ES Video within the grid view

A12C4

@ruckage I can't try it right now and I'm not sure it will work, but have you considered to set the corner size of the ninepatch to 0 0 ? That way it should act like a normal image.

ruckage

@a12c4 said in ES Video within the grid view:

@ruckage I can't try it right now and I'm not sure it will work, but have you considered to set the corner size of the ninepatch to 0 0 ? That way it should act like a normal image.

Thanks for that suggestion, I Just tried it and it seems to work perfectly so that basically solves my problem - if the padding could be defined as normalised pairs it would completely solve it.

edit: I'm guessing this works because setting the corner size to 0 effectively makes the image just the central portion of the 9 patch and so it's stretched to fill the tile area. Clever idea. :D

duiz

@ectoone Yep, that's the one I have going.

jdrassa

@duiz Off hand my initial suggestion would be to make sure that copied over the resources directory from the new build. There were some new resources added as part of the grid implementation and if they are not found that would likely lead to a crash.

duiz

@jdrassa Yeah I did a clean install to see if it would work but no dice. Basically, when I select grid and click the Back button to activate the changes in the UI Settings menu, it freezes there for a minute or so and crash exits.

My log file also shows this:
lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow!
lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow!
lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow!
lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow!
lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow!

EctoOne

@duiz I'm not sure but I think that indicates an issue with the theme not emulationstation. What theme are you trying to use?

Edit: I just did a quick test with theme that has no grid view specified and got the same error but ES didn't crash.

duiz

@ectoone I'm using the Carbon theme that was linked further up in this thread

EctoOne

@duiz Weird, I just tried it and it works fine. I'm not even getting the lvl1: OptionListComponent too narrow! error.
I'm only getting lvl1: NinePatchComponent missing texture! and I don't know where it comes from, I tried multiple themes and some have it and some not, but they all work. At least I can't see something broken.

A12C4

@duiz Sorry for the late reply but are you still experiencing issues enabling the grid view ?

duiz

@a12c4 yeah I gave up for now and will try again when it's been tested and established a bit more

A12C4

@duiz Can you write down in this topic what is your system config, what you tried to do exactly, step by step, and what happened, don't be afraid to be as detailed as possible. Sorry for the inconveniance, I'm trying to gather inputs from different people, to track down this bugs as I wasn't able to reproduce them.

paffley

Hey @A12C4 any new news on further production of grid view?

A12C4

@paffley Not really, haven't touched to my pi since months, just enjoying summer.

paffley

@A12C4 that's cool, yeh we've had a great summer aint we up to now! loving it!

One little question for ya.
In the current grid view, is there an option to keep it centered at all times or has that not applied as yet, I know you was talking about it previously. I was hoping to have the grid single horizontal and the selected item stays in the middle.

I was needing it as: horizontal - 5 items - 3rd item always in middle (apart from the start and end obviously)
I know @EctoOne created a theme where it stays centered but I believe his only had 3 items so not sure if possible (math) to use 5 items across.

EctoOne

@paffley it doesn't stay centered on my theme. it may look so, but when you start it, the top tile will be selected then it will stay in the middle until it reaches the end.

paffley

@ectoone said in ES Video within the grid view:

@paffley it doesn't stay centered on my theme. it may look so, but when you start it, the top tile will be selected then it will stay in the middle until it reaches the end.

Hi @EctoOne yeh that was the approach I was wanting, is it possible to have it horizontal across the screen with 5 items and it stays in the center when scrolling (after the first 2 goes from left to right)

paffley

@ectoone said in ES Video within the grid view:

@paffley it doesn't stay centered on my theme. it may look so, but when you start it, the top tile will be selected then it will stay in the middle until it reaches the end.

ahhh wait, that's cause its 3 down aint it, I got ya now sorry dood, not possible math wise with 5 items

ruckage

@paffley said in ES Video within the grid view:

Hi @EctoOne yeh that was the approach I was wanting, is it possible to have it horizontal across the screen with 5 items and it stays in the center when scrolling (after the first 2 goes from left to right)

I think I can answer that for you. It's exactly how I'm doing it on my snes/nes mini themes (single row of 5 tiles) and the selected game will be the centre icon except for at the beginning and end of the game list.

A12C4

@paffley @EctoOne @ruckage I will add an option so it is always centered (even when at the beggining or the end of the list).

Many theme creators have asked for it and would make a great usage of it, so I changed my mind.

paffley

Sweet thanks @ruckage

That's great news @A12C4 cant wait to test, can you let us know when its updated on dev build please. Thank you!