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    Is a text carousel possible?

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    • lilbudL
      lilbud @Omnija
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      @omnija No, I mean bolding and changing the color of the selected system. Like that can be done with the gamelist

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      • OmnijaO
        Omnija @lilbud
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        @lilbud you could try the colour change but id have to say no on the bolding.

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        • lilbudL
          lilbud @Omnija
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          @omnija How about a way to use different logos for the selected system as compared to the unselected?

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            jdrassa @lilbud
            last edited by jdrassa

            @lilbud you may be able do to something similar to your example. You can't change the color per say, but the unselected text will be slightly transparent which will allow the background color to bleed through.

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            • lilbudL
              lilbud @jdrassa
              last edited by lilbud

              @jdrassa I'm not sure if this was you or not, but someone on this forum had the idea to allow the changing of the carousels origin. So the selected logo could be in the center, or to the left of the screen.

              Do you know who had the idea?

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              • meleuM
                meleu @lilbud
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                @lilbud said in Is a text carousel possible?:

                Is there a way to make the carousel use text to display systems instead of pictures?

                (didn't read all the answers above, sorry if I'm being repetitive)

                I don't know the details but I think yes, cause the "favorites" and "last played" systems on my Carbon are displayed as "FAVORITES" and "RECENT". I'm pretty sure that they are text, cause when "FAVORITES" is the choosen one looks like there's no room for all the text and it says "FAVORI...".

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                • lilbudL
                  lilbud @meleu
                  last edited by lilbud

                  @meleu I think those are images of text, which is sadly not what I'm after. I'm looking to make something along the lines of this. Where the carousel is all text, no images, and it is a different font for the selected one as compared to the non-selected systems

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                  • meleuM
                    meleu @lilbud
                    last edited by

                    @lilbud Oh, I got it.

                    I was searching on Carbon repo commit history and the found this PR from @jdrassa . Looks like he is already in this thread here and answered your question...

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                    • herb_fargusH
                      herb_fargus administrators @lilbud
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                      @lilbud I imagine something like that may be better suited for Pegasus once it's a little more developed

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                        jdrassa @lilbud
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                        @lilbud said in Is a text carousel possible?:

                        @jdrassa I'm not sure if this was you or not, but someone on this forum had the idea to allow the changing of the carousels origin. So the selected logo could be in the center, or to the left of the screen.

                        Do you know who had the idea?

                        It wasn't my idea, but I am working on it.

                        @lilbud said in Is a text carousel possible?:

                        @meleu I think those are images of text, which is sadly not what I'm after. I'm looking to make something along the lines of this. Where the carousel is all text, no images, and it is a different font for the selected one as compared to the non-selected systems

                        @meleu is correct. The "favorites" and "last played" all rendered as text in carbon. They are not images. You can now set the font and color that the text is rendered, but you can not specify a different font for the selected one.

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