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  1. CriticalCid
    That’s odd. Does it only happen in this view? Are all other Platforms affected by this as well? Do the details work in other themes?
  2. CriticalCid
    Yes you can. Just change the Sort Titles of the platforms to change the order.
  3. CriticalCid
    Unfortunately not. BigBox just pauses/freezes the whole View when you go a level deeper and simply continues it when you go back. I can’t think of a way to bypass that with the current method I use to use to fade in and out the elements.
  4. CriticalCid
    Because it was just pointed out to me that the description notes don’t fill the whole space with some resolutions and DPI settings: I’m aware of that but unfortunately it’s completely out of my hands to change that. The scrolling notes have an issue that they cause BigBox to lag the longer the text gets. @Jason Carr has added a fix for this but this fix and the DPI “fix” (it’s honestly more of a hack) don’t work nicely together in a TwoColumns Details/Notes solution like CriticalZone uses it in some Views. The alternatives would have been to completely remove the performance fix for scrolling notes (but that was honestly never an option I considered as I’m also affected by this) or to don’t add any kind of DPI fixes at all. This way it’s at least kinda usable with high DPI settings With that said, if you don’t suffer from performance issues with long texts in the description notes or don’t care about that and prefer the aesthetics more than you can manually remove the fix yourself. For all Platform Views: Go to ”LaunchBox\Themes\CriticalZoneV2*the version you use*\Views” and open the “FilterDetailsView.xaml” file with any text editor of your choice and scroll all the way down to line 72. Here you have to change Name="Notes" To Name="NoFixNotes" Save the file and the notes should fill the whole space now. Just reverse this change if you want to apply the performance fix again. For the CoverFlowWithDetails View: Go to ”LaunchBox\Themes\CriticalZoneV2*the version you use*\Views” and open the “TwoColumnGameDetailsView.xaml” file with any text editor of your choice and scroll all the way down to line 80. Here you have to change Name="GameNotes" To Name="NoFixNotes" Save the file and the notes should fill the whole space now. Just reverse this change if you want to apply the performance fix again.
  5. CriticalCid
    You have to change the View. Theres another View that looks almost identical that uses boxes instead of the banners.
  6. CriticalCid
    Ah I see. Like stated in the download description does CriticalZone V2 require one of the latest LB v.7.11 beta versions in order to work.
  7. CriticalCid
    Can you post a screenshot of the error message?
  8. CriticalCid
    Like all 1.x versions I won't put the exact version number in the folder name, mainly to make it easier for integrating and updating it directly with LaunchBox, You can always look up which version you have installed by simply opening the changelog.txt file inside the theme folder.
  9. CriticalCid
    CriticalZone V2.1 released! The three main improvements are: - Beautiful custom backgrounds and logos for the BigBox main menu created by @keltoigael (huge thanks for this!) - Video background related bug fixes by @eatkinola (all issues that were reported so far should be fixed now!) - DPI fix for resolutions lower than 1080p and Windows DPI scaling higher than 100% @zetec-s-joe @ALIE Changelog: v2.1 - LB v7.11 (08/31/2017) - Added: The Filters and Options Views now have custom backgrounds and logos. Huge thanks to @keltoigael for creating them! - Fixed: All elements are now scaling correctly on any widescreen display resolutions and Windows DPI settings! - Fixed: A rare exception error in the AO plug-in was caught. It shouldn’t crash BigBox anymore - Fixed: Sometimes the background video(s) disappeared after exiting a game or when Windows went to the lock screen - Fixed: Some videos didn’t show up and only played the audio in the Vertical Wheel 4 Games View - Updated: The positions of the Box and Cart images where swapped in the Vertical Wheel 4 Games View in order to work more nicely with the video fix - Updated: The Images sub-folder "CustomIcons" was renamed to "Theme" as it now also includes the new custom backgrounds and logos - Updated: The color for selected menu items was changed to a lighter green tone to fit better to the new custom backgrounds (only in the regular versions of CriticalZone) Known issues: - The star rating won't show up sometimes when you jump too quickly from one game to the next. - The description texts in all Platform Views and CoverFlowWithDetails Games View don’t fill the whole space of the descriptions box when you use CriticalZone with a higher DPI setting than 100% or a lower display resolution than 1902x1080. It gets progressively worse the higher the DPI settings and/or lower the resolution is.
  10. CriticalCid
    Alternatively you could jusk ask the theme creator if he wants to add it for you before diving into theme editing yourself.
  11. CriticalCid
    It highly depends on the theme and how it’s structured. Here's the general code to make it show in a Games VIew. You have to edit the values and adapt them to the View. <Image x:Name="PlatformLogo" Source="{Binding Path=ActiveGame.PlatformClearLogoImagePath}" Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="1" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Top" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" Panel.ZIndex="99" /> Unfortuantely it won't be enough to just add and edit this line of code in most cases and you will need to restructure a chunk of the View itself. I highly recommend to watch Jason’s XAML tutorials first to learn the theming basics before you bother to tinker with it https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pTDaHeAz-X8yNgOD3DPxUf1gaB2FLzb
  12. CriticalCid
    The theme creator has to add it to theme/view. It's not something you can simply activate in the options and certainly not something you can easily add to a theme yourself without very basic understanding of how XAML works.
  13. CriticalCid
    The second one is RetroFresh:
  14. CriticalCid
    When I understood you correctly you want a theme/view that uses a Games Wheel and shows the platform logo? Something like this? or this?
  15. CriticalCid
    The platform and game wheels are only support in either the Platform or Game Views, there's no way to mix them. It may could be possible with a plug-in but as I'm no developer I can't say anything about that but I doubt that it would be an easy thing to do.
  16. CriticalCid
    Yeah, it’s definitely doable but not an quick edit as you would have to change quite a few parts like change the whole wheel settings and edit/remove everything that is related for fading/highlighting the non-selected and selected clear logos.
  17. CriticalCid
    This thread and especially my linked post in there should help
  18. CriticalCid
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedPlatform.Notes}" Foreground="White" /> To center something in XAML just add one or both properties (depending what you need) to the element HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" I’m not 100% sure about the technical stuff behind it but AFAIK this happens when a View is using an element/binding that Jason hasn’t added support in Visual Basic for it yet. I only use Notepad++ for editing so it never bothered me much.
  19. CriticalCid
    Those are pretty basic things to do. You should start with @Jason Carr's XAML tutorials because they are perfect for learning the basics. Especially understanding the Grid/Row/Column system and how to assign objects to them is essential for everything you do in XAML. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pTDaHeAz-X8yNgOD3DPxUf1gaB2FLzb
  20. CriticalCid
    Hey guys, @keltoigael has released CItyHunter 2.0. If you prefer his red cyberpunk desgin over mine I would suggest you should go and grab it! On another note: I’ve found a bug with some videos in the new Vertical Wheel 4 Games View that apparently nobody else has noticed or cared to report it yet. I’ve already fixed it on my end and CItyHunter 2.0 has this fix also already included but as it’s a non-crucial issue and I haven’t heard any complains about it yet I will wait with the update until @eatkinola has fixed the issues with his plug-ins that you guys have reported. I don’t want to annoy you with lots of small updates when I know that there still exist some issues that have to be fixed, so therefore I prefer to update it only once I know that everything is hopefully ironed out.
  21. CriticalCid
    Great job!
  22. CriticalCid
    As it’s still a beta feature you should post your feedback about that in the 7.11 beta thread. This way you can make sure that Jason, the developer, will see it https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/39133-711-beta-1-released/
  23. CriticalCid
    First of all, thanks for the suggestion! I always appreciate constructive feedback! Hm... I don’t know about that. The main reason for the platform logos to be there is to tell to which platform the game belongs to when you are in a playlist. You have to keep in mind that you can also have arcade games in playlists were all kind of consoles, handhelds, computers and arcade games are mixed together. So even if your suggestion would be possible (haven’t checked that yet) it will break for such mixed playlists.
  24. CriticalCid
    Actually that feature was already added in the latest beta versions. To activate beta updates just go to Tools -> General -> Updates and check the proper box for it. Now just restart LaunchBox to get the update. If you have background updates activated you may have to wait a little because the update message only appears when the background download has finished.
  25. CriticalCid
    Sure I get you. I don’t know how hard it would be to actually add it but technically is having a list with search patterns and “hijacking” the database two completely different pairs of shoes. Custom Images are probably a complete different beast and I’m very certain that this isn’t a quick thing to add by any means. I’m not saying that this is a bad idea but I honestly don’t see much use cases for it and nothing that many users would use. Of course you are free to add that request to the “List of Small Things” but if you check the current list in the second post you will notice that it’s already very long. That’s why I’ve said that it’s most certain a low priority right now even if it actually would be easy to add.
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