Sansa e200 WPS does not display themes...

[Sup3rkirby]

Yes, this is a noob question, just so you know.  Leave now if you are not going to help me.

So obviously, I'm new to RockBox, and right now I'm trying to figure out how to change the While Playing Screen theme.  I have downloaded some good themes, and I apply them, and I can see the changes, but that is just for my menus.  The themes I downloaded showed some nice WPS images too(partly why I got them).

So how do you change the WPS theme then?  I have been searching the forums and I didn't see anything in the manual.  I'm sorry if I missed something that tells me how.  If I did, simply make a kind remark and direct me to the proper page.

[scorche]

Well, what is happening?...does the font change?...does the WPS not change at all or does it look different?

As well, saying "Leave now if you are not going to help me." is quite unnecessary...

[Sup3rkirby]

I don't think the comment was unnecessary because I have seen post on this forum where someone comes and just makes a comment, rather than help the poster.

And as for what happens.  I'm sure you've seen the basic, default WPS.  Well, that is the screen I am left with.  It does not change the font, background, colors, etc.  It is simply the default WPS, even after I have changed the theme in RockBox.

[Sup3rkirby]

No, no. My apologies. It seems that upon closer inspection, the font is changing.  Just not the WPS.  The fonts looked similar to me and so I didn't notice at first.

But I'm afriad this topic is done.  While playing around with my new sansa w/ RockBox, I discovered that the WPS is changed by going into 'Settings -> General Settings -> Display' and then choosing 'Browse .wps files'

Then once a .wps file is chosen, that screen is changed.  I didn't realize you could have a main them as well as a seperate one just for the WPS.  Since I'm new and have only seen the two packaged together, I just figured it was a global theme, and had to remain that way.

I apologize for having this posted when I was only to discover my problem and solution.  But like I said, I am new to this and this was a noob question.  So much of one that I was able to solve it myself.

But I still have an unanswered question, which is: why do only some of the .wps files work and some don't?  When choosing a .wps file, Some will load, and then I can see the change, while some others will load, but then I only see the default WPS, instead of the new WPS i selected?  Is this still just some issue?  Or is it in the .wps coding?  Or perhaps some other issue I have no idea about.

[scorche]

If there are errors in the .wps file coding, then it will not load, much like how when compiling, the compile will fail if there are errors.

And it was unnecessary as it carried a rude overtone.  As well, it implies that we do not help "noobs".  The comments that you saw were likely because the poster violated our guidelines in some way and it was to point out to them their error and to ask them if they would be more careful next time.  Speaking of which, we prefer it if people would use the modify button instead of double posting.  

[rmahoney]

But I still have an unanswered question, which is: why do only some of the .wps files work and some don't?  When choosing a .wps file, Some will load, and then I can see the change, while some others will load, but then I only see the default WPS, instead of the new WPS i selected?  Is this still just some issue?  Or is it in the .wps coding?  Or perhaps some other issue I have no idea about.

  Some themes/wps need special patches to work such as themes with album art for example.  The themes usually state what patches or special builds are needed to work correctly.  If you run those themes on the regular rockbox build, you will see the default wps.

[crzyboyster]

at rockbox-themes.org, it will say for the wps you want whether or not you can just use a daily build or a patched build. the themes you are trying to use are for a patched build. either get a patched build or get the non patched wps's.

[tycho1974]

No, no. My apologies. It seems that upon closer inspection, the font is changing.  Just not the WPS.  The fonts looked similar to me and so I didn't notice at first.

But I'm afriad this topic is done.  While playing around with my new sansa w/ RockBox, I discovered that the WPS is changed by going into 'Settings -> General Settings -> Display' and then choosing 'Browse .wps files'

Then once a .wps file is chosen, that screen is changed.  I didn't realize you could have a main them as well as a seperate one just for the WPS.  Since I'm new and have only seen the two packaged together, I just figured it was a global theme, and had to remain that way.

I apologize for having this posted when I was only to discover my problem and solution.  But like I said, I am new to this and this was a noob question.  So much of one that I was able to solve it myself.

But I still have an unanswered question, which is: why do only some of the .wps files work and some don't?  When choosing a .wps file, Some will load, and then I can see the change, while some others will load, but then I only see the default WPS, instead of the new WPS i selected?  Is this still just some issue?  Or is it in the .wps coding?  Or perhaps some other issue I have no idea about.

Yeah, I don't have that option. I have a Sansa e260 running the latest build as of 06/24/08, and I have the same issue with the WPS not showing up. But I don't have a "Browse .WPS Files" in my Display Settings dialogue. My WPS just looks like plain text that takes up the top half of the screen only (with the exception of only a couple themes: iCatcher, Cabbiev2). Anyone have any ideas?

[ZincAlloy]

nearly all WPSs are broken because of this monday's updates.

[tycho1974]

Hrm. I was camping until Tuesday. What did Monday's release do?

[LambdaCalculus]

Monday's updates were for conditional viewports. There's a few threads on the forums regarding this, and you can also see the updates in the Subversion updates on the front page.

[ZincAlloy]

here: http://www.rockbox.org/since25.html

[tycho1974]

Again, please excuse my ignorance; I just started using RockBox last night, and as such, I'm not at all familiar with any jargon/syntax/technical terms associated with the software. I'm able to get it working, and I love it, and I've downloaded some themes with some pretty cool displays. I have no idea what a conditional viewport is, but I get the impression that the WPS issues I'm having will be addressed/fixed in future builds, is that correct?

I'd like to see the album art and nice displays on the WPS, but I don't want to go through the trouble of converting enough folder.jpg files for 65GB of music into the appropriate .bmp files if I can't even see them...

Thanks for the quick replies, by the way; there are a lot of very helpful people here, and it's much appreciated.

[MarcGuay]

The only thing I can suggest (explaining everything specifically for you would take forever and might be more confusing than helpful) is to read through the wiki, particularly the CustomWPS page for these particular questions.  It might take a few days of poking around the website to get used to the terms of the project but it's not that complicated, just give it some time to sink in. 

Basically, a change was made to the language of the WPS screens recently which caused most of those posted on the wiki themes page to stop working as intended.  So you can either figure out the language and update them to make them work again, wait for the original author to fix them, or simply use other themes which do work.

[tycho1974]

Aha! Now that I can wrap my head around. This makes sense, because one or two of the themes I've downloaded work, and the rest show me that plain WPS. I'll see if I can figure out some of the WPS file syntax and fiddle around with it...Thanks for your help, but I'll keep poking around here as well...