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Darin:
Hi everyone. This is my first time trying a theme for Rockbox. I think I'm about finished with it - I'm hoping - but it would be a lot of help if others could help me try it out before I post it on the Rockbox Themes site.

I need to make sure it's compressed and configured correctly, and that the lines perform correctly. I've never done this before, so it may have a lot of problems.

Anyway, if anyone could help me out, that would be great. Let me know about any problems, but also any ideas/critiques, or just anything. Thanks very much to anyone who can help.

Screenshot:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/185397/SansaTheme2.png

Download:
http://newhoa.deviantart.com/art/Flow-Sansa-Fuze-Rockbox-Theme-173678587

Thanks again.

- Darin

Progweed:
Hi Darin,

the WPS of your theme doesn't show up, which might be due to a recent syntax change outlined here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=25378.0

(But that's just an educated guess, I didn't have a look at the code.)

The theme checker will complain about the font, because it is already part of the font-pack and mustn't be included in the zip.
 
Btw, why don't you use Rockbox Simulator for testing? Makes it really easy to develop and debug a theme.  :)

The theme itself looks nice and well-arranged, just how I like it. Perhaps you could antialias the glowing ribbons a bit more, but that's just nitpicking on my behalf.

Darin:
Wow! I had no idea that existed! That's really helpful... that would've saved me a ton of time. Thanks!

I started this theme when I was without the internet, so I wouldn't have been able to download it had I known about it. But to be honest, as a newcomer to this thing, I'm not sure I would have found even if my internet was working... the Rockbox site is very difficult to navigate - as is Rockbox itself. I hope no one takes that as an insult... I think it's amazing, and am incredibly grateful for it.

Anyway, I played around with it, and think I have it working. Do I need to include the font folder, just without the font, or no font folder at all? Are the tango icons also default? Should I not include them? Also, if I upload it, does it need to be able to work under 3.6, or whatever the Simulator is using? The one I linked originally works well on 3.6 (current build?), but not at all under the simulator. The one that works under the simulator doesn't work on my player with 3.6.

Fixed... I think?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/185397/Flow201008061.zip

Sorry for all the questions! Thanks very much for your response and help/advice. I really appreciate it.

- Darin

Progweed:
No problem at all, I'm myself quite new to Rockbox.  ;)

Your theme works almost perfectly now, but there are two bugs: Line 4 in your WPS doesn't show the music's genre or bitrate, it shows the filename of the next song instead. This might be due to my files not including a genre tag. (I never use that information.) You should use a conditional to handle such cases.

Also, your custom status bar seems a bit too wide, I can't see the volume indicator.

Not a bug, but a thing to consider: I'm from a country with 24-hour time format (hence my wacky use of the English language) and your theme only shows the 12-hour format. Why not make that dynamic, like this:


--- Code: ---%?cf<%cH:%cM|%cl:%cM %cp>
--- End code ---



--- Quote from: Darin ---Do I need to include the font folder, just without the font, or no font folder at all? Are the tango icons also default?
--- End quote ---
There is no need to include the empty font folder. The tango icons are default, but all the themes I saw seem to include them and the theme checker doesn't complain about that. If something is wrong with your theme it will tell you exactly what to do.
 

--- Quote from: Darin ---Also, if I upload it, does it need to be able to work under 3.6, or whatever the Simulator is using? The one I linked originally works well on 3.6 (current build?), but not at all under the simulator. The one that works under the simulator doesn't work on my player with 3.6.
--- End quote ---
You should test your theme with one of the latest daily builds. Manuals are also built daily. Get both files here: http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml

Corresponding daily builds of the simulator can be found here: http://rasher.dk/rockbox/simulator/

Mhm. That's all, at least I think so.  :)

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: Progweed on August 06, 2010, 11:26:48 AM ---You should test your theme with one of the latest daily builds.

--- End quote ---

Well, that depends on whether you want it to work with the current release build 3.6, or the current daily builds.




--- Quote from: Progweed on August 06, 2010, 11:26:48 AM ---Corresponding daily builds of the simulator can be found here: http://rasher.dk/rockbox/simulator

--- End quote ---

There are *NO* daily builds of the simulator.


There are 3.6 Release Builds

and

Builds built after the skin syntax change
*which are now almost 3 months old*

However, there are no daily builds available.

If you would like an absolutely current build of the simulator, you will have to compile it yourself from source.



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