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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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                                          • mattrixkM
                                            mattrixk
                                            last edited by

                                            The Medium size option of the Io Theme now supports 4:3 resolution.

                                            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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