Jason Carr

Use the settings interface in LaunchBox, not the XML file, and just change the aspect ratio to make it wider and less taller. You will have to play with it.

Yeah, CoverFlow refers to the views that use the big images that flip.

You would adjust the aspect ratio so that it isn't so tall. It's best not to manually update the settings XML file.

Nothing has changed in this regard, so I suspect that it must be a driver issue of some sort. Is this a new issue for you? What version were you using previously (before upgrading to the beta) that you confirmed it was working on?

@Bedwyr A better place to adjust it is in the emulator settings, the Startup Load Delay slider.

You had previously said you were using CoverFlow, which is different than the clear logo wheels. There's a huge difference in memory usage between the CoverFlow views and the clear logo wheels. In all blunt honesty, I don't understand how that proves anything at all (it really doesn't). Regardless, there were some VLC-related things that were fixed that could possibly be improved and use less memory now; I'm not sure if you're using VLC or Windows Media Player for your video playback engine, but it would be worth trying the latest beta (9.4-beta-10) to see if it makes any difference.

Hey all, we're ready to get everything translated for 9.4. I think the changes should be fairly minimal for this go-around (but I could be forgetting something). Thank you all so very much. I'm looking to put out the official release on this coming Monday or Tuesday. @Opak @dukeemu @cyanjiang @Bardock @MajKSA @gamehacker @Cauptain @Kondorito @Nyny77

Beta 10 is out now with some various minor fixes and some of the missing HelperControl controls, which I had previously integrated but somehow they got excluded from the project (probably a previous source control issue). I'm sending this version off to the translators; I may get more in yet, but we're looking to put out the release this coming Monday or Tuesday.

Go ahead and zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder and I'll review your SNES stuff to see if there's something I'm missing.

Apparently RemoveNewLineConverter was excluded as well. Thanks for pointing that out @faeran.

I see. Somehow I managed to exclude the file from the project; sorry for that. I've fixed it for the next beta, which should be out tomorrow.

@xevious1974 Good to know. How would you properly translate "Prioritize Game Theme Video"?

It does indeed. Let me know if you see any issues with it.

You should be safe just continuing to create the theme. The first time you load it up with a Big Box 9.4 beta (or later on the official release), it should automatically update itself just fine. Assuming everything is working properly, then you shouldn't have any issues. It might be a good idea to test the theme with 9.4-beta-9, however, to make sure everything is working.

Thank you Claudio; I have this updated for beta 10 (should be out later today or tomorrow).

Sorry to hear. I currently don't have any other solution (other than more RAM, or using a different view). The game clear logo wheels should be much less RAM-intensive.

@RULLUR Sadly I still haven't been able to replicate any of those issues, but the Big Box performance improvements in beta 9 may help.

Hello all, first off, I have to apologize, but I'm changing the strategy slightly for the "removing the styles" changes I had posted before. I spent the better part of a week banging my head against the wall trying to get all the themes to upgrade properly automatically, only to discover that I was "doing it wrong". As it turns out, the issue with the Styles portion of the themes affecting other themes was not the styles XAML files themselves, but rather the fact that they were referenced globally instead of directly from the views that use them. So the good news is that we can continue to use styles, and all we have to do is explicitly reference them instead of removing them completely and copying their code directly into the views. For example: <UserControl.Resources> <ResourceDictionary> <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Unified Redux/Styles/HorizontalListBoxStyle.xaml" /> </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries> </ResourceDictionary> </UserControl.Resources> This way, we can keep all our styles files, so long as the views that use them directly reference them like the above. And thankfully, it was relatively easy to automatically update all existing themes to use the new method. I've literally tested every single theme available in the forums download section, and sans for a couple of themes that seemed to be slightly broken from the get go, every single one is working. Unfortunately since the upgrade strategy has changed though, you will need to delete and re-download any themes that you want to automatically update using the new method. Most themes (but not all) were still working properly with the old method, but this new method is recommended before making changes and submitting a new version of your theme. Any themes in your collection (that were not previously upgraded using the old method) will be upgraded upon startup of Big Box 9.4-beta-9. I do apologize for how messy I've made this, but I'm finally confident that we have a good solution here, and it should make everyone happy because all the issues are fixed without forcing any major restructuring. I previously hadn't realized the impact that removing the styles would have on some of the themes. Thank you all once again; I plan to put out the 9.4 release early next week, so that is when these theme changes will be available for everyone. @faeran @Mr. RetroLust @RetroHumanoid @wallmachine @eatkinola @bbweiners @keltoigael @Jack. @y2guru @whoozwah @SNAK3ATER @Rincewind @CriticalCid @shro2016 @broskiplays @Grila @NJDave71 @Hexxxer @PhillsDoodles @Zombeaver @Omen @Cookz718 @viking @OrochiMishima @nosh @ea4492 @Maddoc1007 @vsilvalopes @damageinc86 @walter10h @skainlurmis @Scottad @Nyny77 @Sithel @Akezhar @Thanos Reigns

Alright, beta 9 is out. The past week has been quite a trip development-wise; I set out to automatically upgrade all the themes, and then ran into a million hitches. The theming strategy has been changed slightly; I'll be updating the themes post here with the details shortly: The good news is I did find quite a few ways to optimize things and speed things up in the process, so this new beta should have improved performance for saving data as well as VLC video playback and Big Box themes.

@Xpendable I guess that does make sense that CoverFlow is just pushing the memory limits there. The memory is all cleaned up when you leave that view, but if you have enough games in the list to hit the limit, then you will hit it. There is a CoverFlow Image Quality setting in the Big Box options that should help if you set it to a lower value (it uses a smaller image cache and thus less memory if you use lower quality).

Unfortunately I can't dive in any deeper for the moment @Mr. RetroLust.

This can be done with a WPF DataGrid control. We actually do it in LaunchBox in the ListContentView.xaml file, I believe. This will do it though: <DataGrid.RowStyle> <Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridRow}"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="AlternationIndex" Value="0"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="White" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="AlternationIndex" Value="1"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="WhiteSmoke" /> </Trigger> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=Selectable}" Value="False"> <DataTrigger.Setters> <Setter Property="Background" Value="LightGray" /> </DataTrigger.Setters> </DataTrigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> </DataGrid.RowStyle> Stole it from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11435501/how-to-make-a-wpf-datagrid-with-alternating-row-colors-and-a-fix-color-section/11437349

Gotcha. Yeah, you can go here to download your correct license: https://www.launchbox-app.com/premium/lost-license I'd still appreciate any info you have on where you bought the drive originally. You can private message me if you'd rather.

Ugh. Who did you buy the drive from? I won't hold anything against you, but I would appreciate if you could PM me info on it so that I can stop them from selling pirated copies of LaunchBox.

The process is just to make a new game, call it Plex, and then point the Application Startup field to plex's URL.