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    • mattrixkM
      mattrixk @tien_huu_1408
      last edited by

      @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.

      My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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      • meleuM
        meleu @mattrixk
        last edited by

        @mattrixk I think it will look good on my raspi1. Thanks for sharing it!

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        • mattrixkM
          mattrixk @meleu
          last edited by

          @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.

          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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            robertybob
            last edited by robertybob

            I like what you've done with the metadata!! Hope this gets added to the main theme repo :)

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            • mattrixkM
              mattrixk @robertybob
              last edited by

              @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.

              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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              • meleuM
                meleu @mattrixk
                last edited by

                @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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                • mattrixkM
                  mattrixk @meleu
                  last edited by

                  @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.

                  My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                  • meleuM
                    meleu @mattrixk
                    last edited by

                    @mattrixk No worries. We apreciate your work here. Thanks!

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                    • PokeEngineerP
                      PokeEngineer @mattrixk
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                      @mattrixk

                      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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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost
                        last edited by cyperghost

                        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 :)

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                        • mattrixkM
                          mattrixk @PokeEngineer
                          last edited by

                          @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.

                          My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                          • meleuM
                            meleu @mattrixk
                            last edited by meleu

                            @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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                            • mattrixkM
                              mattrixk @meleu
                              last edited by

                              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.

                              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                              • cyperghostC
                                cyperghost @mattrixk
                                last edited by cyperghost

                                @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!

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                                • mattrixkM
                                  mattrixk @cyperghost
                                  last edited by mattrixk

                                  @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.

                                  My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                  • mattrixkM
                                    mattrixk
                                    last edited by

                                    I've made an update to the Io theme.

                                    1. I fixed the fontSize bug pointed out by @meleu.
                                    2. 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 Detailed View

                                    'Io' Theme Basic View - Small
                                    Io Theme Basic View

                                    'Io' Theme Detailed View - Small
                                    Io Theme Detailed View

                                    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?

                                    My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                      backstander
                                      last edited by backstander

                                      Great theme @mattrixk !!!

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                                      • PokeEngineerP
                                        PokeEngineer @mattrixk
                                        last edited by

                                        @mattrixk

                                        esthemes.sh pulls straight from the GitHub Repo so all you would have to do is select your theme and press update.

                                        Don't sweat it.
                                        When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.

                                        😎

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                                        • PokeEngineerP
                                          PokeEngineer @mattrixk
                                          last edited by

                                          @mattrixk

                                          So it will download the latest version and overwrite the old in RetroPie.

                                          Don't sweat it.
                                          When in doubt, take a BYTE out of life.

                                          😎

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                                          • mattrixkM
                                            mattrixk @backstander
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks @backstander :D

                                            @RetroPieNerd: Cheers for the info. It's good that I don't really have to do anything on my end except update the theme repo and anyone pulling it gets the most recent version. It could get messy if I had to somehow push it to the RetroPie repo or something. I'm not fully down with GitHub yet.

                                            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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