Graphic Time/Date?

[Reece]

         Is there a theme tag, or a way to combine tags to make a graphic Time/Date display? So instead of using basic fonts for date and time, I would use .bmp files for the numbers. Is this possible? I have explored it a little, but didn't get far.

[[Saint]]

Hum...

You've reminded me again of the massive holes in the theme language documentation, the manual apparently neglects to mention an entire section on RTC tags in the Theme Tags section, anyway - here 'ya go.

EDIT: I didn't make it particularly obvious how one would achieve this. There's a few ways it could be done, but I'm pointing out right now that not a single one of them are particularly efficient. Despite what the (dated) CustomWPS page says, and single one of those tags should be able to function as a conditional statement.

But, if you want resolution in minutes, you're probably figuring out just now what you'll need 60 bitmaps for it - or 12 at 5 minutes with blank spaces in the conditional statement...and so on.

You could probably also use the %if or %and tags to check for a specific time, or time range. But its messy.

EDIT 2: I recall once upon a time assisting someone to make an analogue clock, with resolution in hours and 5 minute periods, using layered transparent bitmaps...similar thing, but with a lot less resources required. A digital time/date display using bitmaps is going to be rather a lot more wasteful.


[Saint]

[Reece]

Thanks, so I would use these tags in conjunction with others like so?
%?cH<%xd(1a)|%xd(1b).... and so on, and use pre-loaded images?

[audio-i]

If you want to take a look at an example (both time and date) check the AW200 theme http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1391&target=ipodvideo

[Reece]

Ah thanks. That's exactly what I needed.