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  1. 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
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    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.
  3. CriticalCid
    The second one is RetroFresh:
  4. 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?
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    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.
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    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.
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    This thread and especially my linked post in there should help
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    <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.
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    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
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    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.
  11. CriticalCid
    Great job!
  12. 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/
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    Those metadata fields in the playlist xml’s are there for filtering only and are not actually usable info’s for LaunchBox to display. They were added as fail saves so that the playlists can easily be shared with other users. People are using different ROM sets with different file names, LB database updates could have changed the games ID's, people could have manually changed the game name or other metadata, etc. So it just makes sense to use multiple factors to increase the chance that LaunchBox can find the right games on a different LB setup.
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    That isn’t possible. Playlists are only filtering games out of your LaunchBox collection and don’t alter them in any way. I also don’t see any chance that this will be changed in the foreseeable future. If you really want to do this you would have to import them again as duplicates and change them the way you want.
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    Thanks for the error log Neil. Let's hope that @eatkinola can tell as something about that.
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    What elements in which Views are you talking about exactly?
  20. CriticalCid
    Hmm.. that’s indeed odd. What you could also try is to delete the theme and re-download it. This time unblock the whole .zip file before you extract it to your theme folder. EDIT: Also make sure to delete all other versions you have of the plug-in in your Metadata and main Plugin folder before you try that.
  21. CriticalCid
    CriticalZone v2.0.1 released! Just a quick bug fix. 2.0.1 - LB v.7.11 (08/17/2017) - Fixed: A timing issue in the Ao.Bigbox.Themer plug-in caused that the bakcground video(s) in the Platform Views didn’t start/were paused sometimes when BigBox was started. That should be fixed now. If you have already downloaded 2.0 you can just extract this dll file to CriticalZoneV2's Plugins folder and replace the old one with it: Ao.Bigbox.Themer.zip You have to unblock the dll file again once you have replaced it!
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    That normally happens when you unblock the DLL while BigBox was still running in the background (even when you close it and you're back on your desktop it can take a few seconds until the process is fully closed in the background). Rebooting your PC should fix it. But better check the DLL file after the reboot again if it’s still unblocked before you start BigBox/LaunchBox.
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    FYI because it just came up in the Discord chat. If you want to fully use the new background video engine and you need a great source for generic videos, than I highly recommend this YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/dvdangor2011 Remember to read the guide in the theme folder on how to set them up.
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    That depends on the BigBox Theme and the View that you are using how similar it looks to HyperSpin. For example check out the screenshots of my BigBox Theme to see how it could look like: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/126-criticalzone/ The themes aren’t available for everything, most of the the arcade system are pretty vastly covered but for any other systems there are currently only a handful of themes available.
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