Themes not displaying right...

[samuraiBSD]

Hi, all...I'm new here and I'm having some problems getting my themes to work.  I have a 5.5 G video iPod and while it will boot the RockBox OS just fine, I can't seem to make it display themes right.  When I play songs, it won't display the play buttons or little fancy things like it shows when i click the download link on the themes site.  I'm putting WPS, Backdrops, Fonts and Themes in their corrosponding folders in the /.Rockbox directory, but none of them seem to work.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for the help

[Yotto]

What does show up?  The ugly default theme that only takes up the top half of the screen?

Did you "browse themes" and pick the themes you've downloaded?

Assuming you did, it's possible the themes you've downloaded have invalid codes in them and don't work on the newest build.  If there's any syntax errors in a WPS file, Rockbox will display the default WPS.  Try a few more, and try to download ones that look "simpler."  In particular, try "Ultima" near the bottom of the Wiki page.  I'm using it right now and therefore know it works.

[samuraiBSD]

ok, I tried some more and the only WPS that works for me is Aardvark.  I will try Ultima, though, and give you an update.

[samuraiBSD]

ok, so I killed my installation and installed that special iPod build that had album artwork support.  Now all my WPSs run, but no album art shows up.  I put the artwork into the music via iTunes.  Is there a way to display it correctly?

[DanManners]

I put the artwork into the music via iTunes.  Is there a way to display it correctly?

To my understanding, that is not how album art works in ROCKbox. You have to manually put a certain sized BMP (50x50, 75x75, 100x100, Depending on the theme) in the folder with the song you want and name it "cover.bmp" without quotations. Again, I could be wrong, but I believe that that is what you're supposed to do.

-Dan

[Mad Cow]

I put the artwork into the music via iTunes.  Is there a way to display it correctly?

To my understanding, that is not how album art works in ROCKbox. You have to manually put a certain sized BMP (50x50, 75x75, 100x100, Depending on the theme) in the folder with the song you want and name it "cover.bmp" without quotations. Again, I could be wrong, but I believe that that is what you're supposed to do.

-Dan

That's what you need to do, but if the build has the BMP resize patch, it doesn't need to be a certain size. The BMP could also be named after the album, artist or song.

[samuraiBSD]

I just gave up on the album art seeing as it isn't really necessary.  I got rid of the special build and went for one of the bleeding edge releases.  Themes work nicely, but when I'm trying to use the "Theme X Highbar" or Black Glass (sans album art), all the text is shifted down, so that the text doesn't line up with the image design.  Why is this happening?  I'd include a picture, but I don't have any cameras on me...

EDIT: I was able to get one WPS working completely right, and that was the original Rockamp theme.  Not sure why, but everything lines up perfectly

EDIT 2: It seems like the text only themes are working best.  Ultima works fine, but none of the WMP 11 based themes seem to want to work right.  I'm going to keep trying other themes, though...

[Yotto]

Note that many of the themes say they require patches to work.  If you're using a daily build you should stick to the themes that say that (or at least the ones that don't say you need a build).

[bascule]

... and you need to make sure you have installed the font pack.

[samuraiBSD]

Note that many of the themes say they require patches to work.  If you're using a daily build you should stick to the themes that say that (or at least the ones that don't say you need a build).

I'm only using the ones that say "any recent daily build" on them

I do have the font pack installed, but it still doesn't display right...

[Yotto]

Do a screen shot (See the manual on how, it's in the debug menu) and post it here (Link to it on another site if you can) so we can see what it looks like.

[samuraiBSD]

oddly enough, after I resinstalled rockbox (just replaced the ".rockbox" folder) everything seems to have fixed itself.  I'll try to apply the album art patches and see if everything still works.  I'm not sure why it didn't work the first few times I replaced the system files, but everything seems to work now, so thanks for all your help...

Since you wanted a screenshot of it, I took one anyway

[Girken]

I'm having the same issue and I can't quite follow your solution. Could you go into more detail please.

[Dook]

This post is over 17 years old, the theme engine has changed a lot since then. It's quite difficult to tell what the issue you're experiencing is, but if it's still a problem I'd recommend making a new post detailing what is happening for you.