Nano theme: "Jack"

[madsic]

Summer's almost gone to quote Jim Morrison and I got bored.... So I decided to give the pretty tame main version a workover. Album art is gone (I can't really be bothered to do the whole download-compress-convert-rename-routine-anymore) but the main point is still to cram information in there without it getting ugly. Feedback/suggestions = welcome

Screendump  (colour somewhat distorted, more faded red than uhm cherry):


Download: http://files.viharpander.dk/jack3.zip

EDIT: I just took the opportunity to upgrade to the latest senab version and realized that scrolling margins were part of the package. Duly implemented (just replaced the file).

EDIT: I'm getting a little enamoured by the swirl graphic...  so I'd just point out that a quite nice lite version which reveals more of the graphic can be created by deleting the codec info and the 'next' lines... that's all

[Tiis]

Yeah, very nice! Your Themes are my favorite, so I edited it few days ago and made it foreigen characters confirm by choosing nimbus-12 as the new font, and today I see you did the same. I also applied some other minor changes to fit my expections




(Coverart works fine, besides the simulator..)

But next track feature is missing, so im going to have a deep look at your new one 

Thx madsic!

[madsic]

Thanks, Tiis - and feel free to tinker all you want

The time in the status bar is an excellent idea - i wonder if it could be done in graphics.... Hmmm... And I really like the branch graphic, very stylish

[denis_std]

I have the latest senab built but the Jack theme doesn't fit into the screen of my Nano 4GB.

Over the art image I get something like

34|34|345 ...

What can I do to let the theme fit for my iPod Nano screen?

[madsic]

I have the latest senab built but the Jack theme doesn't fit into the screen of my Nano 4GB.

Over the art image I get something like

34|34|345 ...

What can I do to let the theme fit for my iPod Nano screen?

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm not sure I'm entirely up to speed on the builds - at any rate I don't get that. The most likely explanation seems to be that the album art patch has changed the parameters used which would probably result in something like you're getting. I'll look into it - at any rate I'm working on new versions which will require a few other patches so I'll soon post some updates.

[madsic]

As I suspected, the syntax for the patch has been changed - the cover art bitmap is now first loaded and then placed. Which means that the line (in the file jack_white.wps)

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%C<%C|5|77|50|50|

Should be replaced by the lines:

Code: [Select]

%Cl|5|77|50|50|
%C

I'll try to do the new versions soon but my own nano has been acting up lately due to having been out in a rain storm   So testing is gonna take some patience....

[denis_std]

Thank you for your fast response. I will test that right now and post my experience.

Denis

Update:

Yeah with the fix it works just fine.

[mightybrick]

Yeah, very nice! Your Themes are my favorite, so I edited it few days ago and made it foreigen characters confirm by choosing nimbus-12 as the new font, and today I see you did the same. I also applied some other minor changes to fit my expections




(Coverart works fine, besides the simulator..)

But next track feature is missing, so im going to have a deep look at your new one  

Thx madsic!

Would you mind posting your altered version on the Nano WPS page on the wiki?  With  madsic's permission, of course!

[madsic]

Would you mind posting your altered version on the Nano WPS page on the wiki?  With  madsic's permission, of course!

Post it, peel it, pump it - as long as I get some kind of credit, I'm a happy camper

[madsic]

As promised, project Jackrabbit is underway...   There's alot of stuff I've found out that can't be done (the many-volume-levels-bitmaps patch, antialiasing....) but some improvements are finding their way into this.

Using Pijulius quartet of patches all themes are going to be converted to using multiple fonts and exact y-coordinate locations. If anybody's interested, here's a mugshot:



And if you want a testdrive:

Jackrabbit.zip

And as Company Flow says I could use some help: If anybody can confirm for me that it works with senab's julius-build, I would be very grateful. For various reasons (long story) I am having difficulties with his builds.

Oh and one final thing. I should warn you that there might be some issues with changing back to a WPS that does not use the options the patches enable. Nothing that a restart shouldn't fix, I believe.

[madsic]

Just wanted to add that I found out that it did.... This one won't though (uses a forgotten patch that let's you specify the y-coordinate of the progress bar) but I thought I'd post a screenshot for the benefit of anybody who cares:



The idea is to combine this with something like the screenshot from the prior post. The former should display when there is no album art, the latter when there is (using the newly introduced conditional album art tag, i.e. 'this should be displayed if there is album art to be found, this should be displayed if there isn't any') but the combination of pijulius' patches and the album art patch is not without problems so I'm awaiting that he tries to the same trick himself.

[madcow]

Hi!
Just informing I've ported and modded your nice theme to the iAudio X5.
The credits to you are in the archive.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIaudioX5#JeroenKlomp

[madsic]

Hi!
Just informing I've ported and modded your nice theme to the iAudio X5.
The credits to you are in the archive.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIaudioX5#JeroenKlomp

Nice work And thanks.

[madsic]

I finally got down to giving the themes an overhaul. There is now a new main line with a focus on layout (Jackinabox) and updated editions of some of the other versions I've made down the line.

The Jackinabox version has specified y-coordinates for text lines as well as the progress bar which makes it a lot easier getting the wps to look neat and utilizes the mulitple font patch for a more logical WPS structure (artist, song and album info in big, bold letters; somewhat smaller and lighter letters for playlist info and a small, heavy font for time and track length/progress). I have also tried to keep the status bar uncluttered by moving pause and lock icons out of it. These now take the place of other info when activated but don't I think anything important is lost in the move.

If you want to use Jackinabox, please download this build or make your own by using pijulius' patches (1 through 5 should suffice) and glitter's progressbar ycoordinate patch. Please note that my custom build is over a month old as the patches are in need of upgrading and that it will distort other themes due to the presence of the progress bar y coordinate patch (since no y coordinate is specified for 'normal' theme progress bars, they are displayed at y=0).

If you prefer not to use a specialised build or still want album art, the older ones have been updated and tidied up, so that they should be compatible with current daily builds.

I hope you like the new themes.

P.S. A big thanks to pijulius for the patches and help offered.

[ryran]

My nano's dead now, but I just wanted to acknowledge all the great work you did on this dude. They look nice.