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    • CarissaIsWierdC
      CarissaIsWierd @f.caruso
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      @f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

      @CarissaIsWierd

      <centerSelection>false</centerSelection>
      

      I had already tried that, but everything still selects in the middle row. Here's how it looks in ES as I keep moving up and down.

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      • LiveFreeDeadL
        LiveFreeDead @f.caruso
        last edited by LiveFreeDead

        @f-caruso Well it seams now that if I run EmulationStation.exe directly that the Scaling issues are fixed, thank you.

        However - if anyone uses --fullscreen and provides an actual resolution, it doesn't change the screen resolution anymore and if you give it less than the current resolution it condenses it in the bottom left corner of the screen if less than and expands off screen from the bottom left of ES. Might be worth centering it? I don't mind if you don't I wont use --resolution anymore anyway ;)

        -EDIT-

        GamesLists TXT (Pretend Content)

        ____________________
        _ Atari 2600:
        ____________________
        Asteroids
        Frogger
        Space Invaders
        ____________________
        _ Amiga:
        ____________________
        Aadams Family
        James Pond Robocod 2
        ____________________
        _ Sega Master System:
        ____________________
        Alex Kidd in Miricle World
        Sonic The Hedgehog 2
        Road Rash
        

        Here is another idea, maybe you could offer a tools menu so you can generate a GamesLists TXT that makes a header for each system and then lists all the names of roms, this would save a lot of work if you wanted to make lists. It would have to list them without any folders, but still it may be useful?

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        • f.carusoF
          f.caruso @LiveFreeDead
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          @CarissaIsWierd You are right. I just added a new value for centerSelection : partial.
          true -> always center the selection
          partial -> center the selection except if at begin or end of gamelist ( in not scrollLoop )
          false -> just don't ( considering behaviour has changed for false value, partial was the old "false" )
          Default decomes "false" in vertical layout. Default (finally unchanged) is "partial" in horizontal layout.

          @LiveFreeDead Your fullscreen problem using high dpi is not easy to solve... But I think I fixed it. Try the latest version.

          Maybe you could offer a tools menu so you can generate a GamesLists TXT

          Sorry I won't do that. It's absolutely not ES role to do that kind of things...
          And I don't know who will ever use that ( except you ) ?
          As you have basis in developement, I'm sure you'll find a way to enumerate gamelist.xml files, read them and output what you want ;-)

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          • LiveFreeDeadL
            LiveFreeDead @f.caruso
            last edited by

            @f-caruso Nailed it, got ALL screen choices crystal clear and acting they way they should - 100% perfect, even on my dual screen configuration I was able to switch to using --monitor 1 and it behaved.

            Big thank you again for being a great programmer and sharing with the community.

            Also the only reason I never started making a program to parse these XML's myself is I get very invested in each project I start, so I could end up writing a whole xml builder with GUI interface instead ;) I was just hoping as you had all the roms listable you might (if I was lucky) make a function that would call each system and output to a text file. But your right, it doesn't really need to be in there for everyone, wouldn't be a total loss if you make a hot key combination copy the current system's rom names to the clipboard tho right :P he he he

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            • CarissaIsWierdC
              CarissaIsWierd
              last edited by

              @f-caruso That's perfect! Thank you. I love the visible system feature too :D

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              • jeroJ
                jero @f.caruso
                last edited by

                @f-caruso Thanks for the fix, the background and scroll sound already work

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                  ThePlagueIsBack @f.caruso
                  last edited by

                  @f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                  @CarissaIsWierd You are right. I just added a new value for centerSelection : partial.
                  true -> always center the selection
                  partial -> center the selection except if at begin or end of gamelist ( in not scrollLoop )
                  false -> just don't ( considering behaviour has changed for false value, partial was the old "false" )
                  Default decomes "false" in vertical layout. Default (finally unchanged) is "partial" in horizontal layout.

                  @LiveFreeDead Your fullscreen problem using high dpi is not easy to solve... But I think I fixed it. Try the latest version.

                  Maybe you could offer a tools menu so you can generate a GamesLists TXT

                  Sorry I won't do that. It's absolutely not ES role to do that kind of things...
                  And I don't know who will ever use that ( except you ) ?
                  As you have basis in developement, I'm sure you'll find a way to enumerate gamelist.xml files, read them and output what you want ;-)

                  Amazing work Fabrice, this "partial" feat for the grid is simply amazing, thank you!

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                    ThePlagueIsBack
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                    @f-caruso Question, I'm looking to add a label to a theme that displays the system name, this would allow me to display it using a custom font instead of having to provide a logo for each system. I tried to add an additional variable to the theming system but whenever I open the detailed video game list view the app keeps crashing, I've been editing on my pc and building on app veyor so debugging is not an option for me since setting up VS via cmake is a nightmare that I never got to work...

                    I tried to create a new "metadata" label called "md_systemname" and used the following to update it with the system name:

                     mSystemName.setValue(mRoot->getSystem()->getFullName());
                    

                    Got it up and running, but crashing...

                    With such metadata available for theming I would place it on the video detailed view of the theme I'm tweaking:

                    <text name="md_systemname">
                      <zIndex>44</zIndex>       
                      <pos>0.100 0.100</pos>
                      <backgroundColor>00000000</backgroundColor>
                      <color>ffffff</color>
                      <fontPath>./_inc/fonts/GROBOLD.ttf</fontPath>
                      <fontSize>0.015</fontSize>  
                    </text>    
                    

                    Any help with getting this to work or if that's something you can easily implement I would be really grateful.

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                    • jeroJ
                      jero @ThePlagueIsBack
                      last edited by

                      @ThePlagueIsBack
                      I don't remember well, but I think with this you can

                      text name="logoText"

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                      • f.carusoF
                        f.caruso @ThePlagueIsBack
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                        @ThePlagueIsBack One line of code is not enough to help. I don't even know where this line is. Don't you have a fork on git ?

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                          ThePlagueIsBack @f.caruso
                          last edited by

                          @f-caruso lol, yeah, I thought I had pasted my fork url here with the dirty commits but now @jero solution did work nicely, thank you.

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                            ThePlagueIsBack @jero
                            last edited by

                            @jero said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                            @ThePlagueIsBack
                            I don't remember well, but I think with this you can

                            text name="logoText"

                            It did work, thank you.

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                            • jeroJ
                              jero @f.caruso
                              last edited by jero

                              @ThePlagueIsBack said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                              @jero said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                              @ThePlagueIsBack
                              I don't remember well, but I think with this you can

                              text name="logoText"

                              It did work, thank you.

                              Remember where I saw it, it was here
                              https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md

                              There are new things that f.caruso added, but they are not in this github. It would be a good idea to update all this information with the new developments of f.caruso.

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                              • f.carusoF
                                f.caruso @jero
                                last edited by

                                @jero @ThePlagueIsBack THEMES.md file is "almost" up to date on my Fork's git... If you search a bit : I also have also another ES fork. On this one, THEMES.md documentation is > 95% up to date - knowing that both forks are 100% compatible.

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                                  ThePlagueIsBack
                                  last edited by

                                  My bad, I did not read it carefully, instead just wasted tons of time trying to reinvent the wheel with no success.
                                  Thanks guys

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                                  • jeroJ
                                    jero @f.caruso
                                    last edited by jero

                                    @f-caruso said in Updated EmulationStation for Windows:

                                    @jero @ThePlagueIsBack THEMES.md file is "almost" up to date on my Fork's git... If you search a bit : I also have also another ES fork. On this one, THEMES.md documentation is > 95% up to date - knowing that both forks are 100% compatible.

                                    Excuse me, I think I am badly exiled, if everything is right in your git, everything is new, but I mean it was next to the git of aloshi. It was just a comment.

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                                      porterballs
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                                      Could someone tell me how I get the boxart to display instead of a title screenshot when I use screen scraper please! The boxart downloads but it's always the title screenshot displayed on emulationstation.

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                                      • ?
                                        A Former User
                                        last edited by

                                        Anyone using this build to launch Steam and Epic games? If so, what’s your method that seems to work best?

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                                        • CarissaIsWierdC
                                          CarissaIsWierd
                                          last edited by

                                          @f-caruso

                                          I have a couple more ideas...

                                          • Add a "Completed" metadata tag that could be toggled where "Favorite", "Hidden", and "Kid Game" are. Completed games should have a checkmark next to them (rather than a star) in list view. Grid view should have "gridtile.completed" & "gridtile.completed:selected" to style it. Additional options should be "Hide Completed Games" and "Show Completed At Bottom" (similar to "Show Favorites At Top".) That probably sounds like a lot, but it's all piggybacking off features already in ES, so hopefully it's simple?

                                          • Allow saving subset options for individual systems. As of now, systems can only choose "Gamelist View Style" and "Grid Size", saving them to es_settings. Being able to choose any option created with the subset property would be great.

                                          And a couple issues...

                                          • Custom Collections, Favorites, All Games, and Last Played don't show anything inside parentheses. If I have two games named "Pokemon (Ruby)" and "Pokemon (Sapphire)", they'll both appear as "Pokemon [GBA]" in Custom Collections and the others. I realise most people don't have this issue because they don't rename their files.

                                          • Configure Input doesn't allow defining "pageup"/"pagedown" like old ES did, but they (thankfully) can still be added manually into es_input. On list view, it works fine, but on grid view, it cycles systems. (Even with it set to something like the right analog stick.)

                                          Obviously you can ignore all these, but I wanted to mention them anyway :)

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                                            dschachm
                                            last edited by dschachm

                                            Hi, I am new to this forum and emulationstation, but I think I have a pretty good handle on it. I am not sure if it is a bug or I just need to change a setting. I have some window games like forza horizon 4 and madden nfl set up under a windows system and I use emulationstation to launch the shortcut. When I launch Madden, everything works perfect. My issue is when I Launch Forza, I guess it take a while to load, so emulationstation thinks it didn't load, and it goes back to the menu with all the games. Meanwhile, in the background, it does start to load, but then I can't get into it becuase it is back in emulationstation. Is there a way to create a delay in the es_systems.cfg before emulationstation returns to it's menu?

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