Io - New Theme
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@mattrixk Could I use 3D box art instead for this theme? Thanks a lot for your sharing.
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@tien_huu_1408: A theme doesn't have any say in what metadata image is used for a game. If a game has had it's metadata scraped, then a theme will just use that image.
If you have already set up custom images/artwork for your games (such as screenshots, title screens, and 3D box art), then a theme will use those images.
I made the Image area square so that square, landscape and portrait shaped images will all fit fine and look okay.
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@mattrixk I think it will look good on my raspi1. Thanks for sharing it!
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@meleu: No worries. I'm actually planning on making a cut-down Detailed View that just shows the image and the gamelist with larger font size, so it will look okay on smaller screens (PiBoys and the like).
Now that I think about it, I may make it so there are 3 different sizes, the large default size with all the metadata, a medium size with just gamelist and image side by side, and then a small size with the image taking up most of the top of the screen and a gamelist that only shows 3 titles at a time at the bottom of the screen. Then the user can change which size they use by uncommenting out the right code... I can make this work, it won't be hard.
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I like what you've done with the metadata!! Hope this gets added to the main theme repo :)
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@robertybob Thanks mate. I tried to do something different to what I had seen elsewhere, and I like the idea of having the large image, so it all just came from that.
Hope this gets added to the main theme repo
I don't have any control of that, but if @herb_fargus or possibly @RetroPieNerd deem it worthy, then I would be a very happy chappy.
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@mattrixk said in Io - New Theme:
I don't have any control of that
anyone with a github account can make Pull Requests. ;-)
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@meleu I'd rather not mess with that side of things. I think I'll stick with making themes. My profession is front-end web dev, so working with xml is fine, but I think anything more is way over my head.
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@mattrixk No worries. We apreciate your work here. Thanks!
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Sorry I could not do this earlier, I was busy... I got your theme in the repo!
I don't have any control of that, but if @herb_fargus or possibly @RetroPieNerd deem it worthy, then I would be a very happy chappy.
I am just a friendly nerd trying to help out in the RetroPie community!
Don't sweat it.
When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.😎
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The right theme for my 4,3" CarPoPiCam
The low contrast of the CRT Display sux with the standard Carbon theme.
This is a good choice :) -
@RetroPieNerd: Cheers mate. That's what I like about this community; we all have different skills and all pitch in where we can.
@cyperghost: I'm happy it suits your needs. I'm currently working to give the Detailed View a different layout for different size screens. It should be done in the next week or so, depending on my workload.
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@mattrixk
I installed IO theme today and when I changed from Carbon to IO the emulationstation crashed. I got the bash prompt but it doesn't accpet any input from the keyboard. I log into the pi via SSH, kill the bash process that is running in tty1 terminal, and then emulationstation starts again with the Carbon theme. I switch to your other themes (metapixel, spare) and everything runs fine. The problem happens only with IO.Some info for debugging:
Pi Model: 2 B
RetroPie Version Used: 4.0.2
EmulationStation Version Used: I've just update from binary using RetroPie-Setup
Built From: Pre made 3.8 SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: wireless keyboard, wifi dongle, bluetooth dongle
Controller used: 8Bitdo SNES30 joystick
Error messages received:emulationstation: /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:198: Font::Font(int, const string&): Assertion `mSize > 0' failed.How to replicate the problem: install IO theme from RetroPie-Setup and then in emulationstation change to IO theme
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Hmm, thanks for the heads up @meleu. I make my themes using a portable windows version of ES, rather than RetroPie on a RPi, so I never got that error. I'll have a look into it. Judging from the error message, it could be that RetroPie doesn't like the google font I've used, but honestly, I don't really know what any of that means. Maybe someone who knows more about RetroPie like @herb_fargus or more about themes in general like @Rookervik would have a better idea.
I just realised it could be something to do with font sizing. In the Io theme I wanted to hide a couple pieces of metadata, so instead of using
<pos>1 1</pos>or something, I used<fontSize>0</fontSize>. It worked fine for me so I didn't think much of it. I didn't do this in Spare or MetaPixel. -
@mattrixk
Yes that is it. It works for me on all systems now.- Open io.xml and search for
<fontSize>0</fontSize> - Replace all occurrences with
<pos>1 1</pos>
afair there are 2 matches of the fontsize string. Thank you!
- Open io.xml and search for
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@cyperghost: Great, thanks for testing that out. I'll hopefully get a fix up for that soon.
That's something I'll need to remember for the future.
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I've made an update to the Io theme.
- I fixed the fontSize bug pointed out by @meleu.
- The theme now has 3 different sizes for different size screens:
- Large size for desktops and computer monitors (this is the default view).
- Medium size sacrifices most metadata for a larger image.
- Small size is for handhelds and shows nothing but the image and gamelist. It also has larger font size for better legibility on a smaller screen.
'Io' Theme Detailed View - Medium
'Io' Theme Basic View - Small
'Io' Theme Detailed View - Small
I don't have any way to test this on a handheld or 4/3 screen, so if anyone comes across any problems, let me know and I'll see about fixing them.
@RetroPieNerd: Do I need to do anything to update this in RetroPie, or does it just pull straight from the GitHub repo, so anyway grabbing it gets the current version?
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Great theme @mattrixk !!!
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esthemes.sh pulls straight from the GitHub Repo so all you would have to do is select your theme and press update.
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So it will download the latest version and overwrite the old in RetroPie.
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