Winamp-based theme for iPod Video

[Tallain]

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I'm working on a winamp-based theme for the iPod Video. I noticed one for iPod color but not video, so I opened up Photoshop and started it. Everything in here except for the actual logo on the menu is from scratch, and the logo is an icon set from deviantART -- can be removed if necessary.

I can do the visuals all right -- but I'm a horrible coder! Would anyone be interested in helping out?

[BdN3504]

if there's no copyright issue at hand, i'll happy to help you. pm me.

[psycho_maniac]

looks nice but i would consider taking off "iPod Name"?

[MHael]

Looks pretty good, but I suggest you get rid of that  blurry black shadow layer around the progress bar. It'll make things a lot easier if it's not there, and in my opinion, will probably look better.

I also think if you put this up with other themes, you should change 'iPod Name' to say Rockbox by default, but use the .wps to put it there so others can change it if they want. I'm not quite sure if you've used different fonts or not but keep in mind you can only use the Rockbox system font (10px schumacher, I think) and a font of your own choosing say 15px Lucidia Console (but only one size as they're bitmap fonts).

Someone with better knowledge can tell you for certain, but I'm pretty sure you won't be able to make the status bar green like you have in your mockup. If I recall correctly it's hard coded into rockbox and is a mono bitmap so even if you change that, you'd probably have to write the code for it to handle colour. Also there's currently no shutdown option on the main menu, unless you use a custom build...

[BdN3504]

Someone with better knowledge can tell you for certain, but I'm pretty sure you won't be able to make the status bar green like you have in your mockup.

wrong. it uses the foreground colour you set in theme settings.
but the whole status bar drawing is being developed to accept viewports at the moment, so you'll soon be able to do whatever you want. see FS 10566.

[Tallain]

Hey guys,

BdN3504 was kind enough and awesome enough to take over the coding aspect of this, and now has the PSD files.

The 'iPod name' part was just a placeholder for whatever text usually goes at the top -- Rockbox by default I'm guessing -- so there's that. And I did use different fonts but I tried my best to keep the appearance as similar as possible to the actual Rockbox fonts, because I wasn't quite sure what they were.

Thanks for the feedback!

[jswetzen]

It looks great, I'm looking forward to seeing this finished!

[GooD Ol TarviS]

Only thing I have to say is (when I was working on a Winamp theme for iPod Color/iriver h300/Fuze) that the scrollbar (The square in the progress bar that moves along) won't be possible unless the user of the theme has a patch that gives support for it (scrollbar patch)

So be sure to adjust for this.

[MHael]

Actually I think it is possible. Probably using the %px conditional somewhat similar to the way I did the volume bar for my Nano theme (search Deep Blue) but it's very ugly.