Alternating sublines not working/being buggy with new left margin tag!

[crzyboyster]

I've been porting your cabbie default theme to the nano. I want to put in an alternating subline for the next song title, album and artist with a delay of 4 seconds. I am not very familiar with the newer tags (left margin, album art, etc.) and am having difficulty. I was hoping that someone could help me. attached is the code and the latest screenshot. Can someone please help me? Then I will be done with it and be able to post it.



[WPS Code]

# cabbie 2.0 default
# (C) 2007, Johannes Voggenthaler (Zinc Alloy)#derived from "cabbie" (C) Yohann Misquitta
%wd
%P|pb.bmp|
%X|wpsbackdrop.bmp|0|0|
%xl|A|lockclosed.bmp|70|115|
%xl|B|lockopen.bmp|70|115|
%xl|C|battpl.bmp|88|117|
%xl|D|battch.bmp|88|117|
%xl|E|batt00.bmp|88|117|
%xl|F|batt01.bmp|88|117|
%xl|G|batt02.bmp|88|117|
%xl|H|batt03.bmp|88|117|
%xl|I|batt04.bmp|88|117|
%xl|J|batt05.bmp|88|117|
%xl|K|batt06.bmp|88|117|
%xl|L|batt07.bmp|88|117|
%xl|M|vol0.bmp|106|117|
%xl|N|vol1.bmp|106|117|
%xl|O|vol2.bmp|106|117|
%xl|P|vol4.bmp|106|117|
%xl|Q|shuffle.bmp|123|117|
%xl|R|repeatall.bmp|142|113|
%xl|S|repeatone.bmp|142|113|
%xl|T|repeatshuffle.bmp|142|113|
%xl|U|repeatab.bmp|142|113|
%xl|V|stop.bmp|159|115|
%xl|W|play.bmp|159|115|
%xl|X|pause.bmp|159|115|
%xl|Y|ff.bmp|159|115|
%xl|Z|rew.bmp|159|115|
%Cl|10|16|s65|s65|
%pb|5|9|168|87|
#NowPlaying
%?C<%s%m|80|%al%?ia<%ia|%?d2<%d2|(root)>>|%s%ac%?ia<%ia|%?d2<%d2|(root)>>>
%?C<%s%m|80|%al%?it<%it|%fn>|%s%ac%?it<%it|%fn>>
%?C<%s%m|80|%al%?id<%id|%?d1<%d1|(root)>>|%s%ac%?id<%id|%?d1<%d1|(root)>>>


%?C<%s%m|80|%al%?It<%It|%fn>|%s%ac%?It<%It|%fn>>

%al   %pc  %ar %pr
%?mh<%xdA|%xdB>
%?bp<%?bc<%xdD|%xdC>|%?bl<|%xdE|%xdF|%xdG|%xdH|%xdI|%xdJ|%xdK|%xdL>>
%?pv<%xdM|%xdN|%xdO|%xdP|>%?ps<%xdQ>
%?mm<|%xdR|%xdS|%xdT|%xdU>
%?mp<%xdV|%xdW|%xdX|%xdY|%xdZ>%?C<%C>


The red part is where the next line info is and the alternating subline is supposed to be, but if I try it out with the code in the wps guide in the same format, the whole WPS becomes invalid! Please help me solve my problem!


Clean copy of wps file attached as text document

[pixelma]

Could you also give the line with the alternating subline code?

I don't know how you want it to look and what code you tried there, so it's impossible to help you or find out if there really is an issue with the left margin in alternating sublines. Need to say I haven't tried the %m yet (let alone alternating sublines with it); I'm not sure if or how they are supposed to work.

[crzyboyster]

Well, the place I want the alternating subline to happen is the red highlighted text.

Here's what I have been trying:

%?C<%s%m|80|%al%?It<%It|%fn>;%al%s%t4%Ia|%s%ac%?It<%It|%fn>;%ac%s%t4%Ia>

I've done alternating sublines before and it worked fine, but after inputting this text, rockbox goes back to its default wps. After removing the alternating part, it works fine.

Can any wps guru help me out with this line?

[psycho_maniac]

The only thing i can think of is to take out each part of the line one at a time  or have you done this already?

[MarcGuay]

I played around a bit and this line works fine:

%s%t4%It;%s%t4%Ia

But this one doesn't:

%?C<%s%t4%It;%s%t4%Ia|%s%t4%It;%s%t4%Ia>

Which leads me to believe that the alternating sublines aren't compatible with the album cover conditional.

[crzyboyster]

So, what can I do about this? Is there a way to fix it or commit a fix into SVN?

Thanks

[MarcGuay]

So, what can I do about this? Is there a way to fix it or commit a fix into SVN?

You could play around with it until it works.  Ugly but functional:

%s%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Ia%

You're going to have to tweak this yourself so it displays the file name if there's no song title.

[crzyboyster]

Wow, that works perfectly for me! Only problem is that I want it to display the next track, album AND artist. Here's the code I tried, it only displays track and album, anyone know why?

%s%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Ia%;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Id%>

And by the way, sorry guys! I'm just not very familiar with the newer tags and how to go about modifying them.

Another issue is that at the end of the album name it displays a ">" character at the end of the name.
I attached a screenshot with the problem shown. What's the problem with that?

Thanks a whole lot!

[ZincAlloy]

try this:

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%s%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Ia%;%?C<%m|80||%ac%t4%Id%>

[crzyboyster]

Sorry, ZincAlloy, that just breaks the wps...
Anyone else know what to do?

[ZincAlloy]

whoops, removed the wrong bracket.
how about this:

%s%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Ia%;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Id%

[PaulJam]

%s%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Ia%;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%t4%Id%
What are the %'s at the end of the second and third subline for? The parser doesn't seem to like them.

[crzyboyster]

Sorry, ZincAlloy, that doesn't make any difference at all. I messed around with the line some more and I think I made some amount of progress. The center screen (without album art) still looks the same (attached) and the album art screen shows all 3 (album, track and title), but it's messed up in another way (attached). Another thing that should be noted is that the centered screen still doesn't show all 3, it just shows the first 2 in the code!

Here's my new line of code:

%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%Ia%;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%Id%>

I'm willing to send the entire theme to someone if they can manage to debug it in a simulator, I just want this theme finished.

Thanks a lot!

[pixelma]

%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%Ia%;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%Id%>

You still have the stray % around as PaulJam pointed out. The first one marked red will be read as "show the semicolon" together with the following ; and not as a subline divider, so you actually defined only two sublines not three. The last one is interpreted together with the > as "show the greater than sign" and the conditional already is closed after the %ac (see "Other Tags" in the CustomWPS). Hope that if you get rid of all that's marked red it will work.

[crzyboyster]

Thanks a lot guys! Especially MarcGuay, pixelma and ZincAlloy (who made the original version). It's working perfectly now!

For other people to use, here's the code that finally worked:

%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%It;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%Id;%?C<%m|80||%ac>%s%t3%Ia