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new theme (kinda): retroTape
audio-i:
I made the tape round, the result is very nice. For now and while I finish some other stuff it can be pre downloaded here (ipod video):
vash:
Absolutely amazing theme! The greatest one I've ever seen!
Just a couple of improvement questions:
Could indicators of Bat and Volume be done in bold, in order to see them just in a half-look?
Could counter be moved to some other place and replaced with a watch?
Could white background be replaced with yellow or metallic color, just to be a single whole with a theme?
Tnx a lot! Keep on going!
ps Unfortunately, link with v2.0beta2 is dead 8[
Yotto:
By "watch" do you mean a clock? I miss a clock on this as well and have been wondering where to put it. I don't care about the little meter in the lower right so I've been wondering what it would look like there.
The white background for the menus is to simulate/suggest the old inserts for blank cassettes. I would personally not dream of changing it :)
I agree, this is the nicest theme available for the iPod. :)
kostkoro:
Hello, I'm a new member here and I have an Iriver H320 (converted to H332 with a compact flash card). I recently tested your theme with the simulator (Rockbox 3.5.1) and I find it wonderful! Congratulations!
I only have a humble request: I wish there was genre information in the .wps. I miss it. I don't think that the words e.g. "2/18 in dynamic playlist" are totally necessary, I believe only numeric value (2/18) is really needed. So one could save space to include genre information in place of the above sentence.
I know, you could ask "why don't you do it?" The simple truth is I don't know much about "coding" and compiling a wps.
Thanks and many wishes :)
audio-i:
Thanks for your comments.
Some of the suggestions made are fairly simple to do, it may look complicated at first but it really isn't, plus starting to personalize an existing theme is the first step to making one's own themes (and a good step!). I would suggest checking http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CustomWPS
--- Quote from: vash on April 25, 2010, 07:25:18 AM ---Could indicators of Bat and Volume be done in bold, in order to see them just in a half-look?
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Do you mean the numerical power and volume? I wanted them to stand out as little as possible honestly, but I recently found that the 09-Nedore.fnt is sort of like the system font in bold and that might work, I will give it a second look for the next theme update (when Rockbox 3.6 is released)
--- Quote from: vash on April 25, 2010, 07:25:18 AM ---Could counter be moved to some other place and replaced with a watch?
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Like Yotto, I'm not specially a fan of the peakmeter, except in this theme: I really like it. Plus tape decks used to have one :) However I also agree with him that probably the best place to put time display would be there. It would probably be also better to use a bigger font for that.
This is a quick change to put time display there using the current font (check http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CustomWPS#Real_Time_Clock)
In the WPS file, replace
--- Code: ---# Peak Meter
%V|261|184|51|17|1|6699b9|72abce|
%pm
--- End code ---
with
--- Code: ---# Peak Meter replaced with time
%V|257|184|56|12|1|6699b9|72abce|
%ac%cl:%cM%cp
--- End code ---
--- Quote from: kostkoro on April 25, 2010, 12:16:44 PM ---I wish there was genre information in the .wps. I miss it. I don't think that the words e.g. "2/18 in dynamic playlist" are totally necessary, I believe only numeric value (2/18) is really needed. So one could save space to include genre information in place of the above sentence.
I know, you could ask "why don't you do it?" The simple truth is I don't know much about "coding" and compiling a wps.
--- End quote ---
It is important for me to know the playlist I'm playing :)
If you want to change it though, in the .wps file, replace:
--- Code: ---%V|24|96|214|12|1|282200|554900|
%ac%s%pp/%pe%?pn< in "%pn"| in dynamic playlist>
--- End code ---
with something like (see http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CustomWPS#ID3_Tag_Info)
--- Code: ---%V|24|96|214|12|1|282200|554900|
%ac%s%pp/%pe - Genre: %ig
--- End code ---
I didn't try the changes, probably they would have to be slightly adjusted.
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