Any plans for a "slider" progress bar?

[akadewboy]

I think it would be really nice to have a "slider" type progress bar. It could be a single image that travels from one side of the screen to the other, rather than one long image that slowly reveals itself (in that one patch, not sure what it's called). Are there any plans for Rockbox to use this type of progress bar?

[NicolasP]

Done !
See FS#6505.

[iPodFoo]

Could this work with the FS#4783 patch (progressbar_ycoord_extension2.1_20070103.patch)?

Would be very useful for pixel perfect tweaking.  

[NicolasP]

I rewrote the y-coord patch, see the tracker entry : FS#4783

[akadewboy]

Thanks a bunch NicolasP! Now I can't wait to use it in my WPS.

[iPodFoo]

Works well!

One thing though. Is it possible to keep the old progress graphic bar, so it still reveals a change in colour?

See pic for eg:

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[NicolasP]

I had thought of it, but it's not as trivial to implement as a simple slider and I didn't have time to think about it. Maybe I'll try, but later.

[Job Van Dam]

Just wanted to give you kudos Nicolas for a no-brainer plugin.

Straight up and down this should have been in Rockbox from the word go. Awesome, awesome stuff. Thank you.

[Febs]

Straight up and down this should have been in Rockbox from the word go.

Yeah, you're right.  The misguided Rockbox developers focused on silly things like audio playback and stability instead of this critical bit of useless eye candy.

 

[DanManners]

Straight up and down this should have been in Rockbox from the word go.

Yeah, you're right.  The misguided Rockbox developers focused on silly things like audio playback and stability instead of this critical bit of useless eye candy.

 

I agree. The developers should have focused on Eye candy more than audio playback xD

-Dan

[Job Van Dam]

Yeah, you're right.  The misguided Rockbox developers focused on silly things like audio playback and stability instead of this critical bit of useless eye candy.

 

Woah, woah. Take it easy. Put down the baby and step away from the ledge.

I never said audio playback and stability are "silly things". I just really dig this plugin.

[Febs]

You missed my point entirely.  

[DanManners]

BACK ON TOPIC *clears throat*

No, but seriously, so this patch works on all of the targets? All the iPod, iRivers, gigabeat, archos, iAudio, etc? I mean, This would be a VERY helpful patch in normal everyday builds. You could really have some fun with making themes with a "sliding" progress bar? ANd has anyone found any glitches with it if they've used it? Ya, I'm not QUITE expecting a lot of answers, but anyone?

-Dan

[iPodFoo]

Works fine on the iPod Nano. I have it included in my build. I dont have a theme to make use of it yet as I havent had time to make one lately.

And yes, the more design flexibility all the better I say. (as long as it doesnt detract from getting the playback/stability issues sorted!)

[NicolasP]

Yes, normally it should work fine on any target with a bitmap display. Please report any glitches you notice