[Theme] RetroFlix

pacdude

Hi, all! I got a RetroPie a couple weeks ago and I've been in love with it. I just started working on a new theme based on the graphic design stylings of Netflix, and I just wanted you all to sneak a peek. I don't know much about this stuff, but I'm learning and I think it's turning up well!!

RetroFlix for Retropie

Now my first question: any themers know how to not display fields that don't have meta information (like genre and such)?

NYIslanders91

This looks pretty cool... Looking forward to release.

EctoOne

@pacdude set <pos>1 1</pos> to move the unwanted elements of screen.

pacdude

@ectoone Is there a conditional if the information is not present? Or is that not a thing?

EctoOne

@pacdude Sorry but I don't understand your question.
All information from a gamelist are parsed no matter what. And you need to have all elements defined in your theme or otherwise it will use the default layout. So the only way to hide things, is to move them out of bounds.
Here is a short code snippet to hide all metadata except the description and the image:

<view name="detailed, video">
<!-------------Hidden----------------->		
  <text name="md_lbl_players, md_players, md_lbl_developer, md_developer, md_lbl_publisher, md_publsher, md_lbl_genre, md_genre, md_lbl_playcount, md_playcount, md_lbl_lastplayed, md_lbl_releasedate, md_lbl_rating">
   <pos>1 1</pos>
  </text>
  <datetime name="md_lastplayed, md_releasedate">
   <pos>1 1</pos>
  </datetime> 
  <rating name="md_rating">
   <pos>1 1</pos>
  </rating>
 </view>

pacdude

I'm actually realizing my question is silly.

I guess what I was asking if there was a way to hide information from the metadata if it wasn't defined (like what happens before you scrape, there's no info except for the ROM name). So, if the system couldn't read a line of data, it wouldn't show anything.

But of course it won't show anything. It'll just display what's in the field, and if the field's blank, it should just show nothing at all.

HurricaneFan

This looks cool, will it handle video previews?

pacdude

It's built for that! In the Arkanoid preview, that's a scraped video.

hooperre

Dig it! Really love the video combined with a prominent picture too. Great work!

alphatoanant

This is looking awesome. Love the way the system view is laid out. Very sharp.

pacdude

Next question: is there a way to put the highlighted game name in plain text somewhere? Is that a variable?

HurricaneFan

@pacdude Not that I know of. The name only exists in the gamelist.

pacdude

@hurricanefan Thank you!

pacdude

A few more tweaks, to the game view: https://twitter.com/pacdude/status/903302557824667649

EctoOne

@pacdude said in [Theme] RetroFlix:

Next question: is there a way to put the highlighted game name in plain text somewhere? Is that a variable?

I asked one of our great coders the same question a few days ago and the answer is: No.
But it might be possible that we will get that when grid view arrives, because, from what I've read, that comes with md_gamename and maybe that will be available outside of grid view.

A workaround might be to use a second gamelist just as big enough to show one game. I just thought of that so I don't know if it's possible to even have one element multiple times.

IcyFever

Any updates on this theme? Really looking forward to running it on my pi, looks fantastic.

mattrixk

@ectoone I'm pretty sure you can only display a single gamelist.

EctoOne

@mattrixk yep, you're right. well, it was an idea that i never tried before. :)

HurricaneFan

@pacdude Any update on your new theme?