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How to clear the No Playing screen (WPS) backdrop?

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chrisjj:
... please?

I find this screen backdrop is not cleared by Clear Backdrop. The only setting I have found that does clear this screen's backdrop is While Playing Screen, rockbox_failsafe, but this makes also changes that are unwanted.

I'm using the Creative ZEN port, in beta.

Thanks.

JdGordon:
you need to modify the wps file in .rockbox/wps/<theme name>.wps, delete the line which starts %X(<some filename>)

[Saint]:
I'm going to step in here and disagree with the prior statement.

You should not have to edit anything at all.

The clear backdrop function most definitely should work, and manually editing the .wps file is a band-aid fix which completely avoids the issue.

Would it work? Certainly.

Should you or anyone else need to do this when there is a perfectly good function that's supposed to do this for you? Absolutely not.


[Saint]

JdGordon:
OK, [Saint] thinks I may have misinterpreteed your question. Which theme are you using and which backdrop are you expecting it to clear which it doesnt?

What the "clear backdrop" setting *should* be doing is clear the backdrop specified in the config.cfg file (I think the line is just "backdrop: /path/to/image.bmp") Depending on the theme you are using this may not be the same one the WPS uses.

chrisjj:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on November 25, 2013, 06:44:40 PM ---What the "clear backdrop" setting *should* be doing is clear the backdrop specified in the config.cfg file
--- End quote ---

Indeed that's what I found and is confirmed by the manual at http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipodcolor/rockbox-buildch13.html#x16-33600013.1.6. It says that backdrop is for File Browser and menus, though I take that to mean all non-skinnable pages.

Having said which, I think the 'clear all backdrops' behaviour described by [Saint] is (would be) a much better design choice.


--- Quote from: JdGordon on November 25, 2013, 06:44:40 PM ---Depending on the theme you are using this may not be the same one the WPS uses.
--- End quote ---

Surely clearing the browser/menus backdrop using Clear Backdrop as currently documented, should not clear the WPS backdrop even when they are the same backdrop.

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