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9 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

@Vastarien I have fixed these issues with the CriticalZoneV2 - Default theme for 11.7-beta-3, which should be out later today.

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up!

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Yeah, it is the CriticalZoneV2 - Default. That and a readme are the only two things in that Themes folder.

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5 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:

Odd, I see. So the issue is that your Big Box Default theme is waaaaay out of date. Did you used to have a Big Box license? The Default theme is only updated when you actually start up Big Box, so I'm guessing that it just hasn't been updated in a long time.

I can get you an updated Default theme if needed. Let me know if you still need it after playing around with the theme creator.

No, I've never used Big Box before. I only DL'd Launchbox for the first time at version 11.4 on a different machine to check it out and then DL'd the latest release on a new machine the other night. So the theme I have is just what was created when I did a clean install of 11.6.

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@Jason Carr Thanks, I will try the Community Theme Creator.

Regarding the errors in Visual Studio, if I try to open up some of the views, it will fire a lot of errors (more than a dozen in some cases) which are all along the lines of:

* The name "TransitionPresenter" does not exist in the namespace "clr-namespace:Unbroken.Launchbox.Wpf.Transitions;assembly=Unbroken.Launchpad.Wpf"

* Assembly 'Unbroken.Launchbox.Wpf' was not found. Verify that you are not missing an assembly reference.

 

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A couple questions:

Can I work on a Big Box theme without a license? I intend to buy one, but I'd like to get into making a custom theme first and make sure it's something I can actually tackle before I commit. I realize I wouldn't be able to view it in Big Box without a license, but does Visual Studio provide some method for running the code and testing that things actually work?

On that note, I installed Visual Studio 2019 and attempted to open up the default theme (CriticalZoneV2 - Default), but there are A LOT of errors. I read in another thread that this theme is outdated, but there is no other option in my 11.6 install and it seems that the 11.4 install I had before that had no themes in that folder at all. If I intend to use Visual Studio, is there another starting point to help get the gist of laying this out? The video tutorial from Launchbox is like 4 years old and doesn't really get into any useful detail anyway. Any help is appreciated!