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Beginner issues: Album Art won't show on rudimentary wps

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johnnyhaggis:
Hi - based on the wikis on making your own wps and the album art wiki, I tried making a very basic wps.

The basic idea was to stick with the default format with very minor modifications

%s%?it
%s%?ia
%s%?id %?iy

%pc/%pt
[%pp:%pe]

%pb

and then get some album art on the left side of the screen, under the time data but over the progress bar.

I tried a bunch of things, but the album art never showed.  Just to test I made a blank wps with just a %c tag on it, and one with a %cl tag on it, and nothing showed.  I'm using album art called "cover.bmp" in the same folder as the tracks being played, and the art does show when I use previously made themes from the rockbox themes section, so I don't imageine it's a problem with the art.

Anyone have any ideas what the issue might be?  

AlexP:
What format is your album art in, and what are the filenames?

johnnyhaggis:
Hi - they're just "cover.bmp" and they're in the same directory as the files I'm playing.  They work fine with other wps themes that have album art.  

Also a few questions:

1. What's the difference between %c and %cL? (I capitaliszed the "l" so you can differentiate it from a one or a vertical line)

2. When you're determining the position of the album art how do the x and y numbers work exactly?  is 0,0 in the center of the screen (meaning you'd have negative numbers to go down or left), or is it the 0,0 point at the bottom left?

AlexP:
%Cl defines where the album art appears

The x position defined the left hand edge, and the y position defines the top edge.  Therefore the position x|y is the top left corner.

Once you have defined this, then %C shows the album art.

What dimensions are your cover.bmp?

johnnyhaggis:
The one I'm using to test is 130 x 130 pixels.

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