Trying to program playback progress bar to WPS

[ribbie]

I have a Toshiba Gigabeat F40 that I am trying to program a custom WPS for.  I have succeeded in programming all the text entries, but when I attempt to follow the instructions to program a simple playback progress bar into the display, I either get a blank line or the WPS reverts back to a much simpler WPS with almost none of the information I wish to display.  Could someone please give me the correct code for this feature or let me know what I have done wrong.   (The centering code also did not work for me, hence the spacing in the wps file.)  BlackEscape is the WPS I am trying to customize.

Here are the contents of my wps file:

        Volume %pv dB 
         %fb kbs %fc
   bat. %bl %         %bt

%s%ac%?ia<%ia|Artist Unknown>
%s%ac%?id<%id|Album Unknown>
%s%ac%?it<%it|Title Unknown>
     track-%in     year-%iy
            %ig

next:%s%ac%?Ia<%Ia|Artist Unknown>
%s%ac%?It<%It|Title Unknown>

             %pc/%pr

%lh
 

[karashata]

The progress bar tag is %pb|bitmap.bmp|x-pos|y-pos|width|height|, substituting those text labels for the appropriate information.  Also, the centering tag is %ac (which will center to the viewport, not the screen, so if the viewport's only half the screen, it will center to that half...)

Hope that helps you out!

[MarcGuay]

or the WPS reverts back to a much simpler WPS with almost none of the information I wish to display

This is what happens when your WPS code is not written properly - it reverts to the default display.  It's a common point of misunderstanding and I'm thinking of a place to add it to the documentation.  If you can suggest a place to put it, please let me know.

[yapper]

I'm not sure if it is feasible, but an error message displayed by the WPS parser might make it more apparent to users when a WPS issue has caused the default display to be used instead of the user's chosen WPS.

[karashata]

I assume you're talking about on target, because I know for a fact the sim dumps error messages to the terminal window whenever it reverts to the built-in default, telling you what's wrong with the WPS...

[yapper]

Yes, I did mean on target, as it would assist those who downloaded 'bad' WPS and were confused by what they saw. Obviously they really should read the manual, but we all know how that goes