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Thanks for the heads up about the settings dialog, I hadn't noticed that. I'll look into why that's not working and get a fix out when I'm able. Yes, in the meantime, you can manage settings manually through json files that are stored in your launchbox folder under Plugins > Eclipse > Settings. There are two setting files, EclipseSettings.json defines the main settings and CustomLists.json define any custom lists. It would probably be a little cumbersome to try to manage the settings through these files but it is definitely possible. Let me know if you run into any trouble trying to do it an I can help you with some of the syntax if anything isn't making sense or working as expected.

The theme is hard coded to get the background image first and if there isn't one it will then get the screenshot image and if not, it grabs the default background. One thing you could do to prioritize screenshots without any need for a code change is to set the screenshot image(s) you prefer in the launchbox background properties. From launchbox, tools > options, media > background priorities, scroll down and check the image you prefer like screenshot - gameplay, and use the move selected up button to move the image up to the top. Then when the theme code gets the background image it will get a screenshot if one exists and if not it will still get a background image. This would impact all themes though, not just this theme so I'm not sure this approach works for you. What's your display resolution? The way the theme is setup, the clear logos will scale uniformly to fit approx 28% of the monitor height. The laptop I do this on is old and is 1366x768, so my game logos are scale to approx 215 pixels tall. If your monitor is 1920x1080 the logos would scale to take up about 302 pixels.

I see the latest update to LaunchBox updates to a newer version of .net and replaced the XML data files with a SQLLite database. I’m not sure what will break with this theme since it’s been so long since I looked at the code but I have a feeling somewhere I’m reading an XML file or some Issue with the .net update may cause incompatibility. I’ll test and update things when I get a chance but if anyone has tested please let me know if your run into any issues!

Alrighty, for now I took care of #1. I've uploaded a new version (Eclipse.v.0.0.019) which has a new setting for the selected game details padding. You can access that setting via launchbox from Tools > Manage Eclipse on the Margin tab: The default value is 0 and the game details will be the same size as they were in version 18 of the plugin. Setting it to a value of 5 will look something like this: Setting it to a value of 10 will make the details really small: As for number 2, I will play around with it a bit more but for now the notes look really out of place to me so I will think on it. In the meantime, the source code is available so anyone is more than welcome to edit it to create a new version that shows the details however they see fit. For number 3, it is coded to use a video if available and if not it takes the background image and if no background image is available for a game then it will use the game's screenshot image. Here's an example of a game in my library that has no video and no background image but it does have a screenshot image: Are you not seeing screenshots when missing videos because you are seeing the prioritized background images? Were you saying you prefer to prioritize the screen shots over the background images or you're not seeing them at all?

Thanks for the kind words. #1 would require a bit of development, I don’t think it would be too complicated so I will look into adding a setting to set the size of those items. #2 also will require some development as well as a bit of design. Where are you wanting to see the notes? I remember trying to add them under the release date and star rating area and it didn’t look very good to me so I kept them off. I could include an option on page up/down to toggle them on screen like I did with the zoomed in box art, kind of like a pop up that you can toggle on or off? Or are you wanting to see the notes under the release date and star rating area? If so just on the game details screen when you’ve selected a game or on the main screen and on game details? Let me know and I can try some stuff. #3 I need to take a look at the code, I can’t remember now if there’s a configuration that would let that happen. Actually I thought it should show screenshots by default when there is no video. I’ll check to confirm.

Yep. You need to add the XAML as described above. I had to tinker around to get it to show up where I wanted it but it works.

Unfortunately I have been too swamped to spend a second thinking about this project and it’s not in a state where a new release would provide you with the value you’re looking for. Some day when my work is not so busy I will come back to this (maybe…hopefully). I do miss working on this but other responsibilities, ya know? The code is out there for anyone to extend as they like!

Hi there, glad you are enjoying it so far. Regarding the error, do you have an eclipse.txt file in your Launchbox folder with any details about the error? If so, please send it over, it may help me to figure out what is causing the error. I’ll see if I can figure out how to change the language in my computer to English Australia and whether I can reproduce the error.

Some ideas about displaying the game title I could add an option to include the game title somewhere in the main screen, maybe right under the logo and above the details. If the option is on, it would show the game title for every game and if it's off it wouldn't show the game title. I'm not a huge fan of this because I think adding the game title in the main view would look kind of messy. I could add a new function to the page up or page down options that lets you hit page up or page down and it would toggle between logo and title as text. I think a button to toggle between logo and title would be cool but I hate to give up one of the page up/down options. I could add an option to include the title on the game details screen. I think including in the game details isn't too bad since it wouldn't clutter the main interface and it's not too common to have a game you're not sure about, but if you're skipping game details then this wouldn't be ideal. I could add a custom field that you could specify on a game by game basis. If a game has the custom field with a value of true then it would show the title as text instead of the logo. This could work well if there's only a small handful of games to deal with but at that point it may make more sense to just create a custom logo with legible text.

Absolutely no worries, don’t hesitate to request changes, I will just add anything to the backlog and then I can get to it when I can get to it. Regarding adding the game titles for visibility where game logos are not clearly showing you the title, I’ve had the same thought to display the title somewhere. I feel adding the text kind of messes up the aesthetic of the theme. It does display the game title if there is no clear logo for the game so I need to figure Out a good looking design for showing both. This would be simple to add if I can just settle on the visual design.

Yeah this is still on my radar. It's the main feature I've been working on when I've had time to work on this project but time has been super limited. So far, I've got a new search option that opens an onscreen keyboard and when you input values into the keyboard, it will present a list of matching metadata values as possible filters. I need to take it further and allow you to select from the filters and have it filter the game list with the selected filters. Here's how it's looking at this time. I'm still working out the layout and how it should all be incorporated into the overall theme.

Glad it’s working for you @bigwhitebuddha. Would you be able to add some clarification on the request around the screen saver? When you say you’d like the screensaver to display on the Home Screen, could you show a screenshot of which screen you mean or help me with a description of the screen? It should display after the timer elapses on any screen but there may be a bug that I’m not aware of keeping it from displaying.

Super minor update, added a setting under Other, "Display eclipse options on escape". When checked it follows the previous default behavior so that when you press escape from the game list, it opens the side pane to let you select which metadata field you want to group lists. Uncheck this box and pressing escape will bypass this pane and go straight to the BigBox settings. I liked the idea of that side pane originally but I generally just display games by platform so I figured I'd get rid of it with an option.

@bigwhitebuddha I was able to put together the first three requests, I'll have to look into the one about the screensaver, didn't get time to look into that yet. You can toggle off the show options icon to hide the options icon You can toggle off the display featured game setting to skip the full screen featured game at the top of the list and just have it keep cycling upwards You can use the margin tab to increase or decrease the space between game images