Flat Theme

Roxsteady

@Nismo thank you

lilbud

@Nismo I changed the height of the marquee

Nismo

@lilbud Yes I told you that you need to modify that, just because I improved your theme for video in a few minutes and I didn't want to spend time optimizing the size of marquees.

How about the marquees on top of some system logos like nes? How are you planning to solve that?

lilbud

@Nismo I really don't know, I don't use video or marquees. I might just remove marquees. Since they can vary so wildly in size, I have to watch where I place them.

Nismo

@lilbud See my tips on the post above, also I changed <size> for <maxSize> for marquees in your flat.xml that way you can adjust the maximum for a wheel art to not override anything.

Also remove them it's a good idea too, because I think wheels broke a bit the flat style of the theme.

Roxsteady

Just FYI @greekmanx When you swap the images from Megadrive to Genesis, and PCEngine to TB16, the PCEngine/TB16 logo breaks but the Genesis logo is fixed. So I swapped back.

Roxsteady

Are you guys making changes via the github link? Just so to be sure I download the latest theme as we go along.

lilbud

@Roxsteady I believe @greekmanx is making the changes in his local copy, not to the GitHub. Not sure

greekmanx

I honestly don't know how to make changes to github I am new to this and the only change I made was fix the pc engine to say hudson instead of nintendo.

Roxsteady

@greekmanx How did you get the title logo to show at the top right for each game?

stackdefiler

@greekmanx let me know if you need help making a pull request on Github. The basic gist is to fork his repo https://github.com/lilbud/es-theme-flat and then make your changes to your fork. You can then send a pull request to his repo so that the changes are updated to the master.

greekmanx

@Roxsteady I didn't do anything just installed theme only change I made is edit the theme.xml in pcengine to say hudson instead of nintendo.

greekmanx

@stackdefiler the way you wrote it seems easy I will try that when and if I make more changes.

greekmanx

so I am loving the theme the dark version btw only issue is at the bottom of each game list it chops off the name of the game.

Also I now agree with nismo I would get rid of marquees they don't match the theme as you see in my pic looks cleaner without them. Also I only don't have them in pic because I manually made this list for DS and didn't add any marquees don't want them and don't know where to find them

lilbud

@greekmanx Doesn't happen to me

Roxsteady

@greekmanx Ah I see. I only ask because in the video it showed the game title/logo on the top right. Universal XML Scraper so logo, images, box art are all in one.

greekmanx

@Roxsteady you mean the marquee? I am using MotionBlue Rom packs so he compiled the marquees, images, videos, and gamelist.xml I just sent them to my pi. With the exception of DS that is I am making that myself.

hooperre

@greekmanx Same thing for me. Happens with a few other themes (Simple) for me too. Found a fix for this? Mildly infurating.

greekmanx

@hooperre you mean the list cutting off if so no I have not found a fix it sucks but for now I live wish I knew why it did it

mattrixk

@greekmanx / @hooperre There are 2 things you can do to fix the gamelist getting cut off. First, open flat.xml and make one or both of these changes.

Change the <size> of the <textlist name="gamelist"> that is giving you trouble.
- eg: line 64 has <size>0.648 0.68</size>. The first number is the width of the gamelist, the second is the height. Both are in percent-of-screen-size. 1 is full width, 0.5 is half width and 0 is no width.
- Change the second number to one slightly smaller or larger and it will either hide the cut off item or show more of it (respectively).
- Remember to fix each of the gamelists that are getting cut off.
Add <lineSpacing> to the gamelist. This controls the space between lines (as a multiple of font height). The default is 1.5, so it would look like this: <lineSpacing>1.5</lineSpacing>.
- You can change that number to anything else. A higher number will increase the space between the lines and a lower number will decrease them.

Use either or both of these options to sort out your gamelists.