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Small backdrop bitmap or two color progress bar?
TexasRockbox:
Hello,
Working on my WPS and am usng the newer bitmap strips. It seems to be working out and makes the WPS a bit less complicated. I have run into a issue while trying this "minimalist" approach.
Searched the forums, docs and wiki.
Ipod Video: 320x240. I have only one backdrop item that I need, and it takes only a small part of that screen -- the color background for the status/progress bar. Only 10 pixels high and 318 pixels long. Single color background bar.
Is it possible to create a background using that single image (10x318) and not have to use the whole 320x240? I tried to place a static image at the location "%x|fileame.bmp|x|y|" but the progress bar never displays so it would seem that the static image overrules the progress bar.
Alternatively, is is possible to have a two-tone progress bar that not only shows the progress but the remainder of bar in a different color? For example, create a bar "x" pixels long, the current position be white while the remaining (usused yet) be blue.
Thanks!
Llorean:
Why do you wish to avoid using a fullscreen backdrop? There's no reason not to, really.
And no, I don't think there's any practical way to do what you've described without making use of the backdrop.
TexasRockbox:
Thank you. My screens are mostly black. Except for the text and icons, menus are black. WPS backdrop is entirely black -- except for the bar that is used to provide the contrast between the elapsed status and the remaining status. That's it. If what was inquired about was possible, instead of a 225KB backdrop file one could use a 10KB "backdrop".
Llorean:
On a player with several gigabytes of disk space, an extra 215KB of file isn't going to make a huge difference.
TexasRockbox:
It, by itself, won't make much of a difference, of course. I just try to find ways to run as lean as desired. I delete all sorts of things I never use in Rockbox -- games, fonts, whatever. Just checking to see if there's something I missed or maybe something new-ish like the strip bitmaps.
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