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Is it possible to import text into a .sbs file?
iPodVT:
I have several iPods (don't ask...), and each has a unique name. I would like to add a feature to my personal Rockbox theme that would display the iPod's unique name somewhere on the Main Menu screen. But I don't want each iPod to have to have a unique customized .sbs file with the iPod's name hard-coded in it. So I'm wondering if it's possible to import a piece of text into the .sbs file - maybe via some kind of "include file" type of mechanism - so that I can then just have a small unique text file on each iPod that contains only the iPod's name. Is this possible, or does anyone have a suggestion for a different/better way to accomplish this?
Thanks.
Frankenpod:
Don't know about a text file, but as a theme can load bitmaps, I suppose you could just hard-code the name as a bit map image (with the same name for the bitmap file on all of them) and have the SBS load that.
iPodVT:
Thanks very much for your reply and suggestion.
I actually considered that solution, but creating all of those bitmap files would be much more labor intensive than an equal number of text files.
Frankenpod:
How many iPods have you got! (I have about 30 at this point, and that's how I'd do it if I wanted to do that...wouldn't be that hard to make a text file then take a screenshot of it and save and crop the bitmap, surely? Don't think it would help for me as I tend to constantly switch themes anyway, though what I've occasionally thought would be handy is to have a different loading/RB splash screen for each of them...but the splash screen bitmap is hard-coded into RB, with good reason I guess)
I don't know then, maybe someone else will know of a way to display text.
rockbox_dev123:
Edit the English translation file to contain the iPod's name as a string, and then use:
--- Code: ---%Sx(iPodName)
--- End code ---
To display the "translation".
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