Iphone theme dillemma

[Ghost Toast]

Hi all,

First thing is, I'm new, so I may have put this in the wrong place.  But, I'm a member of the SanDisk forums site.  Okay, now to the problem.  I installed rockbox on my e270, and when I downloaded the Iphone theme from the themes site and extracted it to the root of my player, it only had the background pictures, the menu words weren't in the right place, and the now playing screen did not have the cover flow on the Iphone cover flow theme.  I've been trying to get this right for days now, and I was wondering if you guys here could help me with it.

And just to remind you again, I'm new to this rockbox forums and rockbox.

Sansa Maniac

[bascule]

1. Did you install the Font pack from the Extras page? That might sort the text being misplaced.

2. Does that theme need a custom build? It should say in the description.

[pondlife]

That theme claims it requires a custom build, so we can't support it here. 

You may want to contact the theme author for support, or it may be possible to update it to work with the standard build (using a single font would be the main change, I think).

pondlife

[Ghost Toast]

Okay, I'll try that.  But, I don't know how to do programing, and I don't know how to create my own theme.  You think you guys could help me with the programing, theme making, and the custom build thing?   Also, when I click on the "my build" button in the description of the theme, it says this site is either taken off or is not available for me.  What can I do?

[Chronon]

It probably means that that build is no longer maintained. 

You can find some good documentation in the wiki on making your own custom WPS.  Check out the SimpleGuideToWPSMaking and CustomWPS pages in the wiki.

[Ghost Toast]

Ok got it.  new problems though.  So, I installed the most recent current build of Rockbox and I downloaded a couple of themes online that said they would work with any recent daily build.  Once again...  not a single one worked like it was supposed to.  I installed the fonts package, so now I'm completely stuck on what to do.  I tried re-installing the themes, but it still didn't work.  So if you guys could help me with that one... it would be great.  If you need anymore information just let me know.  I have one more question, this might be a little off topic, but,  I heard that there was a picture flow plugin, and the directions didn't make sense to me.  Finally, the last question,  I finally got the basic idea on how to create my own WPS,  I just don't know how to create the buttons, and how to make it all one theme, making it so when I'm on the menu, it has one backdrop, and on the WPS screen, it has another. 

Any help is appreciated.  Sorry if I made it a little long.

Sansa Crazy

[Chronon]

Some themes are broken due to stricter enforcement of the syntax.  arboxWidgets works well for me. 

You should ask about the picture flow plugin in the proper forum.

The WPS code is basically a simple markup language that allows you to place text and images on the screen.  Just decide what images you want it to contain and under what conditions you want them to be displayed.  The backdrop for the theme is defined in the .cfg file for the theme.  The WPS background is stored with the other WPS images and gets displayed by the %X tag. 

[karashata]

It's possible that even some of those themes that say they work with the recent builds are still out-of-date enough that they won't work with the newest builds.  This, I believe, is why it's been insisted that people put the date on the page when they post/update a theme, but even if it's not, it certainly gives an idea when "recent" was when the theme was posted.

[mschneider]

I wrote the Iphone theme, and the reason it's not working is because (for the cover flow half) You need to either update or remove the %m (scrolling margin tags), remove them and it works fine. The other half uses some patches that are no longer in existence. I'll try to fix this to use viewports.
Most of the time if a theme is not working the tags that are out of whack are either album art (%C), or scrolling margins (%m), or there was some syntactical    error (like a "|" left out at the end of an image coordinate declaration. It just takes some time to look through the wps file to find the error.

[Ghost Toast]

So what ur saying is I should delete all the %m tags I can find in the WPS file and it should work like it's supposed to?

Update:  Hey....  Guess what?  It still doesn't work.  I removed all of the %m tags before I extracted the file into the root of my e200.  It's exactly the same as it used to be.  it uses the default wps file (peakmeter, artist, album, track, this can be annoying because I don't like the peakmeter)  for the while playing screen, and the menu is regular, it just has the background image... that's it. Also, your e200 theme acts the same way.  Is there any more information I missed??

Also,  do u think it would work if I completely removed rockbox and manually installed the older version?

[mschneider]

Are you sure you put the files in the right place? The %m tags were removed from the cover flow wps right? I looked at the e200 wps file and (like I said to look for earlier) all of the "|"'s are missing on the ends of coordinate declarations. Just add one to the end of each and it should work. I'll look at the iphone theme in a little while, but it's working on mine with the current build and the modifications to the wps I told you to make.

[Ghost Toast]

ur supposed to put it in the wps folder in the .rockbox folder, right?  That's where I put it.  And,  I removed all of the %m tags from the cover flow wps.  Also,  what are coordinate declarations?  once you reply, I'll remove all of the "|" things from wherever the cooridnate declaration is. 

Update:  I tried it all for the Iphone theme and then I   downloaded the most recent current build.  And... it's still the same as it was before.

[AlexP]

ur supposed to put it in the wps folder in the .rockbox folder, right?  That's where I put it.

Yes, in principle.  You can check were the included themes put their files.

A friendly reminder - please use proper words, and not things like "ur".

[mschneider]

Sansa theme:

add a " | " to the end of the lines that look like:

Code: [Select]

%xl|a|image.bmp|x|y

so that they look like:

Code: [Select]

%xl|a|image.bmp|x|y|

  .



Could you upload a txt file of the iphone wps for me and I'll take a look at it?

[Ghost Toast]

ok heres the iphone theme with the %m tags deleted(downloaded from the internet):

Update:  I got the e200 theme to work.  Thanks for the help.  Again, here's the wps file to the iphone cover flow theme:

%X|WPSII.bmp|0|0|
%P|pb.bmp|
%xl|a|pause.bmp|1|196|
%xl|e|play.bmp|1|196|
%xl|j|bat0.bmp|155|2|
%xl|k|bat1.bmp|155|2|
%xl|l|bat2.bmp|155|2|
%xl|m|bat3.bmp|155|2|
%xl|n|bat4.bmp|155|2|
%xl|o|bat5.bmp|155|2|
%xl|p|bat6.bmp|155|2|
%xl|q|vol0.bmp|1|1|
%xl|r|vol1.bmp|1|1|
%xl|s|vol2.bmp|1|1|
%xl|t|vol3.bmp|1|1|
%xl|u|vol4.bmp|1|1|
%xl|v|vol5.bmp|1|1|
%xl|w|shuff_off.bmp|30|1|
%xl|x|shuff_on.bmp|30|1|
%xl|y|rep_on.bmp|17|1|
%xl|z|rep_off.bmp|17|1|
%wd
%ac%cl:%cM %cP

  %pc                                        -%pr
%ac%pp of %pe














%s|25|151|%ac%?ia<%ia|Artist Unknown>
%s|25|151|%ac%?it<%it|Title Unknown>
%s|25|151|%ac%?id<%id|Album Unknown>










%Cl|26|45|s125|s125|
%C
%?mm<%xdz|%xdy|%xdy|%xdy|%xdy>
%?mp<|%xde|%xda||>
%?ps<%xdx|%xdw>
%?pv<%xdv|%xdu|%xdt|%xds|%xdr|%xdr|%xdq>
%?bl<-1|%xdp|%xdo|%xdn|%xdm|%xdl|%xdk|%xdj>
%pb|30|30|146|22|