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Tapeworm:
I've recently installed Rockbox 3.0 on one of my Sansa 260v1's and have downloaded several themes. Many were broken, but I've managed to 'fix' them and also make small changes in the WPS so that they are more to my liking, by pouring over the Create Custom WPS pages and gleaning information from this forum.

I've been successful doing this, but it's a PITA to constantly plug-in & un-plug my player to check coding change differences. Basically trial & error.

I've downloaded the Rockbox Simulator, as I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) that you can write and/or edit your .wps file and 'see' the changes on the fly before finally copying it to your player for a final 'road-test'.

However, I can't get the Simulator to work. Is there a tutorial or some intructions somewhere that I've missed. I've searched and can't seem to find any. Forgive me if I missed it somewhere. Just point me in the right direction and I'll figure it out.

Otherwise, can somebody give me a brief run-down on it's use, or any tips? I keep getting an error mesage in the DOS-type window:

"Can't open font: /.rockbox/fonts/12-Adobe-Helvetica.fnt"

I have extracted the same font.zip file to the directory on my hard drive containing the simulator and have verified that the font is question is in the fonts folder.

All I can get, depending on which file (.bat) I run is the Mouse location when I click on a spot in the simulated screen. But all I get is the font error msg. when I try to launch the rockboxui.exe file.

While the mouse location certainly helps, I have to think there's more to the Simulator than this?

I know it's probably something really simple I'm missing, so if somebody could help, I would appreciate it.

And if it is something really simple, please feel free to call me a bonehead.  :D

I'd like to be able to teach myself about this stuff by fixing and modding existing themes (for my own use only), so that I can eventually write my own WPS.

Thanks -

A humble & grateful Newbie :)

Chronon:
Can you give the full path to the font folder?  Saying that you extracted the font.zip to the directory containing the simulator makes me suspect that your fonts aren't really in the right place.

Once we've gotten  past this issue you can run rockboxui.exe --debugwps to make the simulator direct WPS errors to the console.

Tapeworm:
Thanks for the quick reply . . .

The full path is:

C:\Program Files\Rockbox Simulator\sandisk-e200-sim-w32\.rockbox\fonts

Do I have to run the '--debugwps' to use this, or maybe I'm mis-understanding the function/operation of the Simulator.

And does this have to be run from a command line, of can I simply click on it in Windows Explorer to launch it?

karashata:
You'll need to run it from the command line, unless there's a batch file that passes the --debugwps option to rockboxui.exe. Then again, if you're having that sort of issue with it not finding the font, you may want to run it from the command line anyway because it doesn't sound like the .exe is seeing the directory structure correctly and running it from the command line might help that.

Chronon:
Extract the font archive to  "C:\Program Files\Rockbox Simulator\sandisk-e200-sim-w32\simdisk\" instead.  The "simdisk" directory is treated as the root of the player by the simulator.  The simulator isn't finding the fonts at: "C:\Program Files\Rockbox Simulator\sandisk-e200-sim-w32\simdisk\.rockbox\fonts\" so it's complaining.

And you certainly don't have to include the --debugwps switch.  You can use the simulator for other things than WPS work.

*edited to include the new path.  Thanks, karashata.

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