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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
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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.

                  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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                                  • meleuM
                                    meleu @mattrixk
                                    last edited by

                                    @mattrixk I forgot to give a feedback. The io theme is now running fine here. Thanks!

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                                    • cyperghostC
                                      cyperghost @meleu
                                      last edited by

                                      @meleu
                                      Do you think it could be possible to change large/medium/small size of themes directly via RetroPie? I think about a database that holds data which theme is able to be changed. You select the option, do a restart of ES et voilà c'est bon.

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                                      • mattrixkM
                                        mattrixk @cyperghost
                                        last edited by

                                        @meleu: Cheers for the testing. I'm working in GridView now.

                                        @cyperghost: I like the idea, but it's way out of my realm of understanding. It's not something that ES themes can do natively.

                                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                        • meleuM
                                          meleu @mattrixk
                                          last edited by meleu

                                          Hi @mattrixk !

                                          I'm working on a script to automatically generate launching images (discussing about the script on this thread).

                                          I'm not a specialist in emulationstation themes and its XML file structure, but I was able to make my script get the background image from the XML file associated with the theme. More precisely, it gets the <path> field from the system view <image name=background>.

                                          Example from the metapixel theme:

                                          <theme>
                                              ...
                                              <view name="system, basic, detailed">
                                                  <image name="background" extra="true">
                                                      ...
                                                      <path>./art/bg_simple.png</path>
                                          

                                          The script successfully gets the bg_simple.png file from the metapixel.xml.

                                          This approach works fine with every theme I tested my script, except the IO theme. Because it seems that its XML file (large.xml) doesn't follow the <image name=background> standard. I see bg_color, bg_help, bg_logo, bg_gamelist, etc... But no background.

                                          So here's my question: Is there a more accurate way to get background from a ES theme XML file?

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                                          • meleuM
                                            meleu @meleu
                                            last edited by meleu

                                            @meleu said in Io - New Theme:

                                            So here's my question: Is there a more accurate way to get background from a ES theme XML file?

                                            I think I've found the answer a little hidden in one sentence of the EmulationStation themes documentation:

                                            "Extra" elements will be drawn in the order they are defined (so define backgrounds first!).

                                            Would I be right to say that I can get the system view background from the very first "extra" XML element inside the <view name=system>?

                                            Time to make some tests... :-)

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