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PictureFlow Improvement

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Vague Rant:
Thanks for the PM, csavery, a hectic week has left me unable to follow development as closely as I would have liked.

Sorry I haven't been by sooner to test your changes, it looks like you've done some stellar work here. Just about to compile right now and will let you know how it goes on hardware as soon as it's done (compiling from scratch on a slow netbook).

EDIT: Or not, looks like Flyspray is still nonworking.

EDIT2: Well as long as we're waiting, I'm messing with that ugly PF hack I did, and while I really don't want to be the guy going "Hey csavery, add this, now add this" (you're just so good at it) one minor niggle with the Clip+ is the tracklist, which uses gradients of brightness on titles further from the selected one; it ends up looking just kind of weird on the Clip+, though you can't tell in the simulator because it actually simulates a greyscale rather than monochrome screen. To approximate multiple colours, Rockbox flickers pixels at different rates in order to foster the illusion, but this looks awkward when applied to text; if you or anyone else had any interest it'd be nice to see a check for mono screens here and switching out of the multicolour tracklist for a monochrome one closer to the style of Rockbox's own menus (plain, as it were). Obviously, as always, this is just a none so subtle "This would be nice"; it's kind of a limited interest feature, especially considering I'm not aware of anyone who's interested in working on PictureFlow and uses a monochrome device, so this making it into anybody's workload is not a major concern.

csavery:
I've made a patch changing the track list to non-gradient.
Just waiting for FlySpray to be up and I can post it for testing.
It works ok for me in Sim.

Vague Rant:
That's fantastic, you've really improved the PictureFlow experience for us small-screen mono weirdos; so much appreciated. Looking forward to the return of Flyspray.

EDIT: Huzzah, site's back; finally got a chance to apply your two patches for the title display bug and the reflection setting (couldn't apply both but did the title bug patch "manually" as it was only one line); tested them on hardware and in sim and they behave perfectly and identically in each. PictureFlow is really looking professional now even on extremely limited screens like the Clip's; just great.

csavery:
Just posted this mono track list as FS#11310.

yelped:
Awesome! You're really doing great work!

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