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    meleu @hiulit
    last edited by meleu 11 Aug 2017, 17:43 8 Nov 2017, 17:39

    @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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      hiulit @meleu
      last edited by 8 Nov 2017, 18:09

      @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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        hiulit @meleu
        last edited by 8 Nov 2017, 19:18

        @meleu Done! It works beautifully :D

        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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          Zigurana
          last edited by 8 Nov 2017, 19:26

          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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            meleu @Zigurana
            last edited by 8 Nov 2017, 20:07

            @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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              hiulit @Zigurana
              last edited by 9 Nov 2017, 09:06

              @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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                hiulit
                last edited by hiulit 11 Oct 2017, 11:25 10 Nov 2017, 11:24

                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

                My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                • Limit-Last-Played-Games
                M 1 Reply Last reply 10 Nov 2017, 13:27 Reply Quote 1
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                  meleu @hiulit
                  last edited by 10 Nov 2017, 13:27

                  @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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                  H 1 Reply Last reply 11 Nov 2017, 12:28 Reply Quote 1
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                    hiulit
                    last edited by 10 Nov 2017, 13:52

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

                    My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                    • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                    • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                    • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                      hiulit @meleu
                      last edited by hiulit 11 Nov 2017, 12:29 11 Nov 2017, 12:28

                      @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! :)

                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                        hiulit
                        last edited by 11 Nov 2017, 12:55

                        @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.

                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                          meleu @hiulit
                          last edited by 11 Nov 2017, 13:15

                          @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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                            hiulit @meleu
                            last edited by 11 Nov 2017, 13:17

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

                            My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                            • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                            • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                            • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                              meleu
                              last edited by meleu 13 Nov 2017, 14:36

                              @BuZz please, evaluate if you would accept the following feature for splashscreen script module (and asplashscreen.sh script):

                              Adding an option to put a random "fun fact" on the splashscreen.

                              The result would be something like this:

                              pixelsplashfunfact

                              Some notes about how I'm thinking to implement that:

                              • add a toggle option on splashscreen script module to enable/disable fun facts.

                              • when enabled, a new splashscreen would be generated at every boot

                              • a new dependency to generate the images: imagemagick (same as launchingimages scriptmodule).

                              • the image would be generated at boot in a background process and would be used in the next boot. I mean, when I boot my pi, the splashscreen I would see already exists and the script would be generating a new one for the next boot in a background process.

                              • (obviously) it would be only used when the splashscreen is an image (do nothing when using a video)

                              • the "fun facts database" would be a text file in $datadir/splashscreens/.

                                • an "official" funfacts collection could be stored in the official repo in scriptmodules/supplementary/splashscreen/

                                • provide a way to the user use a custom funfacts collection.

                              • the font to be used for the fun fact text would be the same as the one used by the current ES theme in detailed view.

                                • Note: RetroPie must be frontend agnostic. Then, if the script can't find the font as described above, it would use a generic font.
                              • all the logic for the image generation would be in asplashscreen.sh script

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                              B 1 Reply Last reply 13 Nov 2017, 17:10 Reply Quote 0
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                                BuZz administrators @meleu
                                last edited by 13 Nov 2017, 17:10

                                @meleu I wouldn't be interested sorry.

                                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  meleu @BuZz
                                  last edited by 13 Nov 2017, 17:13

                                  @buzz copy that.

                                  @hiulit let's keep the development extra-officially.

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                                    hiulit @meleu
                                    last edited by 13 Nov 2017, 17:25

                                    @meleu Alright!

                                    My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                    • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                    • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                    • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                      hiulit
                                      last edited by hiulit 12 Dec 2017, 09:45 18 Nov 2017, 21:16

                                      Good news everyone!
                                      We have a working Fun Facts Splashscreens generator! :D

                                      https://github.com/hiulit/RetroPie-Fun-Facts-Splashscreens

                                      Fun Facts Splashscreens for RetroPie

                                      Not working yet! Well, it's working, but it's not officially released! It's just for testing purposes!

                                      This script generates splashscreens for RetroPie with a random Fun Fact!™.

                                      WARNING: Splashscreens are only only available on the Raspberry Pi.

                                      For now, this is the best way to use the splashscreen created by this script:

                                      • Create a Fun Fact!™ splashscreen. See the examples below.
                                      • Go to the Splashscreen Menu (the Splashscreen Menu can be accessed from the RetroPie Menu in EmulationStation or through the setup script under option 3)
                                      • Select the Choose Own Splashscreen option. See the Splashscreen wiki.
                                      • Select the recently created Fun Fact!™ splashscreen.

                                      Instalation

                                      cd /home/pi/
                                      git clone https://github.com/hiulit/es-fun-facts-splashscreens.git
                                      cd es-fun-facts-splashscreens/
                                      sudo chmod +x es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh
                                      

                                      Usage

                                      sudo ./es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh [options]
                                      

                                      If no options are passed, you will be prompted with a usage example:

                                      USAGE: sudo ./es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh [options]
                                      
                                      Use '--help' to see all the options
                                      

                                      Options

                                      • --help: Print the help message and exit.
                                      • --enable-boot: Enable script to be launch at boot.
                                        • $1: Path to the splashscreen to be used.
                                        • $2: Text color.
                                      • --disable-boot: Disable script to be launch at boot.
                                      • --create-fun-fact: Create Fun Fact Splashscreen.
                                        • $1: Path to the splashscreen to be used.
                                        • $2: Text color.

                                      If no options are passed to --create-fun-fact or --enable-boot, the script takes the splashscreen and the text color defaults, splash4-3.png and white, respectively.

                                      Examples

                                      --help

                                      Print the help message and exit.

                                      sudo ./es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh --help
                                      

                                      --enable-boot [options]

                                      Enable script to be launch at boot.

                                      WARNING: Backing up /etc/rc.local it's most recommended before using this option. It could erase important stuff. Use it at your own risk.

                                      Options:

                                      • $1: Path to the splashscreen to be used.
                                      • $2: Text color.
                                      sudo ./es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh --enable-boot /home/pi/Downloads/retropie-2014.png black
                                      

                                      --disable-boot

                                      Disable script to be launch at boot.

                                      WARNING: Backing up /etc/rc.local it's most recommended before using this option. It could erase important stuff. Use it at your own risk.

                                      sudo ./es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh --disable-boot
                                      

                                      --create-fun-fact

                                      Create Fun Fact Splashscreen.

                                      Options:

                                      • $1: Path to the splashscreen to be used.
                                      • $2: Text color.
                                      sudo ./es-fun-facts-splashscreens.sh --create-fun-fact /home/pi/Downloads/retropie-2014.png black
                                      

                                      Credits

                                      Thanks to:

                                      • @Parviglumis - For the idea of creating the Fun Facts Splashscreens.
                                      • @meleu - For all his help and wisdom with the code :D
                                      • All the people at the RetroPie Forum.

                                      My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                      • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                      • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                      • Limit-Last-Played-Games
                                      M 1 Reply Last reply 18 Nov 2017, 23:36 Reply Quote 2
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                                        hiulit
                                        last edited by hiulit 18 Nov 2017, 21:33

                                        Here's a little video demo where you can see it generates a new random splashscreens at every boot:

                                        Fun Facts! Splashscreens video demo

                                        P.S. I know!!! Get a new power supply!! I know!!! :P

                                        My little contributions to the RetroPie project:

                                        • Shell-Script-Boilerplate
                                        • Fun-Facts-Splashscreens
                                        • Limit-Last-Played-Games
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                                          meleu @hiulit
                                          last edited by 18 Nov 2017, 23:36

                                          @hiulit Good job! :D

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