Nano theme: "Jack"

[madsic]

Originally I just wanted to add album art to the Ipod_nano theme... (see this post: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=4239.0) and then it just sort of went from there 

I'm pretty pleased with the results but please let me know what you think and point out possible improvements before I upload it to the nano wps section.

Fancy features:

• Album cover art displays if any present (Rockbox must be compiled with the cover art hack; album cover art no greater than 50x50) If none is found the default is an apple logo in b/w.
• Neat colour scheme 
• All info conditionalized (e.g. title is replaced by filename if no title; if the ID3 contains 'year' and 'genre', 'year / genre' is displayed - if only year is present 'year' is displayed etc.)
• VolumeWheel(c)
• Maximum information with a minimum of cramp/crap
• Stylish garage chic oozing out of your pocket!

Screen dumps:





And a link to the theme:
http://files.viharpander.dk/jack.rar

Check out the earlier post for info on the workings of the theme. Or just ask.

Things I would like to improve:

• I tried adding quite a lot more images to the volume wheel thingy (about thirty, I think...  ) but only the first ten or so seemed to b recognised. Is this just the upper limit or did I just fumble it? I seemed odd to me when you consider that there are 80 or so volume levels if you display them with numbers.... If anybody knows...? It doesn't expressly say so on the CustomWPS page.
• Margins below the status bar. I think there is a hack but I'm not much for compiling the thing myself... A crude solution would be to insert white 'border' bmps at the left and right edges. Not very nice though.

[senab]

To do the volume I use 11 images at different intervals of battery, then load the ten images and use this:

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%?pv<%xda|%xdb|%xdc|%xdd|%xde|%xdf|%xdg|%xdh|%xdi|%xdj|%xdk>

[madsic]

To do the volume I use 11 images at different intervals of battery, then load the ten images and use this:

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%?pv<%xda|%xdb|%xdc|%xdd|%xde|%xdf|%xdg|%xdh|%xdi|%xdj|%xdk>

I'm not sure I understand... What does the battery level images have to do with volume level?

[senab]

Sorry forget the word battery, I meant volume

[madsic]

Sorry forget the word battery, I meant volume

Ah... I thought that maybe there was some secret switch between the two that would unlock the ability to use more levels  No such luck... Well that's pretty much what I'm doing. Out of the thirty images I only kept every third so I got back down to ten-eleven again.

[madsic]

New battery icon:



http://files.viharpander.dk/jack_0.2.rar

[madsic]

The theme's been uploaded to the nano section of the ipod wps listing.

Oh and the odd  "l/orbell" - I have no idea what that is. The other tracks from the album display correctly. Just a fluke, I think.

[madsic]

A bit prematurely it would seem... 

I just recharged it (under 'rockbox info' it says 98 %) and it still showing the same halfway-icon as before... I have checked the icons which all seem to be correct and properly named. Which leads me to conclude that there must be some problem with the wps-file:

The images are loaded:

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%xl|G|batt01.bmp|152|3|
%xl|H|batt02.bmp|152|3|
%xl|I|batt03.bmp|152|3|
%xl|J|batt04.bmp|152|3|
%xl|K|batt05.bmp|152|3|
%xl|L|batt06.bmp|152|3|
%xl|M|batt07.bmp|152|3|
%xl|N|batt08.bmp|152|3|
%xl|O|batt09.bmp|152|3|

And displayed:

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%?bl<%xdG|%xdH|%xdI|%xdJ|%xdK|%xdL|%xdM|%xdN|%xdO>

Anybody readin the wps file will notice the gap from the last volume icon (image 'k') up to the first battery icon ('G'). The interval was origally assigned for some twenty more volume images for a more smooth transition effect. These were abandoned (see above) I can't imagine this to have any effect but I thought I would mention it just for completeness.

Any ideas? Or if anybody has been using the set, have you seen the same thing?

EDIT: I just inserted an extra non-grpahic measure:
%?bl<0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9>
which translates 90% (rockbox info) into a '4'... I guess it makes sense if you can only have five levels... Again I seem to have misinterpreted the CustomWPS page... And you can't really complain about a wiki without doing something yourself.... Damn 

[RedBreva]

From http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CustomWPS#Power_related_information

%bl - Show numeric battery level in percent.
Can also be used in a conditional: %?bl<0|1|2|3|4>

Only 5 levels of battery are available ...

[madsic]

Yes, so I gathered. My mistake was that I took it to be an example of how you could divide the continuum 0-100 % into X discrete categories where X just happened to be five here. After all, it's just a bit of long division if you wanted say 9 instead. I think that could be clearer.

Or, as an afterthought, changed. If the idea is to let the user customize as much as possible why hardwire 10 volume levels and 5 battery states? I don't know anything about this sort of thing but surely you could just add the number of intervals you wanted as a first parameter (which would then be divided into 100 % or can't-remember-how-many-dB) and then go on to specify them.

[madsic]

For anybody interested, I updated the Nano section of whe WPS gallery with two more versions. Hope you like them 

[omne]

I love this theme but got two problems :
- I'm frensh, and in my language, there's accents, like this : éàâîê, the font you choose don't have them (i use an other font...)
- There's strange things on the screen something like :
50|10|xx|
I don't have the cover art hack, don't know how to do with this, maybe it's linked ?

Thank's a lot. I can play my ogg files and have a great look an my nano.

Omné

[travishayes89]

I love this theme but got two problems :
- I'm frensh, and in my language, there's accents, like this : éàâîê, the font you choose don't have them (i use an other font...)
- There's strange things on the screen something like :
50|10|xx|
I don't have the cover art hack, don't know how to do with this, maybe it's linked ?

Thank's a lot. I can play my ogg files and have a great look an my nano.

Omné

http://www.senab.co.uk/rockbox/ click on download, click on the part for the Nano, and the unzip it like a normal build

[omne]

Thx, it work's, but only with a non accentuated font.
I need to find one with accent and the same size.

Rockbox is realy great !

[madsic]

I love this theme but got two problems :
- I'm frensh, and in my language, there's accents, like this : éàâîê, the font you choose don't have them (i use an other font...)
- There's strange things on the screen something like :
50|10|xx|
I don't have the cover art hack, don't know how to do with this, maybe it's linked ?

Thank's a lot. I can play my ogg files and have a great look an my nano.

Omné

Merci - suis bien content que tu l'aime

I seem to recall that I didn't go through a lot of fonts - just found one that looked fitting and went with it. So there might very well be others that are just as suitable or better. Please let me know if you find one that works and has more 'foreign language' characters. I'm Danish myself - a langauage that has a few character quirks of it's one

As pointed out above senab's builds are excellent (I'm using an old one of his myself) I would however like to have a somewhat smoother animation for the volume wheel and battery levels which requires me to make a special build.... When I get the time