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    Certain themes suddenly started misaligning text selections in EmulationStation

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    • ruckageR
      ruckage @TMNTturtlguy
      last edited by

      I'm sorry, I'm partially to blame for this it seems as these changes were kindly made by @jdrassa at my request. They are however worthwhile as previously the gamelist had several bugs which meant it didn't behave how it was supposed to and now it does. I knew it would mess up my theme because I was using some hacks to get it to behave how I wanted but didn't realise it would impact other themes as well.
      Any changes needed though should be minor but the new tags obviously aren't supported in older versions of ES.

      @TMNTturtlguy said in Certain themes suddenly started misaligning text selections in EmulationStation:

      @ruckage I downloaded font forage to see if i could modify the text to move all of the font above the horizontal baseline, however I cannot seam to figure out how to successfully do this. I can set the amount they can move above or below, but not tell them all to simply move up above the baseline. My thought is that if the font is floating above the baseline, I can recenter the font within the existing selector bar. Do you have any ideas for me on how i might accomplish this? Thanks

      That's actually very similar to what I had to do originally to get my gamelist to work properly though in my case it was because linespacing was broken in ES. It's late here at the moment but leave it with me and I will have a look at the font tomorrow and see if I can do anything to help.

      SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

      If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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      • TMNTturtlguyT
        TMNTturtlguy @ruckage
        last edited by

        @ruckage thank you so much sir! @jdrassa fix and your request are well worth it. I plan to use it in the future. Thanks for your help.

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        • ruckageR
          ruckage @TMNTturtlguy
          last edited by ruckage

          @TMNTturtlguy said in Certain themes suddenly started misaligning text selections in EmulationStation:

          @ruckage thank you so much sir! @jdrassa fix and your request are well worth it. I plan to use it in the future. Thanks for your help.

          Who needs sleep zzzzzzzzzz, sorry where was I ;)

          I've modified the font by moving all the character up and it looks like it fixes the problem and doesn't seem to break the alignment in older versions of ES either. I'm not 100% sure, I have so many versions of ES now I'm losing track a bit - I'm not very organized :). I've tested it in a few different versions though including what I believe is the latest version and the gamelist text is centered on the selector bar on all of them.

          You can download the font from mega: fixed font

          It is a really hacky fix however so should probably be fixed correctly in the future but as long as it works that's the main thing, let me know how it goes.

          It 3.40am now so I'm off to bed.

          SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

          If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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          • ruckageR
            ruckage @TMNTturtlguy
            last edited by

            @TMNTturtlguy
            Hi, have you had a chance to try out the fixed font I posted?

            SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

            If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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            • TMNTturtlguyT
              TMNTturtlguy @ruckage
              last edited by TMNTturtlguy

              @ruckage hey! I am traveling a lot for work right now and don't have access to my pi. I won't be able to test until Sunday night :(

              Thank you so much for taking your time to help me. I will test as soon as I get home and let you know how it works.

              Edit: also, thank you so much for staying up so late to work on this. I really appreciate. Do you have a good resource on how to use font forge? Or just their site? I would like to try to learn these tricks! Thanks again.

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              • J
                jdrassa
                last edited by

                I have a working fix. I just need to test it out with some more themes to verify there are no additional negative effects.

                Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                • TMNTturtlguyT
                  TMNTturtlguy
                  last edited by

                  @ruckage I pulled down the text you created for me and it works perfectly! Thank you so much. i just added that font to my theme and only used it in the gamelist so that it doesn't effect any other alignment and it looks great. Thanks again for all the help with this!

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                  • ruckageR
                    ruckage @TMNTturtlguy
                    last edited by

                    @TMNTturtlguy
                    No problem, I'm happy to help. I'm glad it works.
                    Looks like @jdrassa has a fix too which is good news.

                    SNES mini/Nes mini/Famicom mini theme developer.

                    If you'd like to support my work you can donate here: Donate

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                    • J
                      jdrassa
                      last edited by

                      I just submitted the fix. Moral of the story is that fonts are weird.

                      Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                      • mattrixkM
                        mattrixk @jdrassa
                        last edited by

                        @jdrassa I haven't really had the chance to follow the forum lately... do I need to do something to fix up MetaPixel, or have you fixed that?

                        My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                          jdrassa @mattrixk
                          last edited by

                          @mattrixk I fixed it.

                          Get latest build of EmulationStation for Windows here

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                          • RedBatmanR
                            RedBatman @jdrassa
                            last edited by

                            @jdrassa So where do we go to update? ES themes? Or somewhere else?

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                            • pjftP
                              pjft
                              last edited by

                              Update ES from source.

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                              • RedBatmanR
                                RedBatman @pjft
                                last edited by

                                @pjft Thanks

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                                • pjftP
                                  pjft @RedBatman
                                  last edited by

                                  @RedBatman Not a bother. Just remember to exit ES before updating, just in case :)

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                                  • RedBatmanR
                                    RedBatman @pjft
                                    last edited by

                                    @pjft Oh, should I update from ssh?

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                                    • pjftP
                                      pjft @RedBatman
                                      last edited by

                                      @RedBatman There have been situations where updating it from source from within ES has caused the update to fail after several hours for lack of memory, given that ES is in the background.

                                      But it's up to you and your experience so far.

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                                      • RedBatmanR
                                        RedBatman @pjft
                                        last edited by

                                        @pjft Okay so I wan't able to get the update from updating emulation station from source. Where do I go to download it?

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                                        • pjftP
                                          pjft @RedBatman
                                          last edited by

                                          @RedBatman that's the only way. What do you mean you weren't able to update from source?

                                          You can exit EmulationStation via pressing f4 and then running RetroPie setup manually to update.

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                                          • RedBatmanR
                                            RedBatman @pjft
                                            last edited by RedBatman

                                            @pjft No I did that, I went to ssh and updated emulation station from source and then i rebooted and yet some themes such as workbench still have the issue. Which is why I asked did I update from the wrong area. Where should I go to get this fixed properly

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