Pictureflow and WPS integration?

[CowonFTW]

Hi.

I scanned the forum and the tracker for a bug or patch, and this is not mentioned.

In reading plugin sources and playing with different themes that attempt to integrate Pictureflow, I started to wonder is there any technical reason that screen_dump couldn't be called within Pictureflow when selecting an album?

Logistically, when a new album cover is selected, couldn't you disable the show_album_name and show_fps texts, screendump, and reference the file in WPS? Implementing a mechanism to access the screendump in memory would be better than writing & reading a file, just due to Flash writes being finite, but does it sound feasible? Am I overlooking something that prevents this?

Thanks for reading.

[Llorean]

Why do you want a screen dump from pictureflow exactly? I can't follow what you're trying to accomplish exactly here.

[gbl08ma]

I think s/he's trying to define PictureFlow options inside the theme files (wps, sbs and cfg) which is not possible yet. But I'm not sure this is what s/he means.

[CowonFTW]

Sorry, assumption.

There's multiple themes that try to emulate CoverFlow, but cannot. They have static background images. The theme authors even bother to put such disclaimers in their descriptions, which infers a shortcoming in it's implementation.

What I am suggesting, since there's already a mechanism to do a screendump, to snapshot the screen inside Pictureflow when an album is selected, before it does the zoom-n-rotate animation or jumps back to the WPS depending on your WPS Integration setting, and utilize said snapshot as the current %X backdrop.

The goal being to make Pictureflow behave more like the software it's emulating.

It seems a basic enough concept, which is why I asked if there's something I'm not seeing that would make implementing it a hassle, as I would assume someone else had thought of this already.

[saratoga]

I think that would require substantially improved integration of pictureflow into the main rockbox app.  Or i guess adding something more like the WPS screen to pictureflow itself rather then switching back and forth between the pictureflow plugin and the main GUI for WPS.   

[torne]

Adding WPS functionality to PictureFlow would probably be the easiest way to do this "properly", yeah...