New Red Moon theme - and some experiences

[AsusFreak!]

Hi .

Because of some requests I did a redesign of my Silver theme.
Download is in the H10 5/6 Gb WPS Skins thread.

I did some smaller changes like adding the total track time and removing the file type from the main play screen.

A little problem to solve was the play screen while pressing the hold button.
I enjoyed Angry's idea in his Lavenia theme of displaying more information while pressing hold. But therefor I wanted to remove the cover art image to have the space on my background image for displaying further information.
At last I solved this by displaying blank text lines between the information lines like genre, year or bandwidth. Otherwise there would be some ugly fragments of cover art on the screen.

Another phenomenon is the scrolling text line. My theme has three different text colors: white, black and orange. If you want to use scrolling text in the play screen you have to use the same text color as in the menu screen (configured in the *.cfg file of the themes folder). Otherwise you have e.g. a static text row in white and when the scrolling begins the text color changes to black - quite ugly.

Last experience I try to share with you is the amount of preloaded images. In my theme I have to limit my preloaded images for the file types. Otherwise the cover art image will not be displayed anymore. If you like to try it then remove the '#' in my file type definition section in the beginning of the wps file. Only one preload image more and you will lose the cover art - strange.

Because of getting known of these difficulties while designing my wps I ask myself if it's useful to have a new thread in here. If you're interested in a finer description of building a a wps like mine, I could do this line by line illustrating the thoughts while building this theme.

So two questions:

1. Please give some feedback on the red moon wps.
2. Would it be useful to have a wps building description thread?

Thanks for your responses.

AF

Images:
1. Play screen
2. No Cover Art/Hold Button pressed
3. Menu screen

[AsusFreak!]

Okay - no need.

[itsmeguys]

Ha, sorry, musta missed this somehow.
Looks very nice.

As to the "Would it be useful to have a wps building description thread?". Yes, it would

[Blak-Rider]

Its heaps cool. Im going to use it.

Now to fix my album art so its not pixelated on the wps with big album art.

[AsusFreak!]

I'm glad if you'll enjoy it.

I'm using 128x128 bmp and the quality in spite of resizing is still fine.

Greets
AF