Windows Media Player WPS for Sansa C200

[creativesansa333]

I am trying to posibbly create a new windows media player wps for the c200 and would like some help on either porting one from another player or creating my own icons and backdrops from scratch instead of building off another wps like I usually do. Thanks.

[BdN3504]

So, how can we help you?

[creativesansa333]

Some information on how to do the stuff I mentioned (porting a windows media player theme or making my own icons and backdrops) might be useful if you have any. I do have photoshop so maybe some information on how to do that in there also might be good.

[BdN3504]

just download my blackglass remixes and have a look at the psd files provided. You could just resize the icons to your needs using the free transform tool. I figured the designing stuff out by searching photoshop tutorials, here are some, that have been useful to me:

Illustrator
menu
Bar
This one's pretty detailed.

[creativesansa333]

Thanks, I'll try that.

[Llorean]

These forums are not the right place for asking for help with or general discussion on how to use image editors.

If you have specific questions about the Rockbox aspect of WPS design, that's fine, otherwise please ask somewhere more appropriate such as a forum for the tool you're trying to use.

[creativesansa333]

I am trying to learn how to design a custom windows media player themed WPS and I was asking about maybe how to design it. I really wasn't trying to learn how to use photoshop. Sorry.

[Llorean]

Well, try asking specific questions. What part of WPS creation are you stuck at? Which parts of the documentation are giving you problems?

[creativesansa333]

I am not exactly stuck I just need advice on creating or porting a windows media player wps to the c200.

[Llorean]

That's incredibly vague. Please, try to state what you actually want to know.

[creativesansa333]

Okay, I'll try to be specific as possible. Firstly: How can I port an orinal Windows Media Player based WPS from another player so that it works with the c200? Second: If that fails how can I create my own from scratch instead of basing it off another c200 WPS?

[yapper]

Thinking positive, I'll offer suggestions regarding your first objective:

Find a WPS you like that exists for another player.
Look at the screen size for that player, and work out how much smaller the images need to be for the c200 (most other DAPs have a larger screen).
Amend the WPS to use the new image dimensions.
Resize the images.
Test it.

[creativesansa333]

Okay, I resized a Blackglass WPS background for the iPod Video and modified the cabbie v2 a bit to get the first one. I also made one with windows media player icons but they're very small and hard to see. It is the second one.
Tell me what you think for both so that I know which one to upload to the gallery.

[epithetless]

I think they both look very nice. Given the shortage of c200 themes in general, why not upload both flavors?

Question, though: Are there more icons (which the current screendumps don't show) which fill the blank space on the bottom left? If not, I'd recommend spacing the icons out to fill the bottom evenly. Or -- and this would probably be my personal choice alone -- you could place a numerical volume indicator in that bottom left corner. I think expanding the gray line in the background to be the same thickness as the progress bar would look nice, as well.

[motionman95]

Also, as a suggestion, what about having it so that the album art show every 3 secs, and then switches back to song info? Is that possible?