first timer WPS help

[mipodr]

I thought I had this... but no!

Ok, I'm making a wps where the playlist position (ex: 2/8) is on the same line as the album... But when I have it so "the out of" is 2 or more digits (ex: 2/12) then the album comes out 1 extra space to the right... How do I fix this?

[akadewboy]

I'm having trouble visualizing what you need. Maybe post your code or a screenshot?

[mipodr]

Kinda see it now? When that says for example 2/10 rather than 1/2 the album name gets pushed over one.

Here's the mess of a wps i made... (the two random slashes are invisible over big folder lol. but nescessary to keep things even)

%X|bg.bmp|                    
%P|pb.bmp|37|109|
%wd
%ar| %bl%%| %bt| %pv|%cl:Mc


         
   
                           
 
 
    /                      %?ia<%ia|%d2>
             %pp/%pe         %?id<%id|%d1>
  /                          %?it<%it|%fn>
%pb|20|114|256|
                            %fc                      %pc  / %pt



             
                            ... %?It<%It|%Fn>

[akadewboy]

Hmm, I think the only way you'd be able to do that is with the FS#5900 — Custom WPS Line with x/y/width coordinates patch.

The code would look something like this:
%e|54|110|50|1|FFFFFF|%al%pp/%pe
%e|111|110|210|1|FFFFFF|%al%id

Trying to put two things on one line when their string length isn't always the same can be really anoying without the 5900 patch. That patch allows you to place them at exact pixels. You might want to find an Unsupported Build that has that patch in it.

[mipodr]

Ok thanks... lol but now i have to figure out some more stuff.
Are you saying that the positioning with that will be right... cuz if thats true then I'm impressed.
Hmm. That's gonna cause some annoyances though, because I don't have a simulator for that patch... Just rasher's. Phew, this might take a while.

[akadewboy]

The coordinates should be pretty close, they might be a few pixels off depending on how your font behaves. I just took your screenshot and opened it up in paint to find the coordinates.

[Job Van Dam]

The way I would fix that problem is use align center and align left.

Example:
%ac%pp/%pe               %al%?id<%id|%d1>

Like this the length of one won't affect the other. Only crap thing is they both can't be aligned to the left though.

[Yotto]

It would change the look, but you could also align the nubmers left and *all* the words right.

Or, align the words as you do, but a bit more left, and put the (#/#) on the right side instead of the left.

[mipodr]

Ehh, so there's really no way of changing it without changing the look... One thing I tried and thought would work would be to align the numbers to the right and space it to where it was and the the opposite for the text but the numbers wouldn't show.

But i can do this with jbuild and now I'm happy. Thanks for all your help.

Umm, where do I actually put that wps line you gave me, I jsut put it at the top, and everything was out of sync exept for the 2/14.

[soap]

Could you edit/create a font to make all the numbers the same width?

[Yotto]

That won't work.  I've butted against this problem before as well.  The problem isn't that, for example, "1" is skinnier than "2".  It's that "5" is skinnier than "46"

[GodEater]

But 05 would be the same width as 46 if you use a fixed width font.

[pixelma]

But 05 would be the same width as 46 if you use a fixed width font.

And... how would you do that in Rockbox?
Currently there is no way to pad these numbers with leading zeros - unless I missed something important...

[Llorean]

Maybe the point is that there *should* be a way.

[Yotto]

I'm not arguing that.  There should.

There should also be an if/then construct, and maybe a loop.  But there isn't and I don't expect anybody to come up with one any time soon.