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No, only change the GameDetailsView.xaml if you are sure that you want the same style for multiple views because it is used for nearly every other Games view as well. In your situation it’s way better to just replace the GameDetails Binding with <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedGame.Notes}" The other stuff was just the explanation why it doesn’t work for you this way at the moment

Use for the Notes/Description <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedGame.Notes}" instead of binding the GameDetailsView. If you haven’t removed everything else except the Notes in your “GameDetailsView.xaml” than it’s no wonder that the details will show up twice For modifying FlowControl (the wheel) look at page 10 in the documentation.pdf. Everything should be explained there. Same thing for scrolling text on page 13, it also works for single lines of text like developers, etc. But you'll have to try it out if that looks any good. Because it currently can only scroll up and down.

That’s a Vertical View Yeah I know, not much that I can do except making the glass bar larger. But I honestly don’t want to do that. My compromise/reference was to make it so big that “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” fits in without being cut off.

That's weird. Normally it should start a new line and continue with the title. Doesn't that work for you?

Here you go

Das Überleben Dem Großen Sprung?There's actually a game named like that? Wow, that's what I call some broken German

Like I said, you can use a horizontal wheel view for that instead. That should behave exactly like you have it described. For using it in Big Box you have to activate it in the theme settings first though. Just open your “ThemeSettings.xml” in your theme folder and set <DisableHorizontalWheel1GamesView> to false. @viking has a view like that in his BigCouch theme. So if you need help for setting up the wheel than I would suggest to check his theme out and see how he has done it.

Ah, gotcha. No that's currently not possible. Maybe worth another feature request

1. This is handled through the files in the “Styles” folder. You have to edit the ones with "Item" in the name. But I’m not quite sure which one of these handled the box lists. So you have to try it out which is the right one. 2. I’m not sure what you mean with Grid view but you can use a horizontal wheel and replace the clear logos with box cover if that’s what you have in mind.

TwoColumnGameDetailsView.xaml for the CoverFlowWithDetails View. For every other view: GameDetailsView.xaml

BigBox has to cache the box images first when you enter a system for the first time. That’s probably what you saw when the games got populated very slow. That shouldn’t occur anymore when everything is cached properly. To your missing covers. You are pushing them out of the screen with your margin property

If you want to do video from scratch you should probably hit up @BakerMan or @Nyny77 to get some assistance. If you want to record existing HyperSpin Themes than I encourage you to wait a little. I indeed have a tutorial planned for this. But like Brad said it’s a way more complicated process than you might think at first.

Hey viking, the bug comes clearly from the Big Box video engines itself. Depending on the engine you have selected you get 2 totally different buggy behaviors. Some videos aren't affected at all, some more and some less. But that bug always occurs on the exact same videos and I get that with your and my own videos as well, no matter what Big Box theme I use. I also can’t identify a pattern why this occurs because I know that all of my videos were encoded with the exact same settings and the same program version. So that’s something what Jason has to fix. In the meantime, I looked at your theme and fixed it for 16:9 resolutions the same way like I have with my own theme. I calculated how much space a video of yours needs to fit exactly in the right column of your row on the top. Because the size is only optimized for 16:9 aspect ratios you’ll need to do different versions of your theme for different aspect ratios. I know it’s not ideal but it works for now until Jason has fixed that annoying bug. PlatformWheel2FiltersView.xaml Here's a little explanation how I have calculated that exact value:

The recent/favorite element is defined in the “ThumbnailListView.xaml” file. You can remove the text by simply deleting the TextBox in there. But I don’t know if it’s possible to limit the number of games. You may have to Google if that works for a ListBox without any backend code. The only thing you could definitely do though is to reduce the size of the column until the cut off image won’t be shown anymore. But of course that’s not an ideal solution because you’ll have different box image formats for different consoles.So it may or may not be possible to find an ideal value for this.

Trust me, the documentation.pdf issue was reported often enough, but Jason tends to keep to forget to solve it

Nope, 6.9 was the last version which used the old XML. So going back to 6.12 should be fine.

The problem with your wheel could be that you set the image outside of the wheel grid and therefore they have a different ZIndex hierarchy. Try to move it to the grid and see if that helps. I think the size of the recent/favorite games element is based on the space it has to its disposal. Just add additional columns and/or rows to limit the space, similar to the centered video solution that I’ve showed you.

I know you can show the platform (clear) logo in a games view but I’m not quite sure if it’s possible to show other platform images at the moment. Maybe @Jason Carr can help you more with this.

Well, we mentioned him a couple of times here with the @ feature. So the chances are good that he sees this thread anyways. The best way would probably be to create BitBucket tickets for every theming feature you would need. Than write him an e-mail at jason@unbrokensoftware.com and add in there the links to this thread and all your tickets. On this way it's easier for him to keep track of all your requests.

There’s a documentation.pdf file in the “Themes” folder of your LaunchBox installation. On page 10 starts the paragraph about FlowControl (the Wheel) with all kinds of explanations how to modify the sizes and behavior of your wheel. Just go in to the Views folder of your metallic theme, open the PlatformWheel XAML file of the view you want to edit with Notepad++ or any other text editor and change the values of the CoverFlow:FlowControl element to your likings. I hope that helps

Ah I see you have changed the height of your video row, then it’s no surprise that my column values haven’t centered the video. I honestly don't know why all elements would disappear but I would try to give the background transition presenter 0 as ZIndex and the main grid 1, that would cause that every element in the main grid is automatically one layer above the background. But I don’t know if all other ZIndex values in the main grid would need to be higher than 1 as well, that’s something you would have to try out. Also when I look at the documentation than it seems that currently is only vertical text scrolling available. So horizontal scrolling would need some extra code from Jason in the backend as well. The Big Box theming engine is still early days and @Jason Carr adds new features for it as the theme creators would need them. So If you ask him nicely he will surely come back to you with a solution for this.

Thanks guys. I’m just giving back the knowledge and experience I got through creating my own theme Unfortunately not. Big Box doesn't support Flash and probably never will since it's an old and dying technology.

You can center some XAML elements with the Alignment properties but those are currently completely buggy for videos, unfortunately. @viking and myself are frequently asking @Jason Carr to fix this but it seems to be a real hard one to solve. In the meantime you could do the same workaround that I use for my own theme as well. You have to define 3 additional columns in the row for your video. 2 as spacer left and right and one for the middle which has the video in it. On this way you can make the position of the video fix. To find out the correct widths for these columns you have to calculate them. That’s one of the reason why I’ve said that I prefer to set all rows and columns manually and divide them in to exactly 100% and prefer additional rows/columns as distance keeper over the margin property. That makes something like this really easy. Just use the Rule of Three to get the right percentage values. For example: You have set your height for the video to 32% in your last posted code. Considering that you are designing the theme primarily for 16:9 aspect ratios we can take 1080p as a reference resolution. 32% of 1080 pixels are 345,6 pixels. Now we take the dimensions of your video which you’ve said are 812 x 214. We know that Big Box is keeping the aspect ratio when it’s stretching a video. In this case it stretches it to the calculated 345,6 pixels in height to fill the row the best as it can. This is 61,48% larger than the original video. Now we need to multiply the width of 812 pixels with 1,6148 to get the value of the stretched width of the video in your view. That’s 1311,22 pixels. 1311,22 pixels is circa 68,3% of 1920 pixels. That's exactly the value we need for our column in the middle. Now we just have to divide the remaining 31,7% by 2 and we have all 3 values for our columns. If I haven’t miscalculated should the end result look like this: <Grid Grid.Row="2"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="15.85*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="68.3*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="15.85*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <transitions:TransitionPresenter Grid.Column="1" TransitionSelector="{Binding ImageVideoTransitionSelector}" Content="{Binding ImageVideoView}" IsContentVideo="true" /> </Grid> Just replace your current video element with this and the video should be centered. You can also use that exact same column definition for your System Info row as well and you’ll have the exact same size for it.

Some things to test/check if your videos don't work: 1. Try to switch your Video Playback Engine in your BigBox options. I recommend to use VLC because WMP highly depends on the codecs which you have installed locally on your PC in order to play some formats. VLC should be able to play almost everything without the need to install some additional codecs. 2. Are the videos named exactly like your platforms in LB? 3. Have you tried to put the videos in the standard platform video folder? “.\LaunchBox\Videos\Platforms”

Btw. I just have checked if it’s possible to add the time and date to a view. It’s possible but the time won’t get updated and It always stays at the exact same time on which it was when you have opened the view. So that probably requires some code in the backend first. I’m also not sure if it’s possible to add some extern code for a weather widget or similar. That’s a question that @Jason Carr has to answer.