Cabbie 3.0 (and some other WPS) broken on iPod Video on recent Rockbox build

[jamoiholland]

Evening all,

So I updated the build on my 5G iPod (as I do every 3 or 4 weeks normally without any problems) from 2008-02-23 to 2008-04-01, and now Cabbie 3.0 seems a bit broken. The menus are ok, but the icons along the bottom in the Now Playing screen were misaligned. I went to today's build, 2008-04-03, and the Now Playing screen has now reverted to just plain text, top half of screen, no colour or icons etc. Most of the other themes (except Cabbie 2.0, the new default?) seem to be broken in the same way. Is this a known about issue? I'll go back to 2008-02-23 for the time being.

Edit:
From my limited testing, here I have found...
    Cabbie 2.0, BlurPod, Dockpod Aqua, xbox, Stele, phk1, slant = ok
    Cabbie 3.0, uniCatcher, ipodVision_5g art, iCatcher = broken
... so I guess its only a couple of WPS that are broken? Shame, I really like Cabbie 3.0!

Jamoi

[pixelma]

Recently the WPS parser got stricter again which means that small mistakes in the WPS code which were previously "overlooked" now lead to the While Playing Screen being rejected and you will see the built-in text based one. These changes are especially related to bitmap handling (syntax errors in the definition like a missing closing | and check for the existence of the bitmap files).

Meaning - you would either need to go through the .wps file for syntax errors and/or check if all referenced files exist.

[...] uniCatcher [..] iCatcher = broken

Is it possible that you are not using UniCatcher or iCatcher that come with Rockbox? There were some changes to the included ones but they were all tested in a simulator and I just asked someone in IRC to test and he said they were fine...

[ZincAlloy]

too bad... no idea where the error is to be found...

[linuxstb]

checkwps is your friend (to be found in the tools/checkwps/ directory in SVN).

Running it on cabbie v3 shows that the .wps file refers to a bitmap called "lockclosed.bmp",. but that bmp file doesn't exist.

[ZincAlloy]

cool...

just a badly named icon... I'll put up a fixed version in a minute

edit: done.

[jamoiholland]

[...] uniCatcher [..] iCatcher = broken

Is it possible that you are not using UniCatcher or iCatcher that come with Rockbox? There were some changes to the included ones but they were all tested in a simulator and I just asked someone in IRC to test and he said they were fine...

Yes, they would be versions I downloaded from here a couple of months ago. Although if there were included versions of these WPS in the normal build, wouldn't they overwrite my old versions when I copy in the new build?

cool...
just a badly named icon... I'll put up a fixed version in a minute
edit: done.

Where would that new version be mate? I just re-downloaded from http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpod5g#Cabbie_3_0 but that still has the problems. Thanks in advance!

[ZincAlloy]

the file is named correctly now. no idea if anything else is broken.. I don't have an ipod to test it.
Are the simulator builds up to date?

[jamoiholland]

No idea, I've never used the simulator before to be honest mate. All I know is I've just downloaded the Cabbie3.0 WPS again in case anything has changed, along with today's build, and it still breaks, going to the built-in plain text WPS.

[crzyboyster]

Maybe you should try clearing your cache or try downloading from this link:

> http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/Main/WpsIpod5g?rev=2;filename=cabbie3ipod.zip

Sometimes, your web browser may save the same file (happens to me all the time) based on your settings. This may help...

[jamoiholland]

Maybe you should try clearing your cache or try downloading from this link:

> http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/Main/WpsIpod5g?rev=2;filename=cabbie3ipod.zip

Sometimes, your web browser may save the same file (happens to me all the time) based on your settings. This may help...

Cheers crzyboyster, but not different I'm afraid