Adding custom text on main menu emulationstation theme

[mmfsilva]

Hi all,

First off - unsure if it's this topic or the themes one, so apologies in advance.

I've been searching and experimenting with a way to add custom text to the main menu (system view), but so far no luck.

I'm currently trying to simply add two/three words to somewhere, anywhere at all in the main menu to see if this is possible.

I followed this thread here which had a solution where the theme's xml (in this case since I'm using pixel-metadata theme, is pixel.xml) was edited adding a new tag inside the system view. Here's what I came up with, but is not working:

(pixel.xml)

	<view name="system"> 
        ....
		<text name="customText" extra="true">
			<text>Hello World</text>
                        <pos>0.05 0.55</pos>
			<size>0.9 0.16</size>
			<color>bbbbbb</color>
			<fontPath>./path/to/.ttf</fontPath>
			<fontSize>0.050</fontSize>
		</text>
        ....
	</view>

I inserted this change directly in the file on /etc/emulationstation/.../themes/pixel-metadata/pixel.xml and rebooted the system, but no luck. Depending on which xml tags I would add, it would either break the theme, or do nothing at all. I would expect to see a "Hello World" somewhere on the main menu screen, but so far nothing.

P.S. - This is actually already a workaround for adding new text to the helpsystem tag, as that is actually what I initially attempted to do until I realized I couldn't override that.

Reference: EmulationStation THEMES.md

Thank you.

[mmfsilva]

I solved the issue. Apparently the order of the XML tags inside "system" is relevant. Looks like I was simply creating a new text behind the background... After moving it to below the background image tag, it finally showed up.
Here's the final code (after the background image tag)

<text name="by" extra="true">
		<pos>0.85 0.969</pos>
		<color>ffffff80</color>
		<fontPath>./art/font.ttf</fontPath>
		<fontSize>0.02</fontSize>
		<text>hello world</text>
</text>

Text tag reference on ES md documentation