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MHael:
Ok, I narrowed it down to all fonts 12px Bitstream except for the clock, next track title and the 'up the boom' while changing volume, which will all be system font. Also made a mixer icon for shuffling. If no one can see anymore problems, or has anymore suggestions, I'll start making it work.

   

karashata:
I have to admit this looks like a rather nice theme, very clean and to-the-point. I hope you don't have too much trouble making it work, and feel free to ask if you have any problems, I have plenty of experience making themes and would be glad to assist in any way I can.

MHael:
It's Done! Thanks for all your help. It's clean because I decided what needed to go in before I even started drawing and didn't add anymore after that. ;)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/29/194093/Deep_Blue.zip




The volume bar code is pretty ugly and it took me quite a while to get it working. It's even uglier than the prepod theme. So that I didn't go over the buffer I had to slice up the volume bar into 27 6x12 pieces (could've gone more but I didn't have many letters left and 6 goes neatly into 162), plus changing the last piece for a red one to indicate volume > 0dB makes 28. As the volume goes up, it displays piece a, then a and b, then a, b and c then a, b, c and d then... This works, but the line is 1600 characters long (I used a Perl script to generate it). Something similar to %pb would be great if I could find where to implement it and knew how.

Battery setup is a bit ugly too, to minimise buffer usage it's split into 10 images. To make it flash when power is low, the whole battery line is duplicated except for the one image. I also had to make a bit of a sacrifice on the next file info; it doesn't scroll, and so is left aligned to make room for numbers.

I think the biggest thing missing from the WPS code is a way to control order of operations, which for this too, I'd try and add if I could find how. I'll probably make this a full theme when I get a chance, so I won't upload it to the main themes page yet.

macgeek417:
I like this theme. I wanted a e200 version of it. So I created one!

Deep Blue e200 Hack v2
Hacked the backdrop so that the bottom line is repeated the rest of the way down. To fill in a little bit of the empty space, I copy-and-pasted the code from RockSansa to display "AAC - 126K" or "MP3 - 212K" or whatever. Hacked the WPS so that it moved the album art to the bottom, and always show the track info centered using the width of the screen.

MHael:
Glad you like it; here's a zip of the things I used to make it.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/29/194093/Deep%20blue%20creation%20files.zip

*PSD File
*Bitstream Vera Sans Font
*The custom shapes for PS
*And Fony and Rockbox font convertor

RFC alone made the font go funny for me, but using Fony to go to bdf and then bdf -> fnt program included with RFC gave a much neater result. I thought it'd be easier to just include them. Modify the theme to your heart's content.

Just so you know, the idea was to have a blue back light shine from the bottom of the screen, onto a black background. You might run into problems adding new things due to the size of the volume code, the wps is probably close to its limit on the number of tokens. Also, before you start adding things in, I suggest you write up/draw exactly what you want on the screen. You usually end up with a much better result that way. ;)

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