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320x240 New WPS Works in Progress
knight4led:
This first one I am calling Cobalt and it is inspired by the UI on an old beat up Samsung flash player, but I made all the graphics myself in photoshop. It works fine right now, but I am not releasing it yet because I want to add some more info about the tracks just under the track name and I want to make that next song at the bottom alternate artist and track name.
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I am calling this second one Pinstripe and it is inspired by the combination of Senab's Black Glass theme and the background which I found on Deviantart. With this one I want to see if I can figure out a way to make a WPS that completely changes depending on whether album art is present. I am toying with ideas for it currently.
Please leave any comments or ideas you have for either WPS.
Also I am working on these the old fashioned way (constantly plugging/unplugging my player) because I can't seem to build a UiSim on my Mac. JustJohnny has been a phenomenal help so far, but it still isn't making. If anyone can offer further support I would be very grateful.
lights0ut:
Those look sweet, knight4led. I really like the unique approaches you've taken with the backgrounds (especially the pinstripe). If you're running a mac that can do windows I can give you a link to a sim I've built for the 5G that has the Album Art and Scrolling Margins patches applied to it (I'm on windows by the way). Anyway good luck with that (I HATED doing WPS without a sim).
A few comments on your work: You could align the volume and battery meters with the time on top,
about that does this alternate between the date etc (because there is enough space for it) Maybe you could add buttons for shuffle, repeat etc. in the box with the play button. Is the text under the progress bar for the next song? If it is maybe put something like Next up: or Coming Next: followed by Artist, Title, Album that alternates. Last maybe add a spot for genre in with the song info, and a different font than nimbus would be nice as a lot of WPS use this font.
I can't say much about the pinstripe as it looks like you've just started, but that is a wicked idea about an entirely different WPS being displayed depending on Album Art or not. Maybe a progress bar different from the one from black glass would be better though.
Well, there's my opinions, I hope that's enough feedback for you, good luck with these(and getting a sim), I'm interested to see how they turn out, very nice WPS's ;)
knight4led:
In Cobalt that box up top with the play indicator does have shuffle and repeat icons when they are enabled, I just forgot to turn them on for the screen-dump. I like the idea about alternating the line with the time, I was planning on putting the date in the line above until now. Right now if the sleep function is turned on it shows a little indicator with some zz's and the time remaining. The very bottom line is in fact the upcoming song and I plan to make that alternate. The reason I don't have any alternating lines right now is I have to figure out the syntax for embedding alternating lines within conditionals, and since I mostly get to work on these things in the evening, sometimes it makes my brain hurt, but I don't have internet access at those hours.
You are very right about Pinstripe being in the very early stages, but I am a little iffy about carrying through that idea until I have a Simulator working with Album Art and Scrolling Margins.
I can compile a Sim from a pure SVN build right now, but I don't know what versions of the patches will work with the SVN and the patch versions I've tried failed. I tried downloading archived source from the last date the patches compiled, but they won't make, it seems like there are files missing. I am thinking about downloading from SVN then overwriting that folder with an older source, which would leave any file that SVN had that the archive didn't. I figure its worth a try.
lachlan:
I don't really like Cobalt, but Pinstripe is looking absolutely great so far.
lights0ut:
--- Quote from: knight4led on February 21, 2007, 02:05:31 PM ---You are very right about Pinstripe being in the very early stages, but I am a little iffy about carrying through that idea until I have a Simulator working with Album Art and Scrolling Margins.
I can compile a Sim from a pure SVN build right now, but I don't know what versions of the patches will work with the SVN and the patch versions I've tried failed. I tried downloading archived source from the last date the patches compiled, but they won't make, it seems like there are files missing. I am thinking about downloading from SVN then overwriting that folder with an older source, which would leave any file that SVN had that the archive didn't. I figure its worth a try.
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with regards to what versions of which stuff to use, SVN from Feb 15 works with the latest Album Art and Scrolling Margins patches (I'm sure that's all you'll need)
P.S. if you don't know how to check out old svn you need to type this:
svn co svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk -r {2007-02-15} 0215
(this will put the source code from Feb 15 into a folder called 0215)
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