Animated graphics

[iPodFoo]

Hi.

Im trying to get the virtual hard drive on the Nano to show an animated graphic when in use, but for the life of me, I just cannot get it to work. I would have thought the following would work:

%?lh<%t0.1%xdp;%t0.1%xdq;%t0.1%xdr;%t0.1%xds;%t0.1%xdt;%t0.1%xdu|%xdv>

(%xdv being a blank). I want the image to flash up for 0.1 second then show the next one else show nothing.

But the above just stays on the image ID t for some reason.

If I do:

%?lh<%t0.1 %xdp;%t0.1 %xdq;%t0.1 %xdr;%t0.1 %xds;%t0.1 %xdt;%t0.1 %xdu|%xdv>

with spaces after the %t numbers it displays the animation fine, but its always on, and displays the blank in sequence as well.

Any ideas whats going on? Do I need to nest it somehow?

Ive had a look around for more info but couldnt find much. Cheers for any help.

[madcow]

Having the same problem.
Tried the same things you did returning the same errors. (X5)

Very frustrating.

[iPodFoo]

 

Still no luck, but thought Id post what else Ive tried:

%t0.1 %?hl<%xdp|%xdv>;%t0.1 %?hl<%xdq|%xdv>;%t0.1 %?hl<%xdr|%xdv>;%t0.1 %?hl<%xds|%xdv>;%t0.1 %?hl<%xdt|%xdv>;%t0.1 %?hl<%xdu|%xdv>

Still no go.  

Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Yotto]

I like this idea, though I wonder how much battery it will eat if you can get it working

I am sadly very busy right now on non-rockbox stuff (I'm terribly late with my podcast) but when I DO have time, assuming you don't get this licked, I will definately give this a look.  Sadly, it could be as late as Monday night or Tuesday before that happens

[iPodFoo]

There is a skin included with rockbox called iCatcher which might be of use.

It uses an animated icon which runs continually except when u set the volume. Dont think theres any mention of a drain in battery even tho it runs pretty much continuosly.

I still cant seem to adapt it to the virtual led.  

Somebody must know how to get this working.

Cheers.

ps. Best of luck Yotto!

[scorche]

Correct me if I am wrong (I just might be), but have a look at this and tell me if this is what you are trying to do or not.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpodMini#Dancing_Megaman

[madcow]

Interesting scorche!

That one is using: %?lh<%t0.2%xdtz|%t0.2%xsdz>;%?lh<%t0.2%xduz|%t0.2%xdsz>

I'm gonna give this a try, but what is the z?
%?lh<%t0.2%xdtz

[iPodFoo]

Currently trying it out. megaman one seems to work on the nano. but not with my images. i suspect there may be a filesize limit or something preventing it from getting displayed.

I also wonder what the z is for as theres no reference to it in the preload images list. It seems to diplay the letter z just out of sight from the screen.  

[madcow]

Not working.
Came out the same as I was trying before: messed up by transparency and when not transparent it will only display the last image.

[drippydonut]

Methinks I've come across this problem before in some Misticriver thread; let me just have a dig around...


EDIT: Ah yeah- it was discovered that for some reason %al tags had to be added before each %t...

Hurray!!!

Eventually this worked like a charm for me:

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%xl|A|bat0.bmp|194|9|
%xl|B|bat1.bmp|194|9|
%xl|C|bat2.bmp|194|9|
%xl|D|bat3.bmp|194|9|
%xl|E|bat4.bmp|194|9|
%al%t0.5%?bp<%xdA|%?bl<%al%xdA|%xdB|%xdC|%xdD|%xdE>>;%al%t0.5%?bp<%xdB|%?bl<%al%xdA|%xdB|%xdC|%xdD|%xdE>>;%al%t0.5%?bp<%xdC|%?bl<%al%xdA|%xdB|%xdC|%xdD|%xdE>>;%al%t0.5%?bp<%xdD|%?bl<%al%xdA|%xdB|%xdC|%xdD|%xdE>>;%al%t0.5%?bp<%xdE|%?bl<%al%xdA|%xdB|%xdC|%xdD|%xdE>>I don't understand why I have to put "%al" (left aligned text) before "%t" but it doesn't work without it! BTW, flash62, you forgot to load bat4.bmp in your code.

[madcow]

Doesn't work with the %al...
Must be something with the virtual led...

Right now I have:

%xl|w|hdd1.bmp|73|0|
%xl|x|hdd2.bmp|73|0|
%xl|y|hdd3.bmp|73|0|
%xl|z|hdd4.bmp|73|0|
%t0.5 %?lh<%xdw|>; %t0.5 %?lh<%xdx|>; %t0.5 %?lh<%xdy|>; %t0.5 %?lh<%xdz|>;

They're transparent hourglasses, situation now: turns correct but the last image is always shown even after hdd has stopped.
Help!

[Genre9mp3]

The "%al" thing is not necessary. The code in the 3rd post should normaly work. So either the virtual led in the wps code has some type of bug or the bmps for some reason aren't preloaded correctly.

[Farpenoodle]

It's been a long time since I made that WPS so I really can't for the life of me remember why I put a z after each %xd*. But I just tried taking away the z and it stopped working. So I'm going to have to assume that I was just playing around trying to get it working when all of a sudden I decided to put letters at the end of all my image display tags. Sorry if that's not particularly helpful. :p

[iPodFoo]

Anybody have any luck with this? Im still stuck on it. Closest Ive got is it does its thing, but when the hd has finished it just loops thru all the frames of the animation.

Code im using (trying out the z thang):

%?lh<%al%t0.2%xdpz|%al%t0.2%xdvz>;%?lh<%al%t0.2%xdqz|%al%t0.2%xdvz>;%?lh<%al%t0.2%xdrz|%al%t0.2%xdvz>;%?lh<%al%t0.2%xdsz|%al%t0.2%xdvz>;%?lh<%al%t0.2%xdtz|%al%t0.2%xdvz>;%?lh<%al%t0.2%xduz|%al%t0.2%xdvz>

[MrMEC]

No idea if this will work (I've never gotten animation to work, but I also haven't tried in ages), and can't test it.  But did you try this?

%?lh<%t0.2%xdp|>;%?lh<%t0.2%xdq|>;%?lh<%t0.2%xdr|>;%?lh<%t0.2%xds|>;%?lh<%t0.2%xdt|>;%?lh<%t0.2%xdu|>

or this?

%?lh<%t0.2 %xdp|>;%?lh<%t0.2 %xdq|>;%?lh<%t0.2 %xdr|>;%?lh<%t0.2 %xds|>;%?lh<%t0.2 %xdt|>;%?lh<%t0.2 %xdu|>

or this?

%t0.2 %?lh<%xdp|>;%t0.2 %?lh<%xdq|>;%t0.2 %?lh<%xdr|>;%t0.2 %?lh<%xds|>;%t0.2 %?lh<%xdt|>;%t0.2 %?lh<%xdu|>

Seems like one of these would have to work, or else I really don't know.