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Theme background question

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blueskip:
I'll eat that hat.  ;D  I just got lucky.  (making it work)

I've been playing with this theme based on this approach since my last post.  I made numerous changes such as moving the progress bar to the bottom.  I cropped the bottom panel slightly to make the progress bar look like it belongs there.  etc..

Now I just need a font that is about a 17 or 18 and I'll be done.  I can't figure out how to rezize fonts though.  That's a little tougher than I thought.

Yotto:
Ah, someone beat me to it. However, I found something a bit more practical:

http://www.foundationtv.co.uk/f-tips/illeatmyhat.html

melancholydm:
wow then this is great news... further customization that everybody else didnt think possible.... does this mean you simply just placed the icons by using code or did you put pink everywhere?

blueskip:
When I first was experimenting I was using photoshop.  Bitmaps using pink with photoshop will NOT work.  I switched to MS paint and haven't had any problems using transparencies since.

HOWEVER, that is not how I did it (using pink I mean).  I used %x|a|filename|distance from left|distance from top| as the first line

The I called the image for display using %xda

This placed the background for my button icons.  

All of this may work using the pink in paintshop.  (255-0255) I don't know.  I haven't tried that.  But I have been experimenting with this color making changes to the overall theme.  It seems to work one everything else and I would think it would probably work just as well as what I did on any other background.  But I don't know without trying.  What I do know is that the less that is loaded the better off you are so loading a 320x240 image covered in pink will bog the overall performance if you are intending to look at the default background when it's not shown.

I'm working on a complete make over to this theme.  I like the media player look, but I want some changes to clear up more screen space.

Update:  Theme posted.  Listed as Clearview at the bottom. Uses Nimbus 14 font by default.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpod5g

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