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Subject: Re: WPS

Re: WPS

From: gl <gl_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:32:13 -0000

Here's a work-in-progress shot of the design (mocked up in Photoshop):
http://rockbox.gl.tter.org/gl.tterWPS1.jpg

Line positioning is important for the look. I'm not using different font
sizes yet, but ideally the track name should be larger as it's the most
important info.
--
gl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gl" <gl_at_ntlworld.com>
To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: WPS
>
> I just started designing an iRiver H1x0 playback screen without knowing 
> about the WPS limitations.  Now that I've read up on the script commands I 
> find there's a few things that can't be done.
>
> Are there any plans to:
>
> 1) allow per-pixel positioning of lines on displays that support it?
> 2) implement 4bit bitmap support?
>
> I've done a lot of graphics works, so if the limitations are just down to 
> writing compatible blitters etc, I can add those - but are there more 
> fundamental problems in supporting these?
>
> I'd also like to use different sized fonts (as was mentioned recently), 
> and also font 'inversion' (white chars on black backgrounds) for 
> highlights.
>
> In general, are there any problems with me extending WPS or is the feature 
> set frozen for now?
> --
> gl 
Received on 2006-02-23

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