loadable iconsets

[JdGordon]

Hey all,

Ive mostly finished a patch which will hopefully go in early next week which will allow you to change the icons in the lists without needing to recompile (Which I doubt anyone ever did anyway seen as how hard it was to change the icons...)

so... FS 7013 is the patch, as well as a bmp with the default icons which will give you some idea of what the iconset bmp should look like.
basically, create your bmp 32*X wide and Y high where X is the number of pixels wide each icon is, and Y is the height of each pixel (both have a max of 24)
(The 32 comes from the number of icons you can theme in the code in app/gui/icon.h)

now, as I said, the patch isnt complete, so the only way to change the icon set is to edit config.cfg and add the line
iconset: /.rockbox/icons/.bmp

[JdGordon]

hmm... I was expecting a bit more excitement over this :p
anyway new patch is online, the viewer icons are at the end of the bmp and its now vertical

[David Marsh]

I have to admit, I'm not sure what this all means.

[JdGordon]

all the little icons used in the lists... this lets you change them without recompiling.
also allows the icons to be any size up to 24x24 and full 16bit colour

[Lear]

Neat. The default icons can be a bit small on some screens, so this is nice. On my H140 it isn't too bad, but I imagine it is worse on an iPod video using something like nimbus-19.

Then there's the status bar...  

[JdGordon]

status bar is next on the list, but will probably wait till viewports...

[iPodFoo]

hmm... I was expecting a bit more excitement over this :p

Dont worry! Just needs to be tested and played around with first! I welcome any extra customisability for rockbox especially in the graphical areas.  

[|2eM!x]

Awesome idea.  Can this be utilized by themes?  I.E. will it allow every theme a different icon set?

[JdGordon]

yes

[|2eM!x]

Okay well thats just plain awesome then.

[ColdSphinx]

There seems to be an problem when I'm loading an iconset with these lines:

Code: [Select]

iconset: /.rockbox/icons/cold_default-white_icons.6x8x16.bmp
icon height: 8
remote iconset: /.rockbox/icons/cold_remote_default_icons.6x8x2.bmp
remote icon height: 8

With out, there is no failure:


On my "default-white" iconset I yust changed the black icons to white becaus I've set my fontcolor to white.
default_icons
default-white_icons
remote_default_icons

[Llorean]

If your icons are 1bpp "black" should match the font color, and white should be transparent.

If they're more, the color 255,0,255 will be transparent, and colors will be colors. (Assuming everything is working right).

[ColdSphinx]

I testet a bit and  if i load the "remote iconset" after the "iconset" then the remoteset overrites my iconset. Also if I load an external iconset I lost most of the icons in the menues.

[Hweb21]

I like the idea, great job  

[ColdSphinx]

currently everything works fine, exept if I've first a line to load an iconset folowed by a line to load an remoteiconset in a config, the remoteiconset replaces the iconset. I think this could fixed by rename the settingname for the remoteiconset!?