Can Anyone Design a Custom Skin for Me?

[YetAnotherSuperhero]

Is there anybody out there who can design a custom skin for my old man so he can read his Sansa e200 without using his reading glasses?

I don't have a whole lot of money, but I'd gladly pay someone $20 if they could do this for me.

I've included a picture of how it should be.

[audio-i]

This is unusual and certainly not an official policy, but if everyone is OK with it, I'll do it. I like the cause, and the sketch you made with stickers and all  I won't take the money though; there's a paypal link at rockbox.org if you'd like to contribute to the project.

[YetAnotherSuperhero]

Thank you very much! I'm happy to contribute the $20 to Rockbox. If you could make the skin work for my dad it'd be very much appreciated.

And maybe a bunch of other old guys could use it too!

[audio-i]

The contribution through paypal is of course optional (in case that wasn't clear already)

I just need you to give me a name for your theme.

[YetAnotherSuperhero]

Yes, I understand the contribution is optional but I'm very happy to do it.

What if we call it "Big"?

[Progweed]

That's a cute sketch. 

[audio-i]

OK it's done http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1262&target=sansae200

   


Please let me know how it works and if it's what you had in mind.

It would be nice to add to it the possibility of displaying graphical volume and battery anyway, according to the user settings, like DrewVosburg did in Thin Basic (currently the background and foreground colours for "Big" are user configurable, as well as the font, which is initially set to 27-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold), so if someone wants to add this feature, or others that do not affect the readibility of the theme, I'll be glad to include them.

And as a note, many people liked the original sketch you did, someone even came up with the theme's name, Pen&Post-it So don't be surprised if someone comes up with the version that includes the post-its  

[YetAnotherSuperhero]

Thank you very much! It was exactly what I wanted. It works perfectly.

By the way, I just donated the $20, keep up the good work!

Hopefully a lot of people will enjoy the skin, I know my father will.

[pixelma]

It would be nice to add to it the possibility of displaying graphical volume and battery anyway, according to the user settings, like DrewVosburg did in Thin Basic (currently the background and foreground colours for "Big" are user configurable, as well as the font, which is initially set to 27-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold), so if someone wants to add this feature, or others that do not affect the readibility of the theme, I'll be glad to include them.

I'd like to add some information about using graphics with foreground and background colours - as reading between the lines and looking at the screenshots tell me that it's not widely known and e.g. a graphical progressbar that still adjusts to these could give the theme a nice touch.

There are two ways to make a graphic use colours set globally or as defined in your WPS / SBS / FMS (those overrule the global ones):

• Use monochrome bitmaps (I mean real 1-bit ones) - the black parts will use the foreground colour and the white ones will use the background colour (or be transparent on a backdrop or other bitmap). This method also works on greyscale targets with shades set through %Vf/b. Also, the bitmaps are smaller and take less skin buffer.
• Use either of the two "magic" colours - the one for "transparent" or background colour is already better known - magenta (255-0-255 in hex RGB) and there's another for the foreground colour and that's pure cyan (0-255-255 in hex RGB). This method works only on colour targets but has the advantage that it also works together with other colours. E.g. you could make the border around the playback status icons use the foreground colour and the rest staying grey.

I'll see about adding this info to CustomWPS and the manual - need to figure out where exactly it could go and how to describe it in a short way though.

[audio-i]

...there's another for the foreground colour and that's pure cyan (0-255-255 in hex RGB). This method works only on colour targets but has the advantage that it also works together with other colours. E.g. you could make the border around the playback status icons use the foreground colour and the rest staying grey.[/li]
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Personally, I didn't know about this, good to know  

I'll see about adding this info to CustomWPS and the manual - need to figure out where exactly it could go and how to describe it in a short way though.

The "transpararent" colour is mentioned here http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CustomWPS#xd_45_Display_a_preloaded_40sub_41image, maybe the rest could be added there too?

Edit: I added the information to the mentioned section in CustomWPS

[DrewVosburg]

maybe the rest could be added there too?

Please do!  I did not know about this, this seriously affects Thin Basic!  UPDATE TIME! =)

[rbhawaii]

thats great!
i made this a long time ago to have the volume show from 0 to 100%


 %?pv<0|2|4|6|8|10|12|14|16|18|20|22|24|26|28|30|32|34|36|38|40|42|44|46|48|50|52|54|56|58|60|62|64|66|68|70|72|74|76|78|80|82|84|86|88|90|92|94|96|98|100|max>

(the above is all one line)
hope it helps even more

[[Saint]]

i made this a long time ago to have the volume show from 0 to 100%


 %?pv<0|2|4|6|8|10|12|14|16|18|20|22|24|26|28|30|32|34|36|38|40|42|44|46|48|50|52|54|56|58|60|62|64|66|68|70|72|74|76|78|80|82|84|86|88|90|92|94|96|98|100|max>

That's all very well and good...but, it doesn't accurately represent a percentile at all.


[St.]

[rbhawaii]

how would you code the line so that it would accurately represent a percentile from 0 to 100 for ipod video
thanks for your feed back

[ajburges]

how would you code the line so that it would accurately represent a percentile from 0 to 100 for ipod video
thanks for your feed back

Ack.

The volume display from my experience works on a logarithmic scale. So to keep a pattern close to  a linear scale your line would be of the form:

%?pv<1|2|2|3|3|3|4|4|4|4>

keep in mind that doing such a detailed percentile display with icons will suck memory like a Hoover. Use larger steps to reduce memory footprint. Also keep in mind that the code size of a linear scale increases exponentially with the number of states tracked.