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.

[Llorean]

There's no practical reason to delete any of those unless you're out of disk space. They don't use up additional RAM, and neither will using a bigger image since the RAM is preallocated (to be sure, for example, that you won't have to stop and re-start playback when changing WPSes).

[TexasRockbox]

That's one of the great things about Rockbox -- delete things you don't need or want and functionality that is still desired still remains.