Lambda beta 1.1.2

Thanks for this - I love minimal themes. Since this is a beta release, may I offer some suggestions? I've attached a screenshot of my setup, and there a couple of things I'd like to note.

• The first are video snaps. I have snaps for all my games, and in your theme, they show up in the top right. It works great, but if my snap is 16:9 aspect ratio, I get gray bars above and below the video. 4:3 snaps take up the full frame. Is there any way to ensure 16:9 videos don't have those bars?
• Second, is there any way to specify what details are shown in the text under each game thumbnail? I'd like to just have the game title and the year displayed, but I'm not sure where (or if) I can specify that.

Again, great theme, I love the clean style. Thanks!

 

24 minutes ago, tycho1974 said:

Second, is there any way to specify what details are shown in the text under each game thumbnail? I'd like to just have the game title and the year displayed, but I'm not sure where (or if) I can specify that.

40 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

I thought this section only applied to the Game Details window. If I uncheck unwanted details, then they'll disappear from both under the thumbnail and the Game Details section. Ideally, I'd like to keep those details in the side window, just not under the thumbnail...

11 minutes ago, tycho1974 said:

I thought this section only applied to the Game Details window. If I uncheck unwanted details, then they'll disappear from both under the thumbnail and the Game Details section. Ideally, I'd like to keep those details in the side window, just not under the thumbnail...

 

1 hour ago, tycho1974 said:

Second, is there any way to specify what details are shown in the text under each game thumbnail?

Sorry i thought this was referencing the screenshots in the game details.

The only option is to not have "show subline" active.

7 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Sorry i thought this was referencing the screenshots in the game details.

The only option is to not have "show subline" active.

Yes, that did the trick. All that's listed underneath the thumbnail now is the game title. If I had my druthers I'd also like to have the year down there, but this works. Thanks!

Great launchbox theme! Love it

10 hours ago, tycho1974 said:

Yes, that did the trick. All that's listed underneath the thumbnail now is the game title. If I had my druthers I'd also like to have the year down there, but this works. Thanks!

Yes I can confirm that the Game Details settings only apply to the details panel and "show subline" controls the info below the thumbnails. If you wish to hide the developer below the thumbnails you could change the Boxes Spacing "text lines to show" to 1 (with subline enabled), that will only show the year and platform in the subline. The only caveat is that there is one line less space available for game titles so long ones get cut off.  (I personally don't care much for developer info there but I left it there as padding between title and year/platform info.)

20 hours ago, tycho1974 said:

The first are video snaps. I have snaps for all my games, and in your theme, they show up in the top right. It works great, but if my snap is 16:9 aspect ratio, I get gray bars above and below the video. 4:3 snaps take up the full frame. Is there any way to ensure 16:9 videos don't have those bars?

I wish there was but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I'm not even sure if it's possible, it seems the video box has a forced 4:3 aspect ratio. But if someone with more XAML experience than me knows how to make the aspect ratio flexible, I'm open to suggestions...

EDIT (for devs): the issue is with determining the initial height of VideoControl before the video starts playing. The black bars can be made transparent but that won't solve the issue since it leaves empty space above and below the video.

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by shadowfire

8 hours ago, shadowfire said:

I wish there was but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I'm not even sure if it's possible, it seems the video box has a forced 4:3 aspect ratio. But if someone with more XAML experience than me knows how to make the aspect ratio flexible, I'm open to suggestions...

EDIT (for devs): the issue is with determining the initial height of VideoControl before the video starts playing. The black bars can be made transparent but that won't solve the issue since it leaves empty space above and below the video.

 

It does work if you set the video engine to Windows Media Player. Just remove the Height property of your video element and it will dynamically resize the video to fit in. Unfortunately this doesn't work with VLC at all.

2 hours ago, CriticalCid said:

It does work if you set the video engine to Windows Media Player. Just remove the Height property of your video element and it will dynamically resize the video to fit in. Unfortunately this doesn't work with VLC at all.

I have WMP set as my video player in LB, and I can confirm that this does in fact work. I removed the height property in line 124 of GameDetailsView.xaml, and both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio videos are showing no black bars. Screenshots attached.

Excellent theme.  Great job

Love your theme! Is there any way to switch the date displays from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy?

On 5/3/2020 at 1:10 AM, tycho1974 said:

I have WMP set as my video player in LB, and I can confirm that this does in fact work. I removed the height property in line 124 of GameDetailsView.xaml, and both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio videos are showing no black bars. Screenshots attached.

@CriticalCid @tycho1974 does it also work with Auto-Play Videos turned off in the View menu? My WMP is currently broken so I can't test that myself.

Unfortunately I can't implement it if it doesn't work with VLC but feel free to modify your own version.

(My code is the same btw. as in other LB themes and they all show black bars so maybe it's just a limitation.)

3 hours ago, Corkscrew said:

Is there any way to switch the date displays from mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy?

No, I don't think so... The date format is not handled by the theme layer but by Launchbox itself and as far as I know there's currently no option for date localization in Launchbox.

13 minutes ago, shadowfire said:

@CriticalCid @tycho1974 does it also work with Auto-Play Videos turned off in the View menu? My WMP is currently broken so I can't test that myself.

Unfortunately I can't implement it if it doesn't work with VLC but feel free to modify your own version.

(My code is the same btw. as in other LB themes and they all show black bars so maybe it's just a limitation.)

Yes it does work with auto-play videos turned off, just tested it.

Btw. I really love your theme. I've made a few modifications here and there for myself and now It's my new go to theme for LaunchBox. Great job!

2 hours ago, CriticalCid said:

Yes it does work with auto-play videos turned off, just tested it.

Btw. I really love your theme. I've made a few modifications here and there for myself and now It's my new go to theme for LaunchBox. Great job!

Agreed - After using it for almost a week now, it's become my favorite. Out of curiosity, what other modifications have you made?

14 hours ago, tycho1974 said:

Agreed - After using it for almost a week now, it's become my favorite. Out of curiosity, what other modifications have you made?

Nothing big. I've changed the position of the year + platform and the developer row, changed the video height to be dynamic and re-arranged some fields in the side panel.

1 hour ago, CriticalCid said:

Nothing big. I've changed the position of the year + platform and the developer row, changed the video height to be dynamic and re-arranged some fields in the side panel.

@CriticalCid Would you mind sharing your edited version?

Edited May 5, 2020 by CDBlue

On 5/2/2020 at 10:10 PM, tycho1974 said:

I have WMP set as my video player in LB, and I can confirm that this does in fact work. I removed the height property in line 124 of GameDetailsView.xaml, and both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio videos are showing no black bars. Screenshots attached.

Tycho, do you mind telling exactly what did you remove from line 124 (or sharing the xaml)? I tried with the entire height property, as well as specific fields in it, but I only got either an error of the theme, or the description text went over the video. Thanks!

1 hour ago, Kondorito said:

Tycho, do you mind telling exactly what did you remove from line 124 (or sharing the xaml)? I tried with the entire height property, as well as specific fields in it, but I only got either an error of the theme, or the description text went over the video. Thanks!

Sure! Here's the original line in the file:

<controls:VideoControl x:Name="VideoControl" Background="{StaticResource LD_VideoBackgroundBrush}" Visibility="{Binding VideoVisibility}" Margin="0,-10,0,5" Height="{Binding Path=ActualWidth, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Converter={StaticResource VideoWidthToHeightConverter}}"/>

And here's the modified line:

<controls:VideoControl x:Name="VideoControl" Background="{StaticResource LD_VideoBackgroundBrush}" Visibility="{Binding VideoVisibility}" Margin="0,-10,0,5"/>

Hope that helps!

Thanks @tycho1974; that is what I did previously. I tried copy/pasting your line just in case there was something different in it, but the same issue happens:

1 hour ago, Kondorito said:

Thanks @tycho1974; that is what I did previously. I tried copy/pasting your line just in case there was something different in it, but the same issue happens:

 

Weird. All I can suggest is that you make sure:

• You have WMP set as your video player inside LB
• That you have videos selected to show up in Game Details
• That a video for the game exists and is properly linked

Beyond this, I'm afraid I would be of no help, sadly.

 

 

Edited May 6, 2020 by tycho1974

5 minutes ago, tycho1974 said:

Weird. All I can suggest is that you make sure:

• You have WMP set as your video player inside LB
• That you have videos selected to show up in Game Details
• That a video for the game exists and is properly linked

Beyond this, I'm afraid I would be of no help, sadly.

Dude! I was sure I had WMP selected in both LB and BB, but maybe I changed it in LB to test something before and forgot to revert it back. That was it. Cheers and sorry for the back and forth. 

@shadowfire really nice theme, looks sexy and has little to no dead space (I use LB as list, not images, and with this theme I can see a lot of items). Thanks for sharing.

On 5/5/2020 at 5:21 PM, CDBlue said:

@CriticalCid Would you mind sharing your edited version?

I'm not sure if you would have any need for that as I specifically edited for my own setup in which I have tons of Custom Fields and made room for them. It probably wouldn't look as nice on other setups.

@tycho1974 @CriticalCid @Kondorito and others: I have found a workaround for the VLC video aspect issue which enforces a 16:9 video container. So 16:9 letterboxing is removed but  instead 4:3 are now pillarboxed. Maybe that's more acceptable?

I've also tweaked the metadata in the lower row to be a bit more space efficient. (Needs a Windows 10 test though since I've changed the stars/favorite assets font and size to Segoe MDL2 Assets. I'm still on Windows 7.)

P.S. Sorry @CriticalCid, I haven't thought about Custom Fields. I'll mark that down as an issue.

Edited May 9, 2020 by shadowfire