UPDATED 21/11/05: I've changed the code to be compatible with the new wps standard which uses a subdirectory. unzip the files to your wps folder.
Here's something a bit different! I wanted to create somthing stylish, with only the essential information (for me), and with as little 'movement' as possible - so no scrolling or alternate lines.
The wps has 4 'Bubbles' showing:
1) Track name, Artist name
2) Track name for next track
3) Time elapsed/Time Remaining Track number/Total Tracks
4) Volume / Battery life
Requirements:
- A font with a height of 8 - I'm using Nedore-8
- Set the LCD to Inverse using General Settings | Display | LCD Settings | LCD Mode | Inverse
- Low contrast, so the 'off' pixels look truly off - I'm using 25
- Status bar off, though it isn't to hard to change the settings if you really want.
Notes:
- Looks really good when you've in the dark and just using the backlight
- Doesn't look so good when the artist/track name is over 25 characters
- Incompatible with scrolling due to the way rockbox currently draws the background
- I'd like to include some text to let the viewer know if 'Shuffle' mode is on, but there doesn't seem to be a tag for it, ony a tag for 'repeat shuffle'.
Please PM me with any feedback, i'd love to hear if people are using it or have any suggestions
