kkurbjun,

since the last few subversion I get always "Codec failure".
I don't know, if you still work on rockbox, but please:
fix this

j00ker,
I just fixed the problem so codecs and plugins should be working in the latest build. Offhand I am not sure if the fix made it into the daily build for today so you may have to wait a day.

jamelikat,
You can setup the M:Robe to run both Rockbox and Linux. You need two remix cubes. You need to place the appropriate SVG (Rockbox or Linux) in the remix cube folder you want to use for the OS. In my case I have one cube setup with the Rockbox SVG loader and one cube setup with the Linux SVG loader.

Thanks for the encouragement guys. I have not had much time lately to work on Rockbox. There have been some things I've been messing with but have not made it into Rockbox SVN including the following:

• Faster boosted clock while providing lower power resulting in ~10% decrease in power consumption. It works for me, but additional checks are needed since not all of the TI SOCs are capable of this feature. The faster boosted clock also speeds up full screen video from around 15 fps to about 24 fps.
• Unrelated to Rockbox: Faster Linux. Cat's linloader was leaving the clock setup from the Olympus firmware so the processor was running more than 2x slower than it needed. I tested this a while ago and it cut the Linux boot time in half.
• There have been some other optimizations to the LCD code, some have made it in and others have not yet. These help reduce power consumption and improve video playback.

When I get a chance to finalize those pieces I'll add them to SVN.

>>>>jamelikat,
You can setup the M:Robe to run both Rockbox and Linux. You need two remix cubes.

thks for clearing that up kkurbjun.

kkurbjun,

thanks for the fix.
It's great to have the sound back

Unfortunately your theme isn't working with the courrent build.
I will try to make my own, but I need a reference

the new additions sound awesome kkurbjun, however until j00ker give the all clear I am not sure about upgrading (I really like your theme and also my music)

@j00ker, there is a good guide at the rockbox wiki, using that and just going through code from currently available themes gets you all the knowledge you need. First design something and then go about it. I Think you will be fine making a great theme, mine is never going to see the light of day due to troubleshooting but maybe if I have time I might start over with a new theme.

chansthename,

well, the sound is 100% back.
The mainproblem is the SkinBreakingChange, so kkurbjuns theme doesn't work with the new syntax.

I've skined already a nice&simple theme, but it is still buggy (the hole "CustomWPS"-thing is quite complex).
I still don't unterstand some things

I just updated my theme for the new syntax and it is on the Rockbox website so using the latest builds should be fine. When I updated the theme I improved the remote support so you can now browse menus with the remote.

As a note: The theme no longer sets the touchscreen mode so you will have to manually change it from grid to point if you would like to take advantage of the buttons.

J00ker,

I would love to see another theme other than my own make it to the site! I hope you are able to work out the details.

yay, updating now. thanks a lot kkurbjun and j00ker

EDIT: kkurbjun, what is the %Vi for and why do you have

%Vi(-,0,0,640,480,1)

I am wondering shouldn't it be
%Vi(x,y,width,height,font)

Also in your song info section, you have written
%V,20,17,325,10,0)

not sure if the comma is intentional or not (but I think it shouldn't be there). You did it twice but not once for the next song info.

chansthename,

You are right, my use of commas instead of parentheses is incorrect - it was a find/replace mistake on my part. Currently the code accepts them, but it will fail later. I am going to update the theme to correct them. Thanks for noticing it.

The %Vi tag in the WPS is to set the user input area. Generally it is used to set how the menus will be displayed (x,y position with width and height). I should not have to do this, but the WPS screen is honoring that UI area for the touchscreen so it causes buttons that are outside the area defined in the SBS not to work if that %Vi tag is not in the WPS.

For now I would recommend placing the tag I used as is "%Vi(-,0,0,640,480,1)" in the WPS of any theme created for the M-Robe 500.

I used the syntax I did because of the SkinBreakingChange that j00ker linked earlier. The syntax of some of the tags have changed and with %Vi some form of a label is now required.

thanks for the reply,

I have a theme in the final stages (got the kinks sorted out this time)

I am uploading a copy here and I hope you don't mind me using your theme as a basis for most of my code (your sbs is almost unaltered).

I have a few problems. the main is that whenever either fastforward or rewind is used the player freezes up and has to be shutdown. fastforward actually rewinds the song as does rewind.

I can't see much wrong with the code regarding both functions.

and later

kkurbjun,

it's strange, but the hotkey-support seems to be lost in the current svn.
It is a pity because over the hotkey you can integrate pictureflow ...

(Unfortunately the pictureflow is still quite slow
Are there maybe any inprovements in the future?)

The FFWD and RWD problems you guys were seeing were fixed by Jonathan Gordon this last weekend. The problem was just a bug in the code. He also added in the ability to put buttons in the SBS so you can have music control on any screen. I haven't tried the feature yet, but I think it can add a lot to the themes.

chansthename,

I like your theme. I don't mind that it is based off mine at all - that's the spirit of the CC-BY-SA license. The buttons should work properly now. The only critique I have would be to fix the buttons so that the pink border isn't there unless that was intentional.

j00ker,

I haven't tried the hotkey support for pictureflow, but if it's still broken it would be good to get a bug filed in the tracker.

Lol at the buttons, It was not intentional at first but I tried editing it out but it ended up not pretty. I will have another attempt sometime soon (or even change the buttons over to something else)

The other problem that I had was a slow updating volume. the volume Icon has two halfs for controlling volume up and down (this will be changed with a plus and minus button very soon as I have discovered there is not enough room) but the problem is the volume only updates at song changes.

WRT the buttons on the sbs, that can be done much later once I have done this and uploaded it to the themes site.

EDIT:

I have spent a bit of time trying to remove the pink edges, I have different buttons now and have spent a bit of time tring to manually remove the colouring from the edges (at 1200% zoom)

it is still not nice and took a lot of time for the one button that I have been playing with.

Does anyone have any advice how to get rid of the pink edges? (I have played around with sharpen etc, to no avail)

forgot to mention, the buttons are 100x100 pixels being converted from a size of 447x447. they are in a psd file type with a transparent background to begin with.

Thanks

Hey congratulations on finishing your theme! It looks good. I need to fix mine again it seems...

-Karl

hey thanks karl, when I get more time I plan to make another (more adventurous one this time).

I still have the pink border which I would like to remove however have been unable. if you have any hints, please post them

Just a few very minor issues. firstly let me explain that I have new headphones (they are canalphones) now they are much more sensitive than my old pair and as a result I can hear a small buzzing in my left ear. I am not sure exactly what the problem is but I have been able to find that it doesn't happen in the olympus music mode and in rockbox without a remote. it only does it with the remote and rockbox running. I think it may be to do with the incomplete remote drivers (not saying fix it, just saying that it may be added to the to do list)

balance is also something that is not a 100%. rockbox has gives me a non-centred stereo (if you get what I mean). this does not happen from my PC but I need to do further testing before I can be conclusive.

anyway, good to hear from you.