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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: New tag %ft grab a line of text from a file

« Last post by Dook on December 05, 2024, 03:09:22 PM »

This seems like a really exciting addition to the theme spec, looking forward to trying it out soon. Immediately I'm thinking about the possibility of using a text file as a theme-specific config file that users can edit, possibly helping to eliminate the amount of variants required for themes.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: New tag %ft grab a line of text from a file

« Last post by iPodVT on December 05, 2024, 12:54:53 AM »

Work in progress
%ft(filename, line)
https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/6143

Get a line of text from a file and display it in the wps

Comments welcome

It works perfectly for me on both ipod6g and ipodvideo, for everything I tried.  I made a four line text file, and tested it for each line.  I also tried some out of bounds line numbers and they produced an empty string (at least apparently - nothing was displayed from the calls with those bad line numbers).  I also tried with and without a newline/CR for the last line and it worked properly both with and without.  I guessed that the line numbers would be zero-based and that proved to be the case.  I didn't do extensive stress testing, e.g. very long lines of text.  Please let me know of any specific such testing you'd like me to try.

I hope others will find this useful.  Although the 'player name' config setting fulfilled my need/desire to be able to cache a displayable unique name for each individual device, this text file implementation is better because now instead of having to hard code a unique config setting for each player, they can all share the same generic config file and just have their own unique text file of line delimited data, which is much easier to maintain.

Thanks very much for providing this great new feature.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Bones Theme

« Last post by tizxv22 on December 04, 2024, 08:15:08 PM »

Hi, I have a HiFi Walker v1.9 that I installed Rockbox with natively. I downloaded the Bones theme and unzipped the files correctly. When I load the theme, layout is changed, but fonts are not, and no icons show up.

I noticed that there is only a single font size (47) and no icons are included. Am I missing something?

Did you download the required font pack?

https://download.rockbox.org/daily/fonts/rockbox-fonts-20241204.zip

Wow that worked perfectly! I must've missed a set of instructions somewhere... Is there a page of basic setup after getting rockbox installed?

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Bones Theme

« Last post by chris_s on December 04, 2024, 07:35:17 PM »

Hi, I have a HiFi Walker v1.9 that I installed Rockbox with natively. I downloaded the Bones theme and unzipped the files correctly. When I load the theme, layout is changed, but fonts are not, and no icons show up.

I noticed that there is only a single font size (47) and no icons are included. Am I missing something?

Did you download the required font pack?

https://download.rockbox.org/daily/fonts/rockbox-fonts-20241204.zip

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Bones Theme

« Last post by tizxv22 on December 04, 2024, 07:16:06 PM »

Hi, I have a HiFi Walker v1.9 that I installed Rockbox with natively. I downloaded the Bones theme and unzipped the files correctly. When I load the theme, layout is changed, but fonts are not, and no icons show up.

I noticed that there is only a single font size (47) and no icons are included. Am I missing something?

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / *PANIC* Updating on empty dir entry 125

« Last post by Psychotronics on December 04, 2024, 04:40:14 PM »

I have an iPod 6th Gen using iFlash Dual and running Rockbox. This combination is quite finnicky, it frequently bugs and forces me to do a fresh install.
This time, I'm running into trouble when commiting the database. Here's the error message:

*PANIC*
Updating on empty dir entry 125
pc: 08074668
sp: 080ed48b
A: 08064890
A: 0806491c
A: 08064e48
A: 0804b514
A: 0804c850
A: 0804d158
A: 0804d3ac
bt end

Thankfully, it was an easy fix. This post is here in case anyone else runs into this issue.
When I did a clean install on my iPod, I made a backup of the .rockbox folder. I just connected the iPod to the computer and overwrote it using the backup. Hope this helps someone else!

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Recent dev build breaks my theme(?)

« Last post by iPodVT on December 04, 2024, 02:45:39 PM »

I compiled two builds for you:
ipod6g
ipodvideo

Thanks so much for making those two builds for me.  Tonight I hope to try out their new patch for accessing text files and will post my feedback as soon as I do.

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Hardware / Re: AIGO EROS Q / AIGO EROS K / IRULU Surfans F20 / AGPTek H3 / HIFI WALKER H2

« Last post by dconrad on December 04, 2024, 01:06:16 PM »

Not sure if anybody's mentioned this yet, but I recently managed to install the native port on a Hifi Walker H2 v2.0 using the hw4 bootloader. Seems like nothing important's changed since v1.9.

I've also emailed the manufacturer asking for an upgrade package. Will report back if they get back to me.

Hi, I'm just now getting into rockbox. I have a Hifi Walker H2 v1.9 -- from what I'm reading and finding, does this mean I can follow instructions for Surfans F20 v3.4 since both run on hw4? If I have to use the google drive that's linked, what are some search terms I can look up to correctly get this running on my walker?

Thanks!

Yes, as far as we know Hifiwalker H2 v1.9 is a hardware 4 device, just like Surfans F20 v3.4. You can follow the "update files" installation instructions from the wiki to do the installation. Everything you need should be described there - format the SD card, then put the update file and rockbox installation on the card and run the updater on the device.

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Hardware / Re: AIGO EROS Q / AIGO EROS K / IRULU Surfans F20 / AGPTek H3 / HIFI WALKER H2

« Last post by tizxv22 on December 04, 2024, 12:33:28 PM »

Not sure if anybody's mentioned this yet, but I recently managed to install the native port on a Hifi Walker H2 v2.0 using the hw4 bootloader. Seems like nothing important's changed since v1.9.

I've also emailed the manufacturer asking for an upgrade package. Will report back if they get back to me.

Hi, I'm just now getting into rockbox. I have a Hifi Walker H2 v1.9 -- from what I'm reading and finding, does this mean I can follow instructions for Surfans F20 v3.4 since both run on hw4? If I have to use the google drive that's linked, what are some search terms I can look up to correctly get this running on my walker?

Thanks!

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Hardware / Re: Potentially Bricked iPod

« Last post by dashlix on December 04, 2024, 10:50:17 AM »

Hi all,

Ok, after typing the last two replies...I had an idea. I have a 2015 27" iMac packed away and decided to see if I could restore the software using that. I plugged it in and it detected it straightaway. It then said it had to prep a restore so i selected that. Afterwards, it asked me if I wanted to recover it and I clicked recover/ok. It gave a 1434 error, but when I looked at the iPod, it showed the original firmware connected-to-pc screen. I disconnected and reconnected it, and clicked on recover again and it worked! It formatted the iPod and loaded the original firmware and is working excellently.

Thanks for the quick responses, and even though the solution was not quite along the original lines, I hope others who are in the same predicament come here and see this and can resolve it using a Mac.

Regards
Dash