Big Details 2.3

1 hour ago, kobaturtle said:

@faeran also noticed that poped out system panel randomly uses clear logo rather than fanart as background

It does not occur with game panel

If I had to guess it's something to do with your image priorities. I would go into your options and see if any image groups are amiss.

that was my first guess so I restored default image priorities. Same behavior

40 minutes ago, kobaturtle said:

that was my first guess so I restored default image priorities. Same behavior

I think I know what it is. I'm using a different background binding that may be tied to settings in Big Box. In Big Box go to Options > Images > and make sure to turn off the options:

• Use Platform Device Image Backgrounds
• Use Platform Clear Logo Backgrounds

It worked! Thank you!

Hi again

 

I'm trying to edit some themes (I use desktop version with my laptop and BigBox with SteamDeck) but I don't really know how to program, so I'm just messing around.

Right now, I have edited the PlatformFiltersDetails to change the sizes of last played game, but there is an empty space I don't know how to edit:

 

Below The platform clear logo and above lastplayed/mostplayed/random there is some space I would like to be filled with the clear logo, so it shows bigger

 

Does anyone know which value should I change?

Whatever I change it affects everything and that space in between does not change

 

Thanks

 

EDIT:

There's probably a cleaner way thay what I've done, but it works

Edited June 6, 2023 by SolarisSpell

Love this theme so far, but I'm having a problem with it displaying Videos. They are downloaded as I have checked the game media, but I cant seem to find them anywhere in the details section. Is there something I need to enable?

On 6/17/2023 at 2:24 PM, Biffaboy said:

Love this theme so far, but I'm having a problem with it displaying Videos. They are downloaded as I have checked the game media, but I cant seem to find them anywhere in the details section. Is there something I need to enable?

Nothing much different than other themes. They would show up in the media carousel when you press the media button.

You could potentially have videos turned off. Go into Tools > Options > Visuals > Game Details and make sure Show Videos is turned on.

 

Is there a way to offset the background image by a certain percentage upward?  Usually the most important part of an image is always about 1/3 from the top (rule of thirds); not the direct top, middle, or bottom.

13 hours ago, zombob said:

Is there a way to offset the background image by a certain percentage upward?  Usually the most important part of an image is always about 1/3 from the top (rule of thirds); not the direct top, middle, or bottom.

Yeah maybe. I'll give it a shot. I did play with the different alignments before, but it really made no difference in where that background image was placed. It was always equally as bad (or good depending on how you want to look at it) across a user's library on average.

I'll give it a shot though.

3 hours ago, faeran said:

Yeah maybe. I'll give it a shot. I did play with the different alignments before, but it really made no difference in where that background image was placed. It was always equally as bad (or good depending on how you want to look at it) across a user's library on average.

I'll give it a shot though.

For 1080p monitor you would want to crop between 150 - 180 lines off the top.

Has anyone had this error using this theme?

1 hour ago, Spacedeck said:

Has anyone had this error using this theme?

The error seems to indicate you are having file access issues.

How did you install the theme, was it through LaunchBox's Theme Manager, or did you download it from the forum?

14 minutes ago, faeran said:

The error seems to indicate you are having file access issues.

How did you install the theme, was it through LaunchBox's Theme Manager, or did you download it from the forum?

Tried both ways.  Other themes seem to work without error.

3 hours ago, Spacedeck said:

Tried both ways.  Other themes seem to work without error.

Interesting. Just from how themes fundamentally work, they don't determine file access issues. I did a quick test on a build that hadn't downloaded the theme before, and seemed to work just fine.

My guess is this. The line it's referring to in the error is the default background graphic. The theme is trying to display an image from a specific location, and Windows is telling you that access to that location is denied (for whatever reason). If you want to troubleshoot reasons why this could be let me know, as they are plenty, and it's something you'd have to investigate on your side.

I've made a quick change to how it's accessing that file in the following 2 files. I'm curious if it makes any difference if you copy and paste these into your LaunchBox\LBThemes\Big Details\Views folder, and then open LaunchBox.

Views.7z

No difference using them files.  It's strange, I can install and use your other themes Neptune and Default Plus and no errors come up.  The error shows up when I first switch between platforms. Once I close it, it's fine until I switch platforms again.

If it couldn't access the default graphic, wouldn't that also be the case for all the other themes in the same location?

31 minutes ago, Spacedeck said:

No difference using them files.  It's strange, I can install and use your other themes Neptune and Default Plus and no errors come up.  The error shows up when I first switch between platforms. Once I close it, it's fine until I switch platforms again.

If it couldn't access the default graphic, wouldn't that also be the case for all the other themes in the same location?

Only for themes that require a theme specific image to be called. Not a lot of LaunchBox themes have that tbh, so it's very likely you would never run into this issue except for Big Details.

Was the error exactly the same for you, or different? Maybe you can take a screenshot.

 

It appears to have created two additional lines at "at System.IO..." in the error when using the files you gave me.

19 minutes ago, Spacedeck said:

It appears to have created two additional lines at "at System.IO..." in the error when using the files you gave me.

Here's one last try. If this doesn't work, you may unfortunately have to deal with your file access issues, whatever they are. Well, if this one doesn't work I could strip part of the theme out for you and it would most likely work. You just wouldn't be able to update the theme in the future if I ever end up releasing an update for it.

PlatformFiltersDetailsView.7z

14 minutes ago, faeran said:

Here's one last try. If this doesn't work, you may unfortunately have to deal with your file access issues, whatever they are. Well, if this one doesn't work I could strip part of the theme out for you and it would most likely work. You just wouldn't be able to update the theme in the future if I ever end up releasing an update for it.

PlatformFiltersDetailsView.7z 19.28 kB · 0 downloads

Whatever you have done with this file has done the trick!  I'm no longer receiving the errors anymore! Thank you!

I just noticed something else.  My image groups don't work with this theme.  Again, changing theme makes it a non issue.

I have my priorities set to show the cabinets in the screenshot section, although they don't appear with this theme.  They don't appear if I refresh the images neither, the only way I've got them to show is by having the game selected, going to Menu > Tools > Options and clicking ok.  Although that's only temporary, as if I change game and then click back on the game, the images are gone again.

 

 

Edited November 15 by Spacedeck

2 hours ago, Spacedeck said:

I just noticed something else.  My image groups don't work with this theme.  Again, changing theme makes it a non issue.

I have my priorities set to show the cabinets in the screenshot section, although they don't appear with this theme.  They don't appear if I refresh the images neither, the only way I've got them to show is by having the game selected, going to Menu > Tools > Options and clicking ok.  Although that's only temporary, as if I change game and then click back on the game, the images are gone again.

 

 

That's interesting. Themes cannot directly influence what shows up in the carousel, so that's very strange. There's absolutely no code in the theme itself other than saying "show image carousel here", and LaunchBox itself takes care of the rest. 

I did a quick test and, of course arcade cabinets show up in the carousel on my end, so if I had to make a guess, it's probably related to the exact same file access issue that we kind of side-stepped with that theme change.