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new theme (kinda): retroTape
JdGordon:
I'm not sure I understand the last part of your message... the number in the %t() is the seconds between each frame/change, it isnt a multiple of the screen refresh rate. So so if the screen is refreshing every 0.04s that subline with %t(0.1) will only change every ~3rd screen refresh.
If you are asking for faster subline timeouts, I dont tinhk it will ever happen. If oyu really have a reason to want a timeout faster than 10FPS something is wrong. (no offense :) )
audio-i:
Reasoning is this: if the WPS is capable of refreshing the screen every 0.04 seconds (or 25 FPS), why not allow %t() to be set accordingly, since now it's limited to 0.1 seconds minimum, and then 0.1 seconds increments.
Now, 0.04 sounds pretty damn fast :) I just would like the FFW and REW effect to go faster on this theme (being already using the current minimum of 0.1 sec), but I feel I'm missing something here. The spinning effect speed it's not so different currently to that of the play speed (0.2 sec), but maybe that's related to something else (?)
soap:
Is there an expected CPU consumption hit in increasing the update speed?
JdGordon:
well yes and no.
I did a battery bench on my mini2g playing the same album in the menu (or file browser) and in the wps and there was no noticable difference (i tihnk a few minutes at most, out of 18h), But now I tihnk about it, i dont tinhk the peakmeter was on so the refresh was about the same.
Anyway, any cpu time drawing the skins is less time decompressing the audio. Also there is a minor technical reason to not allow finer than 0.1s timeouts.
audio-i:
I've been using for a while a new version of the retroTape theme that I'd like to upload. The WPS has a few minor changes (see below), but the menus have a rather big change (honestly, the idea came a while ago when I made an iPod Classic theme mock up, and thought the menus would be perfect for retroTape) I'm happy with it, basically I really enjoy the huge album art section shown in the menus :) But since of course if I upload the new version, the old one wouldn't be available anymore, I thought I'd better ask for some feedback first. In my opinion, most of the changes are positive, but there are also some things that would be gone.
WPS changes:
* Next track artist is only shown if different from the current one
* Playlist name is only shown if it's not the dynamic playlist
* It seems at some point the battery-left tag had a change and it uses the last image exclusively for 100% battery, so I made a little adjustment
SBS (menus) now has:
* Huge album art, that makes the menus still look like an inlay cassette card, and aims to let album art details be seen (and mostly, it's supposed to look nice ;D), since the WPS only shows a thumbnail sized image
* Date and time (they're small, but they're there
* More menus vertical space (lines)
* Absolute point touch areas for menu browsing: on the album art area, the top makes menu up, the center short press makes select, center long press makes cancel, and the bottom makes menu down; the left top inlay area makes "main menu".
SBS doesn't have anymore:
* Current track info
* Has less menus horizontal space
Additionally, this version seems to take a little longer to upload, and everything(*) seems to be a little bit less responsive, in my opinion not really that much, but I'd like to know other people's opinions. So here is the new version for a few days if someone wants to give it a whirl: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-baca2ab1.html
Another "minor" issue: if the theme is displaying the menus, the track changes, and the menus are not being browsed, the menus get slightly clipped when the new album art is displayed; that is because, in order to show the center of the album art, the AA viewport x coordinate starts at 120, and then 40 pixels (horizontally) of it get covered by the menus viewport; but when the track changes, it seems (?) the latter is not updated (until the menus are browsed again).
Finally, my intention was to display album art alternating three views over the same area (3 seconds each or something like that): first the left part, then the center part, and finally the right part. I tried the few options I could think of, but I couldn't achieve this, so if someone knows how to...
That's why I chose showing two thirds of a 240x240 album art, leaving one sixth out on the left, and the same on the right (image shown is 160x240). That works fine in my opinion, though.
(*) Edit: Actually, really only when going from the WPS to any menu, or back to the WPS
Edit 2: Also, I want to include an FM screen following JdGordon's suggestion:
--- Quote from: JdGordon on October 10, 2010, 02:49:23 AM ---Also any chance you could modify the wps for a fms also? just about all walkmans had a radio back in the day :)
--- End quote ---
What I have in mind is very simple though, like those "radio cassettes" that some cassette recorders used ( ::) did the wheels move when the "radio tape" was playing?)
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