From: Magnus Holmgren <lear_at_algonet.se>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:47:51 +0200

Justin Heiner wrote:
 
> The Custom WPS still has work that needs to be done with it. My reasoning
> behind having it enabled 100% now is that other people other than me will do
> updating on it hopefully (brainstorming with Bagder and others for that idea).

OK, I've just created a patch for wps-display.c, rewriting most of the
formatting code. I've added the MAD-style custom formatting, a few more
% commands and fixed the bug that wps.config wasn't always reloaded (I
think; I noticed the bug, but I haven't verified that the change works
as intended ;).

While I didn't copy the MAD code (which is GPL:ed), it did serve as an
important reference, and the implementation I've made uses pretty much
the same algorithm. So I added a comment about that, but I'm not sure
what is "proper" to do in a case like this.

The %-commands remain mostly the same. Some have been added, and a few
have been removed:

%% - Display a '%'
%< - Display a '<'
%| - Display a '|'
%> - Display a '>'
%s - Indicate that the line should scroll. Can occur anywhere in
          a line (given that the text is displayed; see conditional
          below). Only the first line with a %s will actually scroll.
          %s is ignored if combined with %pb, %pc or %pr on the same
          line (the result wouldn't be good anyway).
%?xx<|> - Conditional: if the tag specified by "xx" has a value, the
          text between the "<" and the "|" is displayed, else the text
          between the "|" and the ">" is displayed.
          The else part is optional, so the "|" does not have to be
          specified if no else part is desired. The conditionals nest,
          so the text in the if and else part can contain all %
          commands, including conditionals.
%ia - ID3 artist.
%id - ID3 disc/album.
&in - ID3 track number.
%it - ID3 track title.
%fb - Bit rate (in kbps).
%ff - Frequency (in Hz).
%fm - File name (with extension).
%fn - File name (without extension).
%fp - File path.
%fs - Fize size (in kB).
%pb - Progress bar char (Player only).
%pc - Current time in song.
%pe - Number of entries in playlist.
%pp - Position in playlist.
%pr - Remaining time in song.
%d1 - First directory from end of file path.
%d2 - Second directory from end of file path.
%d2 - Third directory from end of file path.

%fc and %fd are gone. They can mostly be emulated using %?<>. The
additional %-commands makes it possible to handle all WPS modes using
the format string.

Example for the the %dn commands: If the path is "/Rock/Kent/Isola/11 -
747.mp3", %d1 is "Isola", %d2 is "Kent"... You get the picture.

A more complex example (and the wps.config I use now):

%s%?in<%in - >%?it<%it|%fn> %?ia<[%ia%?id<, %id>]>
%pb%pc/%pt

That is, "tracknum - title [artist, album]", where most fields are only
displayed if available. Could also be rendered as "filename" or
"tracknum - title [artist]".

I think I've changed the semantics of wps_display/wps_refresh
slightly... wps_display now makes a full render of the display (so a
call to wps_refresh is not needed afterwards). When refresh_all in
wps_refresh is false, it only updates those lines that contains fields
that can change over time, such as play time. If refresh_all is true,
the entire display is rendered, including the scrolling line. wps.c
might need updates because of that, but it seems to work fine as it
is... :)

Note that I've only tested this on a player so far; I've no idea how
well it works on a recorder (at least it compiles). On recorders, it
needs to be able to handle fonts of different height in a better way (by
calculating the number that fits, depending on status bars, fonts,
etc.).

> We've currently got only 64 characters per line on the Custom WPS, so whatever
> commands are implented should be kept short and sweet.

I've removed that limitation. The format itself must (currently) fit
within 300 bytes. Formatting of a single line is done to a 256-byte
buffer (MAX_PATH actually), but that is of course only useful for the
scrolling line.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren

Received on 2002-08-31