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    lilbud @EctoOne
    last edited by 1 Sept 2017, 14:03

    @ectoone

    1. What do you mean by the detailed view looks like it's not done
    2. I'll fix the Virtual Boy logo a bit later, I'm not home right now.

    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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      EctoOne @lilbud
      last edited by 1 Sept 2017, 14:37

      @lilbud It's totally messed up (at least on my windows build), no background, image in a weird location and kinda big, description has like a font size of 100 and appears in the bottom left corner. That is what I can remember. Besides fixing the problems, I had no time to look at the code. Also horizontal layout looked the same. Can't post a screen shot because I'm as well not home. :D

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        lilbud
        last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 04:27

        Check original post for theme info and download link

        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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          EctoOne
          last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 05:43

          Is video view suppose to look like this?
          alt text
          I mean was thinking about placing the video in a corner on top of the cover, instead of using marquees, at one point but this looks kinda wrong.

          Also, are you avoiding the option for a default theme when a system is missing on purpose or why is your main xml not named theme.xml?

          Aww, sadly the outlined selector you had in your preview is not in the final release. I was courious how you did that, because i really liked that.

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            lilbud @EctoOne
            last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 12:38

            @ectoone said in Minimal Theme:

            Is video view suppose to look like this?
            alt text
            I mean was thinking about placing the video in a corner on top of the cover, instead of using marquees, at one point but this looks kinda wrong.

            Also, are you avoiding the option for a default theme when a system is missing on purpose or why is your main xml not named theme.xml?

            Aww, sadly the outlined selector you had in your preview is not in the final release. I was courious how you did that, because i really liked that.

            The video is supposed to be in the same place as the video and the marquee is supposed to be under the gamelist. Not sure why that is not working.

            I'm not exactly sure on how to add a default theme

            I couldn't get the outlined selector to work for some reason.

            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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              EctoOne @lilbud
              last edited by EctoOne 9 Feb 2017, 13:54 2 Sept 2017, 12:49

              @lilbud I can take a look at the marquee thing tonight if you want.

              For the default theme to work, your main xml file just needs to be named theme.xml.
              So you just have to rename it and replace all the include paths in your system xmls.

              What did you tried for the selector? An image i guess, because that's what i just tried and worked. I just had to make the width very big to avoid an ugly stretching on the sides.

              Also the freeze bug seems to be fixed on my end with the latest windows version, but i just did a quick test, yet it feels way faster then before.

              Edit: I forgot to mention that the marquee is below the gamelist, which makes the gamelist very small on detailed view I find. It looks good on video view only the cover needs to be removed.

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                lilbud @EctoOne
                last edited by lilbud 9 Feb 2017, 14:13 2 Sept 2017, 12:56

                @ectoone I know for a fact that marquees work as I tested them last night.

                For the selector I tried an image that was an empty rectangle with an outline, it didn't work, so I just went to a normal one

                I'll add default system later today.

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                @EctoOne said

                I forgot to mention that the marquee is below the gamelist,

                That is how its supposed to be. In detailed view, the gamelist should take up the whole area, in video view, the marquee goes under that and pushes the gamelist up. It was the best way I found to have videos without them being the size of a postage stamp.

                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                  EctoOne @lilbud
                  last edited by EctoOne 9 Feb 2017, 14:41 2 Sept 2017, 13:40

                  @lilbud Oh I've misread that. Though the marquee was supposed to be overlapping the video, like on one of your mockups. Then the only two issues are, that the cover is behind the video and that the gamelist has the same size on detailed and video view.
                  And yeah, an image used as selector almost needs have the exact size because of the stretching behavior. I will take a look at the 9-patch tag later and if it could be used as selector.

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                    lilbud @EctoOne
                    last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 14:18

                    @ectoone This is what video view looks like for me
                    alt text

                    I also updated the theme with default system support, as well as stopping the image from showing during video playback.

                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                      stephan311280
                      last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 15:22

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                      I like this .....

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                        lilbud @stephan311280
                        last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 15:25

                        @stephan311280
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                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                          EctoOne
                          last edited by EctoOne 9 Feb 2017, 20:55 2 Sept 2017, 19:52

                          video view is still the same for me, with the cover behind the video. you have md_image defined in your theme.xml within the video section as well as in all 4 layouts files.
                          I've sent you a PR where i moved them to only appear in detailed view.

                          Oh, and the small gamelist on detailed view i mentioned before was on my end. for some reason i had the views set to video only, not automatic. although i can't remember doing that and for what purpose.

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                            lilbud @EctoOne
                            last edited by 2 Sept 2017, 20:10

                            @ectoone I accepted your PR and everything should work now.

                            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                              lilbud
                              last edited by 19 Sept 2017, 23:17

                              FFIX was released on ps4 today and to commemorate the release, Square-Enix released a ps4 theme. Here is the background for use as a wallpaper/background for the Minimal theme.

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                              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                lilbud
                                last edited by 17 Oct 2017, 21:57

                                Thinking of redesigning the theme, thoughts?

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                                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                  EctoOne @lilbud
                                  last edited by 17 Oct 2017, 22:20

                                  @lilbud I prefer the old layout. Because with having the cover that big, the new layout will have huge empty spaces when using square boxart and even more when using landscape boxart. Unless you're going to make different layouts for those.

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                                    lilbud @EctoOne
                                    last edited by 17 Oct 2017, 22:21

                                    @ectoone Oh yeah, there will be different views for square, landscape and portrait. This is only a mockup

                                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                      greekmanx @lilbud
                                      last edited by 17 Oct 2017, 22:30

                                      @lilbud mockup looks good would love to see what you come up with for a redesign

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                                        EctoOne @lilbud
                                        last edited by EctoOne 17 Oct 2017, 23:48

                                        @lilbud See, here's where I have the same problem like you mentioned in your other thread about all the different cover variations. I have the same problem with them, that's why I was so happy about the Mix images that Universal XML Scraper can create. I've modified the 3 image mix profile to use only 2D covers and to create a square image.
                                        If I would use your theme, I would get unnecessary layout changes while scrolling through the systems.
                                        I would love to use normal boxart only but only if it would be possible to also have a screenshot and the marquee as available elements (without having to use videoview). Sadly we don't have that option (yet). That's why I will keep my mix images for now.
                                        Well, I might be part of a small group that uses mix images as boxart, so you will probably have not to worry about getting many comments on that. And if I would use your theme, I would at least know how to fix it for myself.

                                        I have one question tho. You have to keep the multiple system folders to have different layouts per system right? Or is that possible with variables? I have not worked on themes for quite a while now. Since I am still waiting on some things to be implemented some time ago.

                                        Anyway, the new layout doesn't gives me that minimal feeling that the original does.

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                                          lilbud @EctoOne
                                          last edited by 17 Oct 2017, 23:54

                                          @ectoone What you'd have to do would be remove the other layout files and only keep the square_layout.xml and replace all instances to horizontal to square.

                                          @EctoOne said

                                          I have one question tho. You have to keep the multiple system folders to have different layouts per system right? Or is that possible with variables? I have not worked on themes for quite a while now. Since I am still waiting on some things to be implemented some time ago.

                                          If you look at my Switch Theme. I updated it to support variables and simplified it. Can't do it with this theme cause it needs multiple layouts.

                                          @EctoOne said

                                          Anyway, the new layout doesn't gives me that minimal feeling that the original does.

                                          Thats why it's a mockup. I'm trying to redesign it so I can use only one layout for all box art.

                                          Also, different strokes for different folks.

                                          Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                          Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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