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AF_Flow: 1st Theme with a basic PictureFlow integration (320x240)

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JdGordon:
not likely :) maybe later

AsusFreak:
So for now I'm happy with this Jump-To Feature. I think it's a step forward...

In the iaudio forum I was asked about the way the jump-to feature works.

So here some more details:

csavery and jdgordon - all credits to them - built a patch for having a workaround to integrate the pictureflow plugin in the WPS. Additionally they defined a new toucharea tag called hotkey to provide the feature to the touchscreen devices. Both features are in the SVN now, so you have to use a current built.

The toucharea tag hotkey can be configured in the main rockbox settings as I described it in Step 1 of post #1. If you set the hotkey to PictureFlow you are able to jump from the WPS to the pictureflow plugin by tapping on the hotkey toucharea (which is the middle album art in my theme).

Now you have to be able to get back again.
In the PictureFlow settings you find a parameter called WPS Integration. If this is set to Via tracklist you are able to slide through your albums, select one and get to the regarding tracklist. Selecting one title closes the pictureflow plugin and brings you back to the WPS. This configuration is done in Step 2.2 of post #1.
If the manual configuration is a way too complicated then try my config files in the attachment. They should overwrite the main rockbox config file and the pictureflow config file.

One thing will lead to confusions, I guess:
in the WPS you are able to use both 3x3 grid mode and absolute point mode. The pictureflow plugin currently only supports 3x3 grid mode.

So if you use absolute point mode (which I do) then you tap the middle album art in the WPS and jump to the plugin and have to switch in mind to 3x3. When jumping back to WPS you will have the absolute point mode back again.
If you are already in 3x3 grid mode in the WPS then you have to tap at the folder icons at the lower right corner of the WPS and jump into the pictureflow plugin.

If you aren't familiar with the usage of the 3x3 grid mode in the pictureflow plugin here are the 9 fields of the pictureflow screen:

menu.........step up......Jump To WPS
step left.....select........step right
O............step down.......cancel

I know it's a way more complicate than only loading a theme but I think this is a good step forward on our way to a perfect rockbox, isn't it?

Please give it a try and give more feedback.
Thank you all.

AsusFreak:
VERSION V2.0 IS UP !!!
There were some modifications with the touchscreen areas done by the rockbox crew and some of them bring us new features for the themes.

1. Bugfixing
The absolute point mode is working perfectly again. So no need to use 3x3 grid mode instead. And the hotkey area (which is in my WPS the actual album art in the middle) works now again.

2. New touchscreen area actions and screen related buttons
It's now possible to define buttons related to the actual screen. And we got a few new actions for the touchscreen areas.
So if you take my theme you'll see different buttons on the different screens:
On WPS you have VolumeDown, VolumeUp, RWD, Play, FWD and Settings.
On Menu Screen you have Quickscreen, LineUp, Select, LineDown and Cancel.
On FM Screen you got VolumeDown, VolumeUp, Scan backwards, Scan forwards and Cancel.
I think this is a great improvement to the absolute point mode. I guess now it's the time for some more users to switch from 3x3 grid mode to absolute point mode, isn't it?

3. Faked albums on While Playing Screen
I was asked to change the faked albums on the WPS to some classical ones. I decided to change but I decided to use Faith No More's Angel Dust and Chris Rea's Road To Hell And Back because they fit with the colours of AF_Flow.
I changed my background and reduced it to a screenshot of pictureflow plus two grey lines for the bars. So it will get much more easier to change the background if there will be the need to change it again.

Give it a try and please give some feedback.

mp3:
Excellent!!!

[Saint]:
I jumped the gun a little and rushed to the themesite to download this so I could work out how on earth you'd managed to get plugin integration working when one of the devs here came to a roadblock himself some time ago trying the same thing, on a hunch, I went back and re-read the whole thread and realised the side images were static...

I would hate to work out the likelyhood of another user having those two albums in their library...
And because of the shape of them there's no easy way for an end user to easily insert their own images into the theme either...even if they weren't actually part of the backdrop.

I've tried and tried to think of ways this could work better for you, but the best I can come up with is making the images on the side conditional to something (perhaps playmode?) so that they at least *seem* to change dynamically, but to me even that idea is a little sucky, though perhaps something you hadn't thought of?

It *looks* cool, hopefully one day the real thing will be possible.


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