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User requested a Startup, Pause, and Shutdown theme to compliment the Pulse BigBox theme. So I decided to see how close I could get to the great design of that theme made by Juketsu. I am not a skilled or seasoned coder, more of a scratch type coder so behind the scenes may not be the prettiest. This was fun seeing how much of the BB theme I could decipher. Since the BB theme was done using the Community Theme Creator and that program uses some custom plugins I had to get creative to replicate some items.

The Startup theme's Startup view was modeled after Pulse's HorizontalWheels3GamesView and the Shutdown view was modeled after HorizontalWheels2GamesView. Overall layout, metadata, and some animations are all there from the BB theme. Only creative difference I took was using a red heart for the favorites logo. The BB theme uses the same blue star as the user rating.

Installation:

Download zip file and be sure to unblock the zip.

Simply place the PulseStartup folder inside your \LaunchBox\StartupThemes\ folder (Do NOT rename the folder).

Credit(s):

@Juketsu Pulse theme is his original design. The Startup theme uses his design and artwork.

NOTES:

1. This theme will stay up until Juketsu releases his version. If he is planning to do one.

2. Theme was only tested on a 16:9 and 4:3 aspect monitor.

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KaaMoS

Posted

Such a beautiful work.
It fits perfect with Pulse :) However I'm using The POC, but it also fits pretty well because of those fotns both themes use :)

Many, many thanks for your work!

Outline_Pro

Posted

it's great but i wish it had a spinning disk or game cart picture too maybe the front box art

Lito769

Posted

Hello, I love the look of this theme, but is it possible to teach me how to remove the black box where the screenshot would be, because I don't have those in my library and don't want them, so it makes this perfect startup theme look off in my setup, please get back to me, thank you!

Retro808

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10 hours ago, Lito769 said:

Hello, I love the look of this theme, but is it possible to teach me how to remove the black box where the screenshot would be, because I don't have those in my library and don't want them, so it makes this perfect startup theme look off in my setup, please get back to me, thank you!

Go into the \LaunchBox\StartupThemes\Pulse Startup folder and right click - edit the Default.xaml file (best option is to use Notepad++, but you can use Notepad).

Look for the lines pasted below and delete all the lines shown. Save the file and that should get you what you want. 

                <!-- SCREENSHOT IMAGE GRID -->
            <Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Panel.ZIndex="70">
                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="9*" />
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="50*" />
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="9*" />
                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <!-- SCREENSHOT IMAGE -->
                    <Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">
                        <Border Background="#E6060606">
                            <Image Source="{Binding SelectedGame.ScreenshotImagePath}" Margin="35,12" Stretch="Uniform" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" />
                        </Border>
                        <Border x:Name="BorderColor1" BorderBrush="#FF2D2E30" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="2.25" />
                    </Grid>
            </Grid>	

 

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