theme BarTop Theme BETA v.0.9.2

Maybe a gameview with clear logo too? Besides, the videos in some views are flattened in 16:9 screens.

@Freestate : I did not find any original and elegant design for a ClearLogo wheel. But I had this request. Perhaps I would give a separate view in that direction. For videos, normally the platform view have no ratio problem. But the games view have the standard video engine integration. (for now)   If you notice any problems, please, post a screenshot on the thread forum.

Is it possible to remove the top and bottom onscreen arrow indicators in the Platform and Game views through the XML?

1 minute ago, throwingmuse said:

Is it possible to remove the top and bottom onscreen arrow indicators in the Platform and Game views through the XML?

I assume it would be here:

 

            <!-- ANIMATED GIF ARROWS UP -->
            <Image gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/BarTop/Images/Theme/arrow.gif" Grid.Column="15" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.RowSpan="2" Opacity="0.5" />
            <!-- ANIMATED GIF ARROWS DOWN (WITH 180° EFFECT) -->
            <Image gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/BarTop/Images/Theme/arrow.gif" Grid.Column="15" Grid.Row="15" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.RowSpan="2" Opacity="0.5" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"  >
                <Image.RenderTransform>
                    <TransformGroup>
                        <ScaleTransform/>
                        <SkewTransform/>
                        <RotateTransform Angle="180"/>
                        <TranslateTransform/>
                    </TransformGroup>
                </Image.RenderTransform>
            </Image>

Yes, that's exactly it. Normally, I have annotated all XAML to make this kind of modification easier. You can delete entire blocks this way.

One other suggestion. I like the platform/game release dates on screen. However, I think the white text could benefit from an outline or shadow of sorts. Although it's not perfect, I worked this out:

 

            <!-- PLATFORM DATE -->
            <Viewbox StretchDirection="DownOnly" Stretch="Uniform" Grid.Column="20" Grid.Row="15" Grid.ColumnSpan="5" Grid.RowSpan="2" >
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedPlatform.ReleaseDate, StringFormat=yyyy}" Foreground="Black" FontFamily="Segoe UI Semibold" FontSize="65" TextAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Opacity="0.8"/>
            </Viewbox>
            <Viewbox StretchDirection="DownOnly" Stretch="Uniform" Grid.Column="20" Grid.Row="15" Grid.ColumnSpan="5" Grid.RowSpan="2" >
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedPlatform.ReleaseDate, StringFormat=yyyy}" Foreground="White" FontFamily="Segoe UI Semibold" FontSize="60" TextAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Opacity="0.6"/>
            </Viewbox>

Is there a better way to achieve a black outline for the white text rather than this crude method?

Edited November 17, 2016 by throwingmuse

how do you get it to look like your showcase example with the TV and the video inside it?  When I use this theme it's just a huge video and a wheel.

@damageinc86 : please read all the information I give on the download page. In addition to the theme, I uploaded a whole series of customized media for him.

Downloaded a bunch of the videos one by one, put in platform videos folder, tested with seting theme to have platform background video, and without.  They never showed up in any of the views, it was just the regular videos for launchbox huge with/without scanlines.  Oh well.  Launchbox just needs to let us put an image in front of a video, instead of having to hard encode a theme video.

@damageinc86 : Strange bug. 

• Your BigBox is update to the last v.7 beta ? 
• Did you setup WMP as video engine in BigBox setup ?
• Did you rename the video as the exact same name as your LaunchBox platform name ?

Tell me if it's work with this !

This is great, clean and simple, just what I was after. I do have a problem with it though and I dont know if its my end or not but the videos dont play, I can hear them but they only play if I go into the platform and then come back out, if I cycle the platforms and go back to the start, the video wont play but again, I can hear it.

Looks great! But no update for a year?

guessing this is dead?

I don't know, but I like so much this prohect.. I wish it continue

 

The Videos in the System Selection Screens are shown for half a second, but then they fade into black...

The Videos in the Game selction section work perfectly

Anyone knows whats wrong with that?

 

Love this theme for my bartop except if forces everybody that uses this to use the Nostalgia video set. If you have any other videos you want to use you can't because the videos are not centered and play behind the selection wheel. Thats a shame. Need a centered version of this theme.