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Is a theme such as this possible?

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roach:

--- Quote from: mnhnhyouh on October 03, 2006, 09:33:21 PM ---To properly implement this patch would require a small txt file stored in the albums directory that would be read so the theme could assign a text colour that looked good against the album art, and was readable.
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Eep. Hadn't thought of that.


--- Quote from: Yotto ---(I did two battery drain tests, one normal, one blanked, and the blanked screen lasted 6:40 while unblanked lasted 6:20.  Not sure if that's worth not having a screen.)
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Yotto, by "blanked", do you mean with the backlight turned OFF (ie: dark screen)? From my limited understanding, LCDs consume the same amount of power, regardless of how many pixels are "turned on" at any one time (as opposed to OLED displays, which only consume power in relation to the number of pixels being "used"). The backlight would probably consume most of this power. Again, from what I've seen (though I may be mistaken), I don't think there's any functionality in RockBox to actually turn OFF the backlight on the LCD. Do you get better battery life with the Apple Firmware?

Yotto:
By blanked I mean blank, nothing on the screen.  My guess/thought/hope/whatever was that, if you don't display it, you don't process it.  This is more than blind faith, because when I turn hold off (I blank all lines based on the hold switch) the WPS shows the old screen for a second, before updating to the new song.  This implies I'm saving some processor power, and also saving the extra HDD time to load the album art.

Rockbox can turn off the backlight.  In the base build, you can do it on a time limit, and I think have a different time limit based on if the device is plugged in.  In Senab's build (which I use), via various patches, you can also set the backlight off on hold, and the backlight brightness.  With hold off (and therefore the backlight goes off in 30 seconds, but the pixels stay "on" and change based on time/album/hdd state) the battery died 20 minutes earlier for me than it did in the exact same situation with the hold switch on.

As to the Apple Firmware, I have no clue.  My iPod has spent more time in the Apple Firmware while charging the battery for the first time than it has ever since then.  I bought it to put Rockbox on it and use Rockbox exclusively on it :D

pixeldotz:
actually, a theme like this is very possible, aside from the large font.

i started working on a theme like this a few days ago for my h10. it switches the back art everytime a new track from another folder (cover.bmp) is displayed.

the problem is it's time consuming, i haven't been able to work on it much since i can't compile an h10 (20gb) uisim with those patches. i get  errors everyone.

if someone could compile me a win32 uisim for the h10(20GB) with these patches,
http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=46843

then i'll gladly continue working on this theme and release it for whatever platforms want it.

Videofolife13:
Hey Mr.530. I think a way this could be possible is to use the album art patch, but make the album art full screen and just have the same album art for the artist in general. ie: use a picture of 50 cent on all his albums. I don't know if the art is applied over or under the text in the wps, but if it is applied under, this could work with relitive ease.
- Yessir, Video

scorche:

--- Quote from: pixeldotz on October 04, 2006, 08:58:25 PM ---i haven't been able to work on it much since i can't compile an h10 (20gb) uisim with those patches. i get  errors everyone.

if someone could compile me a win32 uisim for the h10(20GB) with these patches,
http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=46843

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If you get an error with each one, you have to wonder if you are doing something wrong...I would rather teach someone how to patch than just build them a build.

To double check:

Download the patch, copy/move it to the root of your rockbox source (in my case, inside rockbox-devel...the one that has the folders like apps, firmware, tools, etc), then patch the source with
--- Code: ---patch --binary -p0 < patchenamehere.patch
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Unfortunately, the site is being slow atm so I can't double check that they actually are bad.

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