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amayer:
This is a theme I created with Arindel.
It is based on his Hazard Theme( http://fav.me/d51143j ).

Comments and suggestions would be appreciated!

See Hazard Dark to download the theme.
See Hazard Light to download the theme.

IncurableAbbe:
I love these two themes! Exactly what I was looking for. I was afraid I would never find a Rockbox theme that looked like it could have already come with the iPod itself. Easy on the eyes, clean, and I really love the color scheme on both the light and dark.

As for suggestions, I only have two:

1) The font used on the Now Playing screen doesn't show special characters:

I've tried changing the font but then I end up ruining the placement of the words. (Not sure how to phrase that sentence exactly... The words "Playing.../Paused" will move on top of the play bar, for example.)

2) The grey box seems unnecessary. Square album covers hide it anyway, and if the cover is rectangular, you see this bit of grey behind it which isn't too attractive:

I've tried removing the square and replacing "backdrop.bmp" but it messes up the entire theme once I restart. Not sure what I'm doing wrong there... It's like the theme knows it's not the original backdrop file.

Love the professional look and the layout, though. I also like the default album cover that shows up when a song has none to begin with. People tend to overdo it with colors resulting in a amateur looking design but you've stuck to a theme so everything here is consistent and fits together nicely. Thanks again!

[Saint]:
I'm not entirely sure what went wrong for you with your edits, they are both fairly trivial.

For the fonts, in the .sbs file you will find them defined in lines 17, 18 and 19. For the .wps you will find the fonts defined in lines 16, 17 and 18:

%Fl(2,14-crox-helvetica.fnt)
%Fl(3,14-crox-helvetica-bold.fnt)
%Fl(4,13-Fixed-SemiCond.fnt)

You should edit the .sbs and .wps by supplying your desired fonts name(s) in replacement of the font(s) you wish to replace, and replace the themes original font files with your desired fonts:

%Fl(2, my_custom_font1.fnt)
%Fl(3, my_custom_font_bold.fnt)
%Fl(4, my_other_custom_font.fnt)

For example.

That would be the only modifications needed to replace your desired font(s). As for the backdrop, all you need to do is replace the backdrop.bmp file with one of your own, or the edited original while respecting the original file's dimensions (it must be the same dimensions as the screen resolution) and naming scheme (backdrop.bmp) and saving as a 16/24bit .bmp


[Saint]


Note for amayer:

There's an odd syntactical error, which is apprently harmless, but should be corrected in lines 34 and 37 of the .sbs and in lines 33 and 36 of the .wps where you use alignment tags on a viewport declaration. It seems it is only used this way for the album art viewports, perhaps in an effort to center align the album art, however album art is aligned (correctly, in the theme itself) by the optional alignment tuples in the %Cl tag as you can see in line 28 of the .sbs and line 27 of the .wps

tl;dr

"you can't use the alignment tags for a viewport declaration"

amayer:

--- Quote from: IncurableAbbe on October 18, 2012, 01:26:48 AM ---I love these two themes! Exactly what I was looking for. I was afraid I would never find a Rockbox theme that looked like it could have already come with the iPod itself. Easy on the eyes, clean, and I really love the color scheme on both the light and dark.

--- End quote ---

Thank you it mean alot to hear this.


--- Quote from: IncurableAbbe on October 18, 2012, 01:26:48 AM ---The grey box seems unnecessary. Square album covers hide it anyway, and if the cover is rectangular, you see this bit of grey behind it which isn't too attractive.

--- End quote ---

The grey box gives a 1 pixel border around the edge of the album art then there is a 1 pixel black border then a drop shadow... for now the grey box is staying. I think it adds alot when you have your album art is square.
I can ask the artist to give me a version without the album art there. Ill keep you posted


--- Quote from: IncurableAbbe on October 18, 2012, 01:26:48 AM ---Love the professional look and the layout, though. I also like the default album cover that shows up when a song has none to begin with. People tend to overdo it with colors resulting in a amateur looking design but you've stuck to a theme so everything here is consistent and fits together nicely. Thanks again!

--- End quote ---

Arindel gets all the credit for this. He is the one that designed the theme. I just coded up what he gave me. It is an amazing theme tho. Its the one I use the most personally.

The things [Saint] mentioned should work(He knows what he is talking about).

-amayer

[Saint]: i updated the things you mentioned. thank you.

IncurableAbbe:

--- Quote from: amayer on October 20, 2012, 02:05:35 AM ---
Thank you it mean alot to hear this.

--- End quote ---
;D

And thanks, [Saint]. I think my problem was the fact that I was only editing the .wps for the font. I'll try out what you said.

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