Flat Theme

greekmanx

@stackdefiler the way you wrote it seems easy I will try that when and if I make more changes.

greekmanx

so I am loving the theme the dark version btw only issue is at the bottom of each game list it chops off the name of the game.

Also I now agree with nismo I would get rid of marquees they don't match the theme as you see in my pic looks cleaner without them. Also I only don't have them in pic because I manually made this list for DS and didn't add any marquees don't want them and don't know where to find them

lilbud

@greekmanx Doesn't happen to me

Roxsteady

@greekmanx Ah I see. I only ask because in the video it showed the game title/logo on the top right. Universal XML Scraper so logo, images, box art are all in one.

greekmanx

@Roxsteady you mean the marquee? I am using MotionBlue Rom packs so he compiled the marquees, images, videos, and gamelist.xml I just sent them to my pi. With the exception of DS that is I am making that myself.

hooperre

@greekmanx Same thing for me. Happens with a few other themes (Simple) for me too. Found a fix for this? Mildly infurating.

greekmanx

@hooperre you mean the list cutting off if so no I have not found a fix it sucks but for now I live wish I knew why it did it

mattrixk

@greekmanx / @hooperre There are 2 things you can do to fix the gamelist getting cut off. First, open flat.xml and make one or both of these changes.

Change the <size> of the <textlist name="gamelist"> that is giving you trouble.
- eg: line 64 has <size>0.648 0.68</size>. The first number is the width of the gamelist, the second is the height. Both are in percent-of-screen-size. 1 is full width, 0.5 is half width and 0 is no width.
- Change the second number to one slightly smaller or larger and it will either hide the cut off item or show more of it (respectively).
- Remember to fix each of the gamelists that are getting cut off.
Add <lineSpacing> to the gamelist. This controls the space between lines (as a multiple of font height). The default is 1.5, so it would look like this: <lineSpacing>1.5</lineSpacing>.
- You can change that number to anything else. A higher number will increase the space between the lines and a lower number will decrease them.

Use either or both of these options to sort out your gamelists.

greekmanx

@mattrixk thanks man I changed line 172 to 0.64 and it is perfect which I assume you gave line 64 as an example because that is the non video gamelist I edited the video one and no more cutoff thanks for help.

mattrixk

@greekmanx Yes, line 64 is for Basic and Detailed Views. I wasn't sure if the same change would help both those and Video View, or if you would need to work them out separately.

I'm glad it worked out for you.

Nismo

@lilbud I have downloaded your latest version from github and now I have giant marquees on top left of the screen and are on top of everything.

Definetively you need to fix the theme placing marquees in the right place or moving it out from the screen to don't display them.

Edit: the problem is that there is not "md_marquee" entry inside video view in flat.xml... for some reason you removed it and broken the theme.

Also the right name for turbograph 16 folder it's tg16.

Nismo

For those who want to fix marquees in this theme open flat.xml and replace:

<view name="video">
		<video name="md_video">
			<pos>0.254 0.202</pos>
			<origin>0 0</origin>
			<size>0.185 0.327</size>
			<delay>0.0</delay>
			<default>./assets/default.mp4</default>
			<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
			<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
		</video>
	</view>

With:

<view name="video">
		<image name="md_marquee">
			<origin>0 0</origin>
			<pos>0.800 0.01</pos>
			<maxSize>0.19 0.10</maxSize>
		</image>
		<video name="md_video">
			<pos>0.254 0.202</pos>
			<origin>0 0</origin>
			<size>0.185 0.327</size>
			<delay>0.0</delay>
			<default>./assets/default.mp4</default>
			<showSnapshotNoVideo>false</showSnapshotNoVideo>
			<showSnapshotDelay>false</showSnapshotDelay>
		</video>
	</view>

lilbud

@Nismo would I have to remove the tag from each theme.XML?

Nismo

@lilbud I don't understand you... What tag? For doing what?

lilbud

@Nismo the marquee tag

Nismo

@lilbud I explained well, just replace in flat.xml that's all.

For NES I edited theme.xml inside nes folder to write short name "Nintendo NES" that way marquee is not on top of the name of that system.

I also correctly renamed turbografx 16 folder to "tg16" to fix that system was not themed.

greekmanx

@Nismo that is all I would do I like the marques.

Nismo

@greekmanx Yes, inside the flat theme folder there is a flat.xml file, just edit that file and replace the code with the one I provided a few posts ago, and save changes. Now marquees should display correctly (if you have them) and not giant logos on top of everything.

silviustro

I have attempted to install the theme on the latest version of retropie and all I get is the blank theme... I can't explain why, as I looked trough the flat.xml file and the syntax seems to be OK.

nickavv

I love this theme, except for the colors on the background of the system carousel. I created a fork that just has grey backgrounds there, in case anybody is interested in that modification. Everything else is the same great theme (great work lilbud)!

https://github.com/nickavv/es-theme-flat