Customizing the WPS--school project

[mike_302]

Hi,
As you can see from the title, I'm trying to instal rockbox on my ipod nano 1GB 1st Gen, and then I want to customize the WPS to use my own visual elements. I think that what I would PREFER to do is to use someone's pre-made theme and then change the graphics myself to elements that I make in... say, photoshop? And to throw in some more creativity, I'd like to then learn to modify the position of different objects/elements, or rename the buttons/links. My partner is fairly knowledgable on programming stuff like JAVA and turing (not going ot help here... or anywhere... but still, shows skill) so I am confident he can do some of that without hesitation, but basically I need to learn how to take someone's theme that I download, and then open it up to the .WPS file so i can edit it.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Edit:

And now that I know what WPS STANDS for.... I have a question about that. In the gallery section I see that they're showing off a customized "while-playing screen" as well as a customized menu... The list says rockbox at the top, then lists games, now playing, settings, etc. below it... What exactly counts as the while playing screen?

[Mikerman]

The WPS is the screen that generally displays when a song or text file is playing, that typically lists information pertinent to the song/file:   the name of the song/file, album, artist, song duration and position in the song, etc.  Although with Rockbox, you can program the WPS to display none of this, if you so desire.  That's one of the joys of Rockbox.

Good WPS sources of information:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CustomWPS
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SimpleGuideToWPSMaking

[cool_walking_]

The menu styling is done with a theme.  A WPS is just one component of a theme.  A theme is simply a .cfg file.  The format is described here:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CustomConfigFile

[UnholyNewbkilla]

To edit the wps open it up in notepad. You should see like lines name of the image and numbers.The numbers represent the position of the image or object.
%X|Background.bmp|0|0| Starts at pixel 0 by 0
%P|progress bar.bmp|Starts where ever the progress bar is programed. Usually you can change it at the bottom of the wps file.
%xl|a|battery4.bmp|143|2| Battery (Full)
%xl|b|battery3.bmp|143|2|
%xl|c|battery2.bmp|143|2|
%xl|d|battery1.bmp|143|2|
%xl|e|battery.bmp|143|2|
%xl|f|pause.bmp|21|196|
%xl|g|volume.bmp|3|3|
%xl|h|volume1.bmp|3|3|
%xl|i|volume2.bmp|3|3|
%xl|j|volume3.bmp|3|3|
%xl|k|volume4.bmp|3|3|
%xl|l|volume5.bmp|3|3|
%xl|m|volume6.bmp|3|3|
%xl|n|volume7.bmp|3|3|
%xl|o|volume8.bmp|3|3|
%xl|p|volume9.bmp|3|3|
%xl|q|volume10.bmp|3|3|
%xl|r|volume11.bmp|3|3|
%xl|s|volume12.bmp|3|3|
%xl|t|volume13.bmp|3|3|
%xl|u|volume14.bmp|3|3|
%xl|v|volume15.bmp|3|3|
%xl|w|volume16.bmp|3|3|
%xl|x|volume17.bmp|3|3|
%xl|y|volume18.bmp|3|3|
%xl|z|volume19.bmp|3|3|
%xl|A|volume20.bmp|3|3|
%xl|B|rep_song.bmp|116|4|
%xl|C|Reapeat.bmp|116|4|
%xl|D|rep_ab.bmp|116|4|
%xl|E|shuffle.bmp|89|4|
%wd (Ending)

That was a wps file opened in notepad. In fact it is my Halo 3 rockbox theme.