320x240 - Working on CenterArt v2.0, need design advice

[Yotto]

you can also scroll those lines, but it looks pretty shit if you do :p (add %s to the text)

Yeah I tried that once.

...once

[kage]

those lines have been missing since I downloaded the theme, I have done nothing to it.
I actually did not notice them until you mentioned it haha

[Yotto]

It appears that there are two versions of the font I use. I double-checked the current official fonts package and the correct one (the one that shows up correctly in my WPS) is in it.

If you don't care, of course, feel free to leave it but that would drive me bonkers

I'm having a bit of a time getting the wider upcoming tracks list working but hope to have something soon. I like the look of it.

[kage]

the other thing that I just noticed about this theme, is that for some reason it runs REALLY slow on my Ipod 30 gig

I think it might have to do with all those qued up tracks...

It takes about 3 seconds to change the information after the song switches, and when you wake the player up from the "sleep" mode, the progress bar sometimes freezes... (the data switches instantaneously if you manually change the track)

[Yotto]

the other thing that I just noticed about this theme, is that for some reason it runs REALLY slow on my Ipod 30 gig

Weird. I don't have that problem. When it goes to the next track everything instantly appears.

I think it might have to do with all those qued up tracks...

I am no coder, but it can't have to do with the tracks being queued. They're queued anyway. It could do with the displaying of them. maybe that eats up processor/memory.

It takes about 3 seconds to change the information after the song switches, and when you wake the player up from the "sleep" mode, the progress bar sometimes freezes... (the data switches instantaneously if you manually change the track)

I've never seen any of this. I'd be curious though, if you comment out the playlist does it speed up?

[kage]

I dont know what "commenting out" a playlist means...
and thats what I meant, displaying them may be what makes it go slow...

one of these days, when I am not insanely busy, I will take a video and show you what I am talking about.

[[Saint]]

From what I understand of Viewports you can only have two fonts at a time on the screen, and one of those fonts is the tiny default font.

Multifont is now in SVN, this fixes that issue for you.

%Fl|'identifier'|'fontname.fnt'| is the syntax for this*
*(must come before any viewport that uses an additional font)

'identifier' = a number between 2 and 9 (Including 2 and 9...I think it's 9 anyway)
'fontname.fnt' = the fonts filename as it appears in your ./rockbox/fonts/ directory.

After the %Fl line is parsed, any following viewport can use its identifier to display the loaded font.

More info on Multifont is here.


[St.]

[Yotto]

I dont know what "commenting out" a playlist means...

Aha. Sorry. I think I intended on detailing this when I said that. Plus, I don't know what use it would be for anybody to know the information, considering it's only happening to you.

If you're curious, here's how to do it. On your rockbox is a file:
/.rockbox/wps/CenterArt.wps

Open that with any editor, like notepad. Go down to the very bottom line, that should read:
%Vp|1|+%ia-%it| %fn|

And add a "#" to it, to make it look like this:
#%Vp|1|+%ia-%it| %fn|

After you save that and reload Rockbox on your player, the playlist will no longer show up in the middle box. Instead, it'll just be a blank box.

[kage]

okay, thanks!
Ill go try that

[Analbirth]

its a bit off-topic, but for me the only way to contact you.
could you please convert CenterArt to 3.6? there is a problem in the menu view.

[Yotto]

I noticed that last night while using CenterArt to see tags I'm putting in a new theme.

I have reuploaded the theme to the oldsite. Download away!

[Analbirth]

sorry, but i use centerart v1^^

[Yotto]

Ooooh. I haven't even looked at CenterArt v1 in a loooong time. I'll check it out when I can but it may be a few days. I am actually surprised that it has this problem (or that whatever problems it has cause them to not load at all) as I'm pretty sure it's from before the custom menu screens.

If you want to delve into it yourself, the problem likely lies in the /.rockbox/themes/CenterArt.cfg file. Look for some code that defines the menu dimensions and if it's there, see if the numbers are right. If it's not there, you likely have to put it there with dimensions of 0, 0, 320, 240 (as it was intended on being full screen)

[Analbirth]

i cant fix it. so pls do it for me.

best regards

[Yotto]

I've fixed the menus in the original CenterArt, and have uploaded the updated theme to the Oldsite themes site here.