How can I fix "botio" theme for my clipv2 using rockbox 3.7

[cereal_killer]

Hello Rockbox community,

today I completely removed rockbox from my clipv2 and reinstalled rockbox 3.7 with all fonts and my favourite theme called botio using the installer. Before that, I used r28068 because everything worked fine with it.

Now the problem is, that on the WPS the artist name and the titles are only shown about one second after starting playing a track or skipping to the next track and then disappearing the same time as the disk activity icon disappears. When a line is scrolling, the text reappears for a short period of time when the scrolling stops, then disappears again.

I could reproduce that behaviour using toady's simulator build and checking the theme with the simulator.

On the theme site it states "works with release 3.7", but it's not working for me.

How can I fix this, because I want to stick with 3.7.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

c_k

[sockbox]

Comment or remove the %wi line.

Code: [Select]

# enable the status bar
#%wi


[pixelma]

The above suggestion helps but will change the look of the WPS as there won't be a statusbar. It also seems to help (tested in the sim) to put this slightly lower placed statusbar in an own viewport. I'd also suggest to fix the other viewports' heights as they are overlapping and could cause update problems too. Here are the changes I did:

...
# enable the status bar
%V(0,4,-,12,1)
%wi
...
%V(0,16,-,9,2)
%ac%s%?it<%it|%fn>
...
%V(0,25,-,15,1)
...
# progress bar
%V(0,40,-,10,1)

It's a bit weird that this is needed as I would have expected %wi taking care of this "itself" internally.

[cereal_killer]

Hello there,

everything works like a charm now.

Thank you sockbox and pixelma.

Greetings, c_k

[ari]

The problem is still present as of today's latest build, with the stock botio theme.

A real time waster for new users

But- the theme rocks. And the below fix works great.

For newbies and my own future reference, the changes are needed in the "botio.wps" file located in:

/your_clip_mountpoint/.rockbox/themes   (if you use linux/nautilus, press ctrl-H to view this folder)

[[Saint]]

The problem is still present as of today's latest build, with the stock botio theme.

A real time waster for new users

It is up to the theme author to keep the skin updated.

Some time ago skin syntax changed, and the themesite was batch updated.

The script could not however foresee the need to place some items in their own viewports, that part of the update (if necessary) is still up to the author to maintain.

That being said, the theme is licensed as CC-BY-SA so there's nothing to stop you from editing it and uploading a version yourself with the necesary changed applied.


[St.]