Album Art in status bar?

[MrMuh]

Hello,

I have recently discovered rockbox for my iPod 5G and I am really amazed. But I want to preserve the iPod skin (with a bit enhanced functionality, obviously ). Currently, I try to implement the album art in the status bar similar to this screen, but it doesn't show up...

currently, my code for this purpose is this:

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%?C<%VI(Ayes)%Vd(aa)|%VI(Ano)>

#UI Viewport
%Vi(Ano,0,24,-,-,1)

#UI Viewport, Album Art present
%Vi(Ayes,0,24,160,-,1)
%Vl(aa,160,24,160,-,1)
%Cl(0,0,206,206,l,t)
%Cd

If an album art is present, the screen gets cut into half, but instead of showing the cover, I just see the white background. The cover itself is ok because it shows up in the wps.
Has anyone an idea?

[JdGordon]

you need to put the %Cd and %Cl into a normal (conditional) vewport, %Vi is only used to position the viewport, nothing in it actually gets drawn

[MrMuh]

Aren't the %Cl and %Cd in the viewport %Vl(aa,160,24,160,-,1)?

[JdGordon]

ah, yes they are :p ok not sure why that isnt working then :/

[Giova]

I'm facing a similar issue with this code:

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#main viewport
%Vi(p,0,70,240,248,-)
%Vi(s,0,70,240,275,-)
%?if(%mp,=,1)<%VI(s)|%VI(p)>

To me something is wrong with the infoviewport usage.

[MrMuh]

Hm, I don't know why, but I got the problem solved by having an empty line between %Vi and %Vl. My code looks no as follows:

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#Menu Check
%?cs<%Vd(m)%?C<%Vd(aa)%VI(Ayes)|%VI(Ano)>|%Vd(w)%VI(Ano)|%Vd(r)%VI(Ano)|%Vd(f)%VI(Ano)|%Vd(p)%VI(Ano)>

#UI Viewport
%Vi(Ano,0,24,-,-,1)

#UI Viewport, Album Art present
%Vi(Ayes,0,24,160,-,1)

%Vl(aa,160,24,160,-,1)
%Cl(-28,0,216,216,c,t)%Cd

Now I wonder, if there exist any nested viewports in rockbox. Is it better to have always an empty line between viewports?

@Giova: You have to put the line displaying the viewports before the lines loading the viewports:

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#main viewport
%?if(%mp,=,1)<%VI(s)|%VI(p)>
%Vi(p,0,70,240,248,-)
%Vi(s,0,70,240,275,-)

[Giova]

Oh yes!
Solved with your suggestions:

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#main viewport
%?if(%mp,=,1)<%VI(s)|%VI(p)>

%Vi(p,0,70,240,248,-)

%Vi(s,0,70,240,275,-)

[MrMuh]

Ok, this doesn't have exactly sth. to do with the album art, but I have problems with the UI viewports.
I do want a different UI viewport for the recording and playlist screen. So I tried this:

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%?cs<%?C<%VI(Ayes)%Vd(aa)|%VI(Ano)>||%VI(rec)%Vd(r)||%VI(pl)%Vd(p)>

I declared the %Vi and the %Vl viewports later in the code but the UI viewports %VI(rec) and %VI(pl) are not loaded, whereas %VI(Ayes) and %VI(Ano) works fine, the conditional viewports %Vd(r) and %Vd(p) are also present on the corresponding screens...
What's wrong with this code? Thanks in advance!

[MrMuh]

Ok, this doesn't have exactly sth. to do with the album art, but I have problems with the UI viewports.
I do want a different UI viewport for the recording and playlist screen. So I tried this:

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%?cs<%?C<%VI(Ayes)%Vd(aa)|%VI(Ano)>||%VI(rec)%Vd(r)||%VI(pl)%Vd(p)>

I declared the %Vi and the %Vl viewports later in the code but the UI viewports %VI(rec) and %VI(pl) are not loaded, whereas %VI(Ayes) and %VI(Ano) works fine, the conditional viewports %Vd(r) and %Vd(p) are also present on the corresponding screens...
What's wrong with this code? Thanks in advance!

no one? I experimented a bit for myself and it seems the UI viewports only react to the menu screen, neither the recording nor the playlist screen. It seems to be a bug (or a feature? ). Would be nice, if someone can confirm this.

[Avalon]

I tried the following:

%?cs<%Vi(-,1,17,219,110,1)|%Vi(-,1,17,219,110,1)|%Vi(-,1,30,219,97,1)|%Vi(-,1,60,219,50,1)|%Vi(-,1,17,219,110,1)>

I had hoped that I could nest the UI definition in the screen conditional directly.

This command line was rejected outright as an error.

I also tried defining 5 UI view ports %Vi with unique labels prior to the %?cs.  Then within the %?cs I used %VI(label) for each of the screens.

This approach did not generate errors, but the first UI definition was used for all screens.  It looks like the other 4 definitions were ignored.  It seems that only 1 UI can be defined and it is used for all sbs screens.

If someone has a solution to this or can indicate how the code is written, I would appreciate it.

[JdGordon]

you cant put Vi inside conditionals like that, they are used like normal viewport definitions... put %VI() inside the conditional

[Avalon]

I just tried the following:

#User Information viewports
%?cs<%VI(g)|%VI(g)|%VI(h)|%VI(i)|%VI(g)>

# Vi AREA (MENU)
%Vi(g,1,43,219,84,1)
%Vi(h,1,17,219,110,1)
%Vi(i,1,17,219,110,1)


The FM and Recording screens still used the first definition %Vi(g,1,43,219,84,1)

The latter two definitions appear to be ignored, at least using these instructions.

Any suggestions?

[JdGordon]

for some unknown reason you need to add a blank line between the Vi lines

[Avalon]

Thank you for the suggestion.  I read that post as well and have tried the following:

#User Information viewport Conditional
%?cs<%VI(g)|%VI(g)|%VI(h)|%VI(i)|%VI(g)>

#User Information Area Definitions
%Vi(g,1,43,200,84,1)

%Vi(h,1,17,219,110,1)

%Vi(i,1,17,219,110,1)

next code line

Unfortunately, this does not work for me.  All Screens with the exception of the WPS use the %Vi(g,1,43,200,84,1) definition. 

Is there anything wrong with my syntax or approach?

The UI Area Definition controls placement, width and height for all the screens, but does not appear to allow different UI Vewports for each screen as defined by the %?cs conditional.  At least, that is what is happening for me when I use the code listed above.

[Giova]

The Vi viewports (Info viewport) are displayed only in the sbs, you can't use info viewports in that way, you may need to use standard conditional viewports, VI Vd.
Take a look here: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CustomWPS#Viewports