is it possible to change the splash screen?

[Kitty]

and make it abit cooler?

even if it means editing the cvs on my own risk.. :]

[Mikerman]

Yep.  You need to change the splashscreen image and then compile (and so, you have to compile the code yourself--this does not work with precompiled code).

Check out the thread at  http://misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=45103&highlight=%2Asplash%2A; it's very easy to do.  Mine now includes my "return to" info.

The general instructions:  

To change the boot logo before you've compiled the source, you just need to go into the \apps\bitmaps\native directory within the source code, and change the correct bmp file.

[Kitty]

great thanks for the info mate..

another question, can i make it full screen?

[Mikerman]

I believe that's what the current splashscreens are close to--you can replace the image entirely if you wanted to, I would suppose.  (You also can eliminate the few lines of space at top before the splashscreen image starts, but that requires changing some of the code--there is a post here, I believe, that discusses the lines to change, but I can't find it--and it only was a couple or so of lines of space.)

[Davide-NYC]

I've changed the startup info screen bitmap to read:

Please Return To:
Gene Simmons
(555) 555-5555

But it up for so little that you don't even have time to read it.
Can I insert a delay of x seconds?
Is this easy to implement?

[Kitty]

ok, and another question...

do you guys think it would be possible to change the Statusbar? not the player statusbar, the browser one... mabye add some imgs?

[psycho_maniac]

i found this one
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/2981
and this one
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/2931
take a look and see which one you like
for more info this is a good site to search for stuff like this  http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/index.php?type=4

[Mikerman]

Unfortunately, both very old . . . .

[Mmmm]

Can I insert a delay of x seconds?
Is this easy to implement?

Yep, easy... Just add a sleep line in main.c in the function called app_main
so, change

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void app_main(void)
{
    init();
    browse_root();
}

to

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void app_main(void)
{
    init();
    sleep(HZ * x);
    browse_root();
}

where x is the no. of seconds delay you want.

ok, and another question...

do you guys think it would be possible to change the Statusbar? not the player statusbar, the browser one... mabye add some imgs?

No, this isn't possible as there is only one statusbar so if you change one you change them all. It is possible to change the icons that are already there if you want though.
In apps/recorder/icons.c you can see lots of code that looks like this:

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const unsigned char bitmap_icons_7x8[][7] =
{
    {0x08,0x1c,0x3e,0x3e,0x3e,0x14,0x14}, /* Power plug */
    {0x1c,0x14,0x3e,0x2a,0x22,0x1c,0x08}, /* USB plug */
    {0x01,0x1e,0x1c,0x3e,0x7f,0x20,0x40}, /* Speaker mute */
    {0x00,0x7f,0x7f,0x3e,0x1c,0x08,0x00}, /* Play */

etc...
Each row of numbers is an icon.
To make your own icons you need to change the numbers.
Your icon must be the same dimensions as it says at the top (in this case 7 wide 8 high).
so make your monochrome icon and then in the root of your source code type

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tools/bmp2rb -f 0 myicon.bmp

and as if by magic the numbers you need will appear...Just copy and paste them into the code and you have your own icon!

not too bad eh?

[Kitty]

yea pretty cool :]

hmm.. no way getting a real img into there? not those monochrome icons ?:<

[Mmmm]

yea pretty cool :]

hmm.. no way getting a real img into there? not those monochrome icons ?:<

To tell you the truth I don't know... type in tools/bmp2rb and you get all the different f values ( 0 is for monochrome) maybe another would work without having to modify the code any more... Try it and you'll know all!

[Kitty]

Usage: bmp2rb [-i <id>] [-a] <bitmap file>
        -i <id>  Bitmap name (default is filename without extension)
        -h <dir> Create header file in <dir>/<id>.h
        -a       Show ascii picture of bitmap
        -f <n>   Generate destination format n, default = 0
                 0  Archos recorder, Ondio, Gmini 120/SP, Iriver H1x0 mono
                 1  Archos player graphics library
                 2  Iriver H1x0 4-grey
                 3  Canonical 8-bit greyscale
                 4  16-bit packed 5-6-5 RGB (iriver H300)
                 5  16-bit packed and byte-swapped 5-6-5 RGB (iPod)
                 6  Greyscale iPod 4-grey
                 7  Greyscale X5 remote 4-grey

there is the usage.. i assume i need 4 or 5 for 16-bit right?

edit: ok, i checked on a 7x8 bitmap, ang got this:

const unsigned short bitmap[] = {
0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x0000, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x8430, 0xd91a, 0xe0da, 0x83d0, 0x0000, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x8430, 0xf81d, 0xf81d, 0x8b91, 0x0000, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x8430, 0xf05c, 0xe0db, 0x8430, 0x0000, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x0000, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430,
0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430, 0x8430,

};

thats for -f 4.. 5 gives something like that.. wich is not good :<

btw, is there a way to search the CVS? :\

[Mmmm]

I don't think that is going to work.....

You would need to tweak the statusbar code to get that working I think!

grep searches within files so grep apps/recorder hello would give you all the lines in the recorder directory with hello in them... Although I haven't used it in a while as I now use Kate which comes with KDE and it does this without using the command prompt, so I may be a bit rusty.

[Kitty]

hmm, question is, where can i find the statusbar code ?

[Mmmm]

apps/gui/statusbar.c