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Good to know. Thanks for your assistance with this

After doing some digging in the changelogs I found out this was implements to the Change View as a feature improvement in version 12.5 Is there an official place I can download older versions of Launchbox? Thanks

In version 11 when assigning a Shortcut to Switch a Theme or Switch a View, and you'd press that Shortcut key, the Theme or View would just Toggle/Cycle through every time you pressed the shortcut. In version 12 it seems that everytime one presses the Shortcut, a popup list menu shows up for the either the Theme selection or the View selection, and you have to manually select the Theme or View you want then confirm. It no longer toggles through the Themes or Views without any popup menu. I tried going though all the Options and Settings to see if I was missing something, am I missing something? Or is this the new standard behavior for switching Themes and Views? Thanks Edit - Forgot to Add the Screenshots below. The "Popup" screen is what I wanna avoid - and go back to the behavior of just cycling through the views/themes without the screen

Thank you so much @Retro808 can't believe I missed that

Hello, I am putting the finishing touches on my custom theme. But I cannot find a way to edit the exit screen of a game that shows "Game Over". Want to edit the color, font, background etc. I saw on a post here from a while back that apparently the default theme has a shutdown.xaml file. But I can't seem to find it in the default theme or any of the other community themes. Tried doing a search within system and style theme files to find it and can't seem to locate the code. If anyone can point me towards its location would be much appreciated thanks! nick

When launching a Nintendo 3DS game from BigBox, it opens in Citra perfectly in fullscreen, but if I want to access to the "Game Pause" screen via my Controller hotkey, it doesn't show the "Game Pause" screen automatically. I have to Alt+Tab to get to it. The interesting thing is that the Game Pause screen actually opens as an extra "Big Box" Window. This works flawlessly with Dolphin and RetroArch but for some reason cannot get it to work with Citra. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Hey @C-Beats I do indeed confirm it has been resolved! I'm so excited and happy about 11.10's new views and thankful to you and @Jason Carr for your constant follow-up and diligence. I genuinely had a fun time troubleshooting with you guys! Looking forward to designing my first theme for the community and If I come across anything else I'll let you know, thanks again!

Hey @C-Beats I have had a chance to test the beta 2 update in regards to the Grid Jump issue. The issue has unfortunately not been resolved. But the good news is that some changes have happened, which could point to the source of the problem. Change # 1: The good news is that now a Grid with 15 Games no longer jumps (it did in Beta 1) as you can see below: b.mov Change # 2: The bad news is that now a Grid with 10 Games is jumping (it did not in Beta 1, and it also did not do this in final release of 11.10) as you can see below: a.mov Finally the problem persists (as it did with Beta 1 and final release of 11.10) with a number under 10 games, like 9, as you can see below: c.mov I hope those differences can help, let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to try out!

Awesome! Will check out to see if it resolves the NavigationRows jump issues with specific number of games. Thanks

That's so strange? Are you using the Property SelectedItemZPosition in the CoverFlow? It has to have a relatively larger value than ItemZPosition like below relative to CameraZPosition? And it's still not working? CameraZPosition="2" ItemZPosition="2" SelectedItemZPosition="2.5"

Honestly am torn between v4 and v4.2? I love the contrast of v4. Maybe in v4.2 if the red space is increased a little bit along the x axis? As it goes just a tiny bit beyond the midpoint, it might look a bit better closer to 2/3 of the way along the x-axis cause it's all red? (The effect is less visible in v4 cause of the white contrast on the left).

the eternal battle between form and function. It's a tough decision but from what I can tell going through this thread and previous versions, it seems like the majority aren't bothered by the lack of text list view. Though yes it would be nice to have. I guess the real question is over the long term which would be more pleasing/give the most utility. Also I think a huge bonus is the WallGamesView grid, that was such a highly requested feature because it gives a very good zoomed out view of everything, one could argue, philosophically similar to what a text view does (a little bit). My vote is still between TGV1 and 3, but would be happy with anything that comes out even 4!

It's my pleasure @viking! I'm definitely voting TGV3 after your latest mockups! It looks amazing. As for the Platform3 mockup below, yeah I didn't even think about the code when I did the mockup haha sorry about that. But I did try and dig up some xaml properties for quite a bit and tried a few things but have come short. Maybe @C-Beats can point us in the right direction? Is there a way to set selected="false" to a Desaturated property? Or reduced opacity on for the non-selected items on the CoverFlow? If it's hard to be done by code or not possible, I think I may have a couple workarounds I may test tonight For Opacity: create a Rectangle PNG image (578px by 2160px) at the exact size of the white selector area, that is the same color as the off-white background with a gradient transparency at exactly location of the middle selected logo. So having 2 gradient points and 3 photoshop bucket markers. Like this when the logo wheel is turning, the transition from the transparent non-selected version to its selected fully opaque version is very smooth due to the gradient overlay. Check out the file I attached below and gradient points set at 35% vertically and 65% vertically, like this the space between 35 to 65 allows any sized selected logo to fully appear but at the same time creating the faded out non-selected logos. For saturation I'm gonna try something similar with a couple extra steps in the code, but it may not work at all, I'll report back. Merci encore!

Salut viking ca va? Love all the work you've been doing. Just wanted to chime in with my opinion on the TextGamesView My vote definitely goes to TextGamesView1 or TextGamesView3. I think the decision is difficult because both are really nice obviously but I think for TGV1 (oh le train) it's probably better when one is sitting close to a smaller screen like on your PC monitor, but with TGV3 it looks much better on a TV and those Context Mockups you made on the TV really helps to visualize that. Since I'm gonna be using it mainly on my TV (I don't know if there are numbers on what percentage of BigBox users are TV vs Monitor) but that could help in the decision also. But yeah I'm probably leaning more towards TextGamesView3 because of that reason. I think the only thing that could be cool to try out with TGV3 would be to find a solution to not having the blurry video to fill that space under the video if it's in 4:3. I know it's difficult because to fill that space with 4:3 is hard. So I tried different solutions, but I think what could potentially be a good candidate would be to actually take a cue from TGV1 and give it some more breathing room and reduce the size of the 16:9 space so that the video actually aligns with the text above on the vertically. Like this the "blurry" 4:3 behind the video would actually not feel so cramped. It could also work great for regular 16:9 videos as I did a quick mockup below. Maybe if all videos were 16:9 then keep it stretched out as it is is good, but yeah this might be a good solution for both, what do you think? My vote in any case goes to TGV3, but if either TGV3 or TGV1 make it, would be amazing! Finally about PlatformWheels3 , it seems like it has been voted out/discarded. I may be too late, but just wanted to say I absolutely love it! I know what you mean with it seeming a bit off, and I agree, so I tried to play around with something. I think a huge difference helped when I removed the shadow, as most of all your other stuff don't have shadows. And I reduce the opacity of non-selected platform clear logos as well as their saturation and it could be an idea? If at some point in the future you decide to bring it back. Cannot wait to check out the new features and views once they're out. Thanks again for your amazing work!

awesome. will do when the next push is out! Also forgot to confirm that I also have the missing icons in LaunchBox

Hey @C-Beats Was able to go through the fixes you guys put out. This is what I found: The below point has been confirmed fixed from my end: The below point has been confirmed fixed from my end: Unfortunately this issue below has not been fixed, I'm assuming this is "Grid jumping" when selecting items in a grid: If the total games I have are 6, 7, 8, 9 or 15 total games the whole grid jumps up/down by 1 row. If I have any other amount of total games like 5, 10, 12, 14 etc then behavior is normal and as expected. You can see the behavior from the Video No. 1 below. In Video No. 2 I show the desired behavior of it working correctly by simply adjusting the amounting of games for the same platforms. I also included my WallGamesView.xaml if you want to try and replicate it from your end. Thanks 1.mov 2.mov WallGamesView.xaml

Amazing, thanks so much @C-Beats for remembering and notifying me ! You guys work fast, wasn't expecting to be able to test everything so soon. Will do that as soon as I wake up tomorrow morning (European time here). Will update you guys tomorrow. Wish you all a great evening!

Awesome. will do. I tried to solve for the maths to guess what actually went wrong behind the scenes for fun. After getting into prime numbers and stuff I gave up

hey @C-Beats Just wanted to give a little update. It might be a moot point as you stated you have already fixed this in development as we speak, but thought I'd just update my findings just in case. I originally stated: "... if the Total amount of Games in the WallView is equal to 6, 7, 8 or 9 Games when placing the selector on that 2nd row the whole 2 rows jump down together." I have now found that this also includes 15 Games. I included 2 videos below showing a grid with 14 games (no jumps) and one with 15 games (jumps). Thanks 1.mov 2.mov

hey no problem glad I could help! One thing I'd like to point out @fawkesyeah : 1. You said you changed the Orthographic camera position from 0,0,5 to -1,0,5. Try to change that back to 0,0,5 as from my experience it can affect the behavior of the grid different the more games are added/removed. the only thing you should be changing to adjust the view spacing for a cleaner one-size fits all should be the Width property within the orthographic camera. Try it that way and see if you can get the same result by keeping 0,0,5. 2. To have the initial screen start with rows at the top you need to add a property called NavigationRow or NavigationRows="1" I forgot which one it is I'm not on my PC right now. It should be in the documentation PDF that's included in LaunchBox/Themes/ 3. To disable the fading you need to delete the lines that mention the Style Trigger for xxxIsRow="boolean" and opacity="0.2" or something like that as I recall. You can also change the border selector color within that same style trigger noted just above. You can look up "hex color code" online and find the color you want and just plug that in where it says "white" I think is the default. Hope this helps!

Yes you can do that but you will have to open the .xaml file. Go to the following folder on File Explorer: LaunchBox/Themes/ and here duplicate the Default folder and name it something you'd recognize Go into BigBox and in Manage Themes load the newly created folder name it should appear there Go back into the File Explorer and under the new Folder name you gave the duplicate go to Views so it should be like this: LaunchBox/Themes/NewName/Views/WallView.xaml and Right-Click open with Notepad Then do a Find in Notepad and search for coverFlow:flowcontrol there you should be able to add within the brackets how many columns and rows you want by changing the number and you can change the spacing X,Y by changing the numbers Once you change everything in Notepad just save the file and quickly go back into BigBox and reload the game view and the changes should be updated You can go back and forth doing this until you're happy with the results Hope this helps

Can anyone help with the syntax/code of adding a change to opacity for non-selected games in the CoverFlow view? I am nearly done with my custom theme for the new 11.10 but the default non-selected CoverFlow games are too dark for the white background so would like to reduce opacity to around 0.33. I tried using <coverFlow:FlowControl.OpacityMask><Brush> as well as Style Triggers but keep getting errors. Is there a simpler way to do this? Thanks a lot! <coverFlow:FlowControl x:Name="FlowControl" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Opacity="1" ImageType="Boxes" VisibleCount="10" PageSize="0" CameraZPosition="3" CoverFactory="{Binding CoverFactory}" RenderTransformOrigin=".5,.5" > <coverFlow:FlowControl.RenderTransform> <TransformGroup> <RotateTransform Angle="0" /> <ScaleTransform ScaleX="1" ScaleY="1" /> <SkewTransform AngleX="0" AngleY="0" /> </TransformGroup> </coverFlow:FlowControl.RenderTransform> </coverFlow:FlowControl>

haha! Really you guys are the best. Rare to come across such an awesome and passionate group of people!

It would be my pleasure @C-Beats Anything you guys need I'm here to help!

The new WallView Grid for Games works great, safe one possible problem. The new WallView with a coverFlow:FlowControl property NavigationRows="1" similar to @faeran 's theme POC theme works great by placing the first games at the top of the screen rather than the middle, but does have unexpected behavior as noticed by @Bedwyr in his last point in this post What I have found is that if the Total amount of Games in the WallView is equal to 6, 7, 8 or 9 Games when placing the selector on that 2nd row the whole 2 rows jump down together. This does not happen on any other amount of Total Games even if there are 11, 12, 13 or 14 Games (Adding 5 games to the above malfunctioning number so that they are the same on the 3rd row). So this only happens on the 2nd row (and not the 3rd or 4th or 5th rows etc). I have included a video below to show what I mean. I compare the GameCube/SNES Games proper behavior to that of the Wii and 3DS jumping up rows because they each have between 6-9 games. I double checked for each number of total games that exhibit this behavior and have found it only happens with anywhere from 6-9 games. If I add a 10th game to either platform it works properly. Can anyone reproduce this behavior? Code: <coverFlow:FlowControl x:Name="FlowControl" Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" SelectedScale="1.15,1.15" Columns="5" Rows="3" NavigationRows="1" ItemSpacing="0.35,0.35"> <coverFlow:FlowControl.Camera> <OrthographicCamera Position="0,0,5" LookDirection="0,0,-1" NearPlaneDistance=".01" FarPlaneDistance="1000" Width="14"/> </coverFlow:FlowControl.Camera> Untitled.mov