Switch Theme

lilbud

Interesting that your simple background was so fitting.

That was kind of the point of this theme, the simpler background allows me to make changes very quickly. It can also be colored in the theme.xml to any hex color.

edmaul69

@lilbud nice. How do i remove the white strip out of my theme? I notice all these new themes no longer have them.

lilbud

@edmaul69 Do you mean the carousel?

edmaul69

@lilbud yes

lilbud

@edmaul69 Update EmulationStation

edmaul69

@lilbud i did. I have the new one with black screen. I did it a couple days ago. I am assuming i have to change something in my theme??

lilbud

@edmaul69 It should have been fixed with the newest update, actually, the custom carousel was added a few updates ago.

EctoOne

@edmaul69 You can read about it here for example https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2696/input-needed-es-theming-improvements/181

edmaul69

@EctoOne thank you. that was the edit i needed to make to my theme. now the problem i have is it made my system icons really really puny and not vertically centered. they all sit at the bottom of the carousal.

makaveeti

hi guys,

I tried using the switch theme but its not displaying properly. I extracted it to its correct location in the themes folder however when I select it in Emulation Station (latest version for windows). It doesn't appear as it's supposed to. Here are some photos:

http://i64.tinypic.com/25pu9h4.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2qtycdu.jpg

All I see is a plain white background and the system names in text format.

How do I resolve the issue please?

EctoOne

@makaveeti i guess you need to update Emulation Station. Switch has some features which aren't included in older ES versions.

makaveeti

I downloaded emulation station (windows version) from the website -

http://www.emulationstation.org/#download

which was last updated 3/8/15

is there a link to the latest version?

lilbud

@makaveeti update from retropie setup

makaveeti

@lilbud i'm using the windows version only. Does version 4.2 exist for the windows platform?

I don't have a raspberry Pi. I tried installing it using Ubuntu on VMware but was unsuccessful. The installation hangs after a while :/

lilbud

@makaveeti

@jdrassa has a Windows build you might wanna check out

makaveeti

@lilbud thanks very much dude. the theme now works :)

FlyingTomahawk

Never mind

makaveeti

@lilbud hey man, you're theme looks great in my setup of emustation.

Can I ask if you have ported the switch dark theme to work with RetroFE?

lilbud

@makaveeti Never heard of it

dustloop

Oh my lord this looks NICE!

Will all you creative people out there stop giving me choices! Too many good themes haha