FS#5002 - Packaged WPS Plugin
Opened by Matt Bridge (sharpe) - Sunday, 02 April 2006, 17:35 GMT
Last edited by Jonathan Gordon (jdgordon) - Saturday, 04 August 2007, 10:00 GMT
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DetailsUses uncompressed zip files, renamed as a .wpz file.
Should have the wps in the root of the zip, and the bitmaps for the wps in their respective folder. For example, if the wps is named 'DancePuffDuo.wps' then the bitmaps should be in the folder 'DancePuffDuo' in the zip. Only tested so far on Ipod 5G, but it should work with all others. Doesn't include remove wpses as of yet. Without a patch to the doom source, it conflicts with Doom's compilation due to the inclusion of "gwps.h" in "patch.h" The patch to the prboom source just changes all references of the variable 'screens[]' to 'dscreens[]' which seems to compile correctly. |
Saturday, 04 August 2007, 10:00 GMT
Reason for closing: Rejected
lumped into one file (the .wpz) which is extracted into
a temp directory and applied, and is set as the wps in the
global settings... and the temp directory only changes when
another .wpz is chosen.
Tis used like any other viewer plugin.
the planned .tar usage... as the tar format has a 512 byte header
which most of it is zeroed out to fit 512 bytes, and then the file
is padded to the next 512 bytes. So it has some advantage over what's
planned in terms of space usage.
Yes, I know it takes longer to load a wps with it.
And the reason we mentioned tar was becuase it is a simple format for which "everyone" already has a tool for. If uncompressed zip is as simple, it might be a good idea as well.
Then again, uncompressed Zip is similar... I believe Windows makes compressed Zipfiles from the explorer interface, and WinRar and WinZip have options for no compression. IMO, the choice should be whichever turns out to be easier for the average newb.
All Rockbox developers who'd create a rockbox.zip file (which then preferably automatically would produce and use these all-images-in-one-file blobs) already have both tar and zip installed.