Jason Carr

Beta 13 is out now with the following: Minor fixes for the built-in CriticalZone V2 - Default theme Updated translations New GamesCount property for Big Box themes now works for the TextFiltersView as well I'm hoping this will be the final beta with the official release tomorrow morning.

Unfortunately that's probably as small as you're going to get it for the moment. Back when I implemented it I ran into various issues when allowing it smaller, so that was the limit.

I honestly don't know, but I'm thinking it might be done by some other themes. Maybe Grila's ComixBox for instance?

The Startup Load Delay setting in Edit Emulator goes up to 30 seconds. You shouldn't be adjusting the Minimum Startup Screen Display Time in the general options, but rather the Startup Load Delay setting when editing the Retroarch emulator.

Still can't figure this out. I tried adding the image to a game in my collection and it shows up just fine in the sidebar. However, it could be that the forums are changing the image somehow, idk. Either that or the issue is not related to the image itself, but rather something else. Not really sure where to go from here, honestly, as I can't really get your entire collection with media. What is the file name of that image?

Thank you all. All updated for the next beta. Planning to put out one more beta today and then hopefully the official release tomorrow.

@ForsakenZaroc They should all be supported already. You can use the Steam import, and the Windows import should work for the rest.

Beta 12 is out now with a simple addition of allowing the ImageVideoView in the Big Box TextFiltersView, and translation updates.

@Retrofrogg Interesting. It looks like maybe it's trying to put the image there but it can't. Maybe the image is a weird JPG format or slightly corrupted? Can you post that particular image here?

No problem! Thanks for this; I'll get it into the next beta. I'll get this in as well. There is a single new item in the Strings file that Claudio pointed out (it was missing and not receiving any translations). It's no big deal either way though if you guys want to translate it for this version or not; it can wait until the next release.

You can embed another view, but unfortunately, as the view model in the code (my code) doesn't have a property for the achievements view model, it wouldn't be bound to any data, so it wouldn't be useful. I would just have to add a property to the games views to allow it. It might need some tweaking on my part though because it currently shows all the achievements.

Yes, the default theme no longer has the Styles folder. That's unrelated to the other themes. Styles folders are not being deleted in beta 11. I will review your theme, but it might take me a few days.

Yes, the download speed could be improved at least a small amount by combining the files together into zips. The problem is that then every zip would need to be extracted on the destination computer, but more importantly, they would have to be dynamically compressed/copied on the server for each request, which would likely bring the server to a halt considering the number of users downloading images at any one time. So unfortunately I think then we'd have a different problem on our hands.

Oh wait, or did you manually remove the Styles folder @wallmachine?

You may have ignored a majority of the betas, but unless I'm completely missing something, a previous 9.4 beta other than beta 10 or 11 removed the Styles folder. As best I can tell, beta 10 and 11 cannot do that. I tested over 70 themes, so I'm very sure of that. Regardless, without a backup, we're in the same boat anyways. The code should all be there in the views files, but the theme was unfortunately left in a semi-invalid state from a previous beta. I'm very sorry for the trouble there; I never recommend using betas without backups (especially when developing themes), but I understand how it would be easy to end up in this situation. As far as the actual problem, I'm guessing some styles just aren't being applied properly, but I don't have the code. If you want to send me the theme I'll take a look to see if I can figure it out.

@wallmachine The latest betas actually *stopped* removing the Styles files and folder. It must've happened from a previous beta. Unfortunately I'm guessing you're left with a version of the theme that didn't migrate properly. Do you have a backup of it anywhere?

@wallmachine Ah, I see. I didn't realize you had manually moved things. Unfortunately it looks like you got caught in the crossfire of confusion while I figured this stuff out (sorry for that). As it turns out, we ended up keeping the styles files, just manually referencing them. See here: So you can keep your styles files (or add them back) and just manually reference them like I do in the above post. My guess as to what's going on with the above is that somehow there are styles that are somehow not being applied.

@wallmachine Try removing the 9.4.5.txt file in the theme folder; it could be a relic from a previous beta. If that doesn't work, I'll need you to send me the theme so I can figure out what's wrong, along with details as to what's happening.

Beta 11 is out now with some translation updates and fixes, as well as the HorizontalScrollableTextBlock control described here: The current plan is to release 9.4 on Monday or Tuesday.

Hello all, @Maddoc1007 pointed out to me that the ScrollableTextBlock control wasn't working as expected when converting it over from the HelperControl version. This is because I hadn't realized that there were significant differences between the existing ScrollableTextBlock control in Big Box and @NJDave71's HelperControl version. As of 9.4-beta-11, which I just put out, there are now two available versions of this control: ScrollableTextBlock - The same control as what used to be included in Big Box, used for vertical scrolling text HorizontalScrollableTextBlock - The control from @NJDave71's HelperControl, used for horizontal scrolling text Sorry for the confusion on this. I've updated the examples in the first post of this topic to match the correct new usage. When converting your themes over to use the built-in scrollable text block control instead of the HelperControl version, you'll need to use HorizontalScrollableTextBlock instead of ScrollableTextBlock for the tag element.

Thank you all; beta 11 is out now with all of the above translations updated. @Opak Generally, compressing JPG and PNG files in zips (or even 7z files) doesn't compress them much at all, since they're already highly compressed and optimized. Compression works very well on some types of data, but not very well on others. You can do a simple test just by trying to compress some images and you'll notice that it doesn't save much space at all.

@RULLUR I finally just took a look at the data you sent me; unfortunately I'm not seeing any delays with your SNES platform. My best guess is that maybe it's media-related, but it's hard to say without having all your media. If you want to dive in deeper, you could try temporarily removing all your SNES media to see if it makes a difference.

Okay, I'm guessing maybe memory usage could be improved for systems with low amounts of RAM if the user ends up staying on a single screen for a long time. Admittedly our testing has always involved switching between views regularly, as that's a more common use case. I will add that to my list to review; unfortunately I can't make it a high priority for the moment because it's less than the recommended memory requirements (8 gigs) and isn't a common use case, but hopefully I can look at it relatively soon. Per VLC, it is often more taxing on hardware than Windows Media Player. The primary reason we recommend it is that it plays all types of videos out of the gate, but Windows Media Player needs third-party codecs to be installed to play many of the videos. It sounds like your system is just beneath the recommended specifications (though I don't know what they are exactly). To be honest I would not consider a GTX 770 to be beefy these days, as the card is almost 6 years old. I'm guessing that CPU and RAM limitations are more coming into play though than the video card, though I can't say for sure.

@eatkinola That error appears to be an issue with the DirectX install. I have no idea why that would just suddenly appear as an issue, but maybe try re-running the LaunchBox installer, and make sure that the DirectX portion of the installer completes successfully (the part that requires UAC admin access). Otherwise, you could try using Microsoft's DirectX installer. @RULLUR Delays can occur when loading up details (or really anything in LaunchBox) if the system is having trouble keeping up, or another operation is taking priority. Nothing has changed for the latest betas, so it must just be caused by another operation.

It's possible that it's somehow related to the latest beta, but I really doubt it as I didn't change anything related to that. I would first try downgrading to beta 8 to see if it fixes it (you'll find a beta 8 installer in the LaunchBox\Updates folder). Most likely a driver or something like that changed on your system, though I can't say for sure.