176x220 (sansa) BlackGlass update

[mschneider]

I've updated my original BlackGlass (Anemone) theme because the tags no longer work and the graphics are kind of crappy. This new theme has most of the backgrounds from the ipod blackglass theme and now displays next song info as long a new bar at the top.
 

Input would be greatly appreciated as to what should be added (e.g. track info) or removed. I'm working on an album art build and that will be uploaded along with the original. Thanks!

[digerati1338]

if you just include album art support in your WPS there are plenty of builds that support it including my digibuild, cpchan's build, and chrisjs's build.  

The bmp resize patch works too now so album art resizing can be implemented in WPS.  It is very simple to do.

[suprman2020]

It's a very good theme.
One of the best I've seen so far.

[mschneider]

So no need to add any track info?

Also, does the bmp re-size really work now? The album art page in the wiki says it does not...

[lights0ut]

BMP resize used to be included in the album art patch. It is now available as a separate patch, so if your build has the BMP resize patch, then resizing will work

[mschneider]

(please excuse my ignorance) How exactly does the bmp resize work? Do you just patch it and it automatically resizes images according to your wps?

[lights0ut]

BMP resize is like any other patch, you can apply it to source code and then compile a build with new the new feature of BMP resize. Patches are not applied one at a time to the binary (rockbox.gigabeat etc.), but applied all at once to source code, and then a build is compiled for a specific device.
For an intro to patches, and how to build Rockbox see: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SimpleGuideToCompiling

The patch allows the album art tag to give Rockbox instructions on how to resize the BMP for display
example:

%Cl|10|20|s150|s150|
%C

without BMP resize this would require all BMP's to be 150x150
what the patch does is put the code in place to understand what to do with the 's' characters, which are telling the WPS to scale the image to 150 (either shrink or stretch).

I have very little knowledge of C so I can't tell you exactly how the patch works in terms of computer code.

[X86]

hmmmm...does this theme is finished or in last stages?,I'm waiting for this theme it looks great,has a better look,great job.

[RedBreva]

It's online at
http://www.rockbox-themes.org/data/176x220x16/BlackGlass_(Anemone).zip

[X86]

it looks great,I used it and its more confortable the look,great job done.

[cvitullo]

i would recommend taking the date out of the top bar in the now playing screen. if you really want it, put it at the bottom, right above the duration thing.
also, if you could stylize the battery meter it would look better.

VERY good theme. i was using the old one too.