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    • ParviglumisP
      Parviglumis @hiulit
      last edited by

      @hiulit

      Yes, I did use them as an initial splashscreen. But that is an awesome idea! All of you are wizards.

      Please feel free to take this in any direction you want (not like you needed my permission lol). But I am really happy with all the new ideas! Sorry that I am totally useless when it comes to coding.

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        detron
        last edited by

        I also think this is really cool.

        the images would be amazing, but even if it is only used on the command line through forture | cowsay it would still be cool

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        • hiulitH
          hiulit
          last edited by

          I just wanted to let you know that I've started working on this project.

          I'll keep you updated ;)

          P.S. Looking good!
          0_1510156218247_Captura de pantalla 2017-11-08 a les 16.49.26.png
          P.P.S. @meleu When using convert, it takes a lot of time. I'm working on a Virtual Machine. Maybe it's that. I don't know. Here's a snippet of what I'm doing:

          convert splash4-3.png \
              -size 1000x100 \
              -interline-spacing 5 \
              -background transparent \
              -fill white \
              -caption:"${fun_facts[$random_number]}" \
              -gravity south \
              -geometry +0+25 \
              -composite \
              result.png
          

          And here's what time outputs:

          real 0m7.172s
          user 0m6.300s
          sys  0m0.656s
          

          My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

          • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
          • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
          • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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          • hiulitH
            hiulit
            last edited by

            BTW, if anyone wants to tinker, here's the GitHub's repo https://github.com/hiulit/es-fun-facts-splashscreens

            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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            • meleuM
              meleu @hiulit
              last edited by

              @hiulit hey man! Well done!! ;-)

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              • hiulitH
                hiulit @meleu
                last edited by

                @meleu Thanks! :D It's super basic now, but it seems to be working. Now it's time to take a look at your generate-launching-imagesscript and improve mine ;)

                My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                • meleuM
                  meleu @hiulit
                  last edited by

                  @hiulit I'm glad to know it can inspire you. I usually spend sometime making my code readable just to help others to understand it (including @meleu in the future). Knowing that you're reading it and getting some inspiration makes me feel like the work was worth it. :D

                  Let me know if you have any doubt!

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                  • meleuM
                    meleu @hiulit
                    last edited by meleu

                    @hiulit a small tip: if you want to store fun facts in a text file, one fun fact per line, you can get a random line from the file using the shuf command. This way:

                    shuf -n 1 fun_facts.txt
                    

                    EDIT: This aproach would be useful if the users want to customize their fun facts. They wouldn't need to edit the script's code.

                    ;-)

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                    • hiulitH
                      hiulit @meleu
                      last edited by

                      @meleu Thanks for the tip! I'll try it! :)

                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                      • hiulitH
                        hiulit @meleu
                        last edited by

                        @meleu Done! It works beautifully :D

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                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                        • Z
                          Zigurana
                          last edited by

                          If it takes too long, maybe run the image-generation-script on system shutdown, to be used at next boot-time?

                          If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.

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                          • meleuM
                            meleu @Zigurana
                            last edited by

                            @zigurana good idea! ;-)

                            @hiulit I have more comments, maybe it's better to move the nerdy conversation to the nerdy topic... :)

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                            • hiulitH
                              hiulit @Zigurana
                              last edited by

                              @zigurana Yeah, good idea! Although I really don't have any idea of where I should put my script to do that... (⊙_☉) hehe! Noob at scripting here :P

                              My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                              • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                              • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                              • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                              • hiulitH
                                hiulit
                                last edited by hiulit

                                More progress! :D
                                Now the splashscreen is created using the font of the active theme in EmulationStation, and if it has none it takes the Carbon theme font as default.

                                A little video demo of the script working https://streamable.com/s/bbzzd/fecqc

                                And here's the the splashscreen of the Pixel theme with a Fun Fact!™ using Pixel's own font.

                                0_1510312850864_Captura de pantalla 2017-11-09 a les 13.20.02.png

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                                • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
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                                • meleuM
                                  meleu @hiulit
                                  last edited by

                                  @hiulit you're doing a good job bro!!

                                  I've submitted a PR to your repo. But, as I'm away from my RetroPie currently, please test it before merging. ;-)

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                                  • hiulitH
                                    hiulit
                                    last edited by

                                    WOW, thanks man! I will take a look at it and I'll get back to you :)

                                    My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

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                                    • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                    • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                    • hiulitH
                                      hiulit @meleu
                                      last edited by hiulit

                                      @meleu Hey, I've merged your pull request but I had to make a little change because it didn't seem to work properly.

                                      The change I made was adding a ! before -f "$splashscreen" when checking for the splashscreen.

                                      if [[ ! -f "$splash" ]]; then
                                          splash="$DEFAULT_SPLASH"
                                      fi
                                      

                                      Besides that, everything was alright! Thanks! :)

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                                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
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                                      • hiulitH
                                        hiulit
                                        last edited by

                                        @meleu When I encountered the problem with Pixel theme and xmlstarlet I tried a different approach for finding the font.

                                        function get_theme_font() {
                                            get_current_theme
                                            if [[ -n "$(find "$ES_DIR/themes/$current_theme/art" -type f -name '*.ttf')" ]]; then
                                                font="$(find "$ES_DIR/themes/$current_theme/art" -type f -name '*.ttf')"
                                            else
                                                font=$DEFAULT_FONT
                                            fi
                                        }
                                        

                                        I did the job, but I wasn't happy about repeating the find function , but I don't know any better :P

                                        Do you think that could be a workaround for finding theme fonts?

                                        I know that some themes can have multiple fonts but I think it's ok to use the first one found.

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                                        • meleuM
                                          meleu @hiulit
                                          last edited by

                                          @hiulit it's better to move the nerdy conversation to the nerdy topic... :)

                                          I'll try to answer your questions there. Wait a moment. ;)

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                                          • hiulitH
                                            hiulit @meleu
                                            last edited by

                                            @meleu Oh, you're right! ;) See you there!

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