asked about a bug is "does this happen with the current build?" so really, the revision # is irrelevant.

edit: ColdSphinx, good luck with coding for that, and with your final exams

[ColdSphinx]

MadCow, good luck with coding for that, and with your final exams

I'm not MadCow but thanks (the half of my exams are over).
I've had already changed my own build to display a fulscreen logo on the maindisplay and the remotedisplay and to overlay the current versionnumber. I will make that new feature on a clean build, but I've already most of the changes ready, I think (or hope ; ) ).

[lights0ut]

Sorry CS, for some reason I'm always mixing the two of you up  

[Llorean]

The revision number could still be drawn on the screen if the bootsplash had transparency there, and if not it's always viewable through the System menu's version option.

[lights0ut]

The revision number could still be drawn on the screen if the bootsplash had transparency there, and if not it's always viewable through the System menu's version option.

Oh, right forgot about the menu

[ColdSphinx]

I played a little bit around with the code and there is something that could prevent the full repeacement of the included logo by a loadable.
I changed the code so it always tryes to load an external bitmap for the logo. But it always fails to load exept while upddating database
Now, I'm thinking of an costomlogo after the defaultlogo (with a short sleep) but that isn't the way I prefer to include an loadable logo and I don't want to reorder the init procedures.