First Sansa Fuze Theme - Need Help Trying It Out

[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:

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%?cf<%cH:%cM|%cl:%cM %cp>

Do I need to include the font folder, just without the font, or no font folder at all? Are the tango icons also default?

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.
 

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.

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]]

You should test your theme with one of the latest daily builds.

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

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

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.



[St.]

[Progweed]

There are *NO* daily builds of the simulator.

I see. I got the date wrong and thought that these simulators were from an August build. Thanks for correcting this.

And regarding the syntax change: As a new user I don't think there is much sense in getting used to the old syntax, then having to unlearn it. That's why I pointed Darin to the most recent version of the simulator.

[mc2739]

There are *NO* daily builds of the simulator.

This page: http://rasher.dk/rockbox/simulator/ usually has new builds on a daily basis.  The builds listed there currently have a date/time similar to "2010-08-07 11:20 CEST" and are version "r27738-100807".

[ken147]

just installed it and it works great!!!!!! nice job, made it the default for my player