checkwps support broken on actual UI simulators?

[heinrichh]

Sorry my first post here looks like a complaint...

Wanted to update my Classical_dark theme for Ipod Video 5G and used the RB UI simulator I downloaded compiled from here. After starting the simulator with the --checkwps option, the dos window of the simulator told the option is set but when selecting my old theme which is in fact not compatible with the actual builds the simualtor didn't mark any error or even a warning.

When creating the the original theme the simulator was a very helpful tool but now it can't help in making an error free theme. Any hints or what am I doing wrong?

[bluebrother]

When creating the the original theme the simulator was a very helpful tool but now it can't help in making an error free theme. Any hints or what am I doing wrong?

No idea about checkwps, haven't checked but you might be interested in the Theme Editor which also gives error messages on wrong / broken tags. It's not 100% up to date with the current syntax though.

[JdGordon]

im not sure what the status of the debug output from the sim is, I need to make sure it all gets back, but yes, as bluebrother said, you should try the theme editor (although it gets slightly out of date sometimes as it doesnt have any real active maintainers and it is c++ and I'd rather stab myself in the face than have to work in it )

[[Saint]]

im not sure what the status of the debug output from the sim is...

Absolutely none.


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[heinrichh]

...theme editor...

Not reliable / usable for me. It complains about non existing errors - didn't find any images - which are infact there and are loadable for the UI. So how shall I test my theme for errors with the theme editor if the program didn't find the images which you should load fist?

[[Saint]]

Not reliable / usable for me. It complains about non existing errors - didn't find any images - which are infact there and are loadable for the UI. So how shall I test my theme for errors with the theme editor if the program didn't find the images which you should load fist?

It sounds like the directory structure for your project is wrong.

I use the theme editor to develop my themes, and, I have no troubles in this respect.



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[heinrichh]

It's exactly the directory structure for the upload and realistic use. The wps file Classical_Dark.wps is in the .rockbox/wps folder and the related images reside in .rockbox/wps/Classical_Dark/ so I don't know what there might be wrong. The UI simulator does find the images.

Has the theme editor to be in a specific folder? Actually it is outside .rockbox.

[bluebrother]

Has the theme editor to be in a specific folder? Actually it is outside .rockbox.

No, not that I'm aware of. Is that theme available somewhere so I can take a look?

[heinrichh]

with a lot trial and error it's ready now. Have prepared a zip for the upload to the theme site. In the meantime you can download it from this location:

http://www.multiupload.com/FPTQGK7CGN

Even if it's ready now I'm very interested if you can look into because I want to convert it for the smaller screen of the Sansa Fuze which I own actually.

Update: Have uploaded the theme to the theme gallery (Classical_Dark).

[bluebrother]

Not reliable / usable for me. It complains about non existing errors - didn't find any images - which are infact there and are loadable for the UI. So how shall I test my theme for errors with the theme editor if the program didn't find the images which you should load fist?

Ok, I've looked into that issue. It seems to fail *only* if you load the wps directly, it works fine if you load the theme configuration (File / Open Project). However, if you load the wps other things will also be missing (most notably the font) since the wps file doesn't know about this.

Can you confirm this behaviour? From what I can see the problem arises when the Theme Editor tries to construct the base path when loading a wps file directly. This should be rather easy to fix. Without loading the theme cfg it will always look broken though. It might be a good idea to automatically search for a cfg file and load that if found.

Edit: I've changed the mentioned issue and uploaded binaries for Windows and OS X built from svn. Can you retry with that version again? Get it at http://www.alice-dsl.net/dominik.riebeling/rockbox/themeeditor/

[heinrichh]

Thanks for the hint! You are right, when opening a projekt it will find all pics. However the pictures look distorted in the preview...

[[Saint]]

Thanks for the hint! You are right, when opening a projekt it will find all pics. However the pictures look distorted in the preview...

You need to set the screen size in the rendering options tab.


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[bluebrother]

Thanks for the hint! You are right, when opening a projekt it will find all pics. However the pictures look distorted in the preview...

Can you provide a screenshot of that distorted rendering? It look ok for me, at least from what I can judge (haven't compared with the original bitmaps yet)

[heinrichh]

First let me thank you for your assistance! Here are the pics:

First when opening the .wps file, second when opening the .cfg file and the third pic is the real thing.



You will see differences to the reality even when opening the .cfg file. For me it looks like there is some scaling and the scaling is incorrect.