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I'm releasing the theme in a few minutes so @Jason Carr can you lock this thread please?
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OK, got the customizer app re-designed. It contains 18 base color schemes that can be applied or you can customize all the colors according to your own preferences.
Theme is almost finished, just have the system views to finish up.
Here's a look at the new customizer:
Main View
Apply Base Theme
Customize Theme
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Almost done with the ability to edit all theme colors with the editor. The text boxes reflect their changes in real time on the preview so you can really see what's changing and how it looks before saving. Here's a shot of it...
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14 hours ago, y2guru said:
I would like to see both the stars and larger game title in the game details pane, but if I were to choose.... i'd go with the 1st capture. btw, did you get a GPD Win to test this on ?
That is a great suggestion. Since everyone agrees on keeping the large game title, I'll move the star rating to the right, under the title.
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For the Text Games View, since the game title is already displayed in the list I am leaning toward ditching it (like in the bottom screenshot). BUT, on that small screen it may be nice to have it in the bigger, more legible font also. Any thoughts on this? Here's two captures showing 2 different ways I have experimented with so far (unfortunately we can only have 1 text view
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And remember, all the meta and other images are NOT included for a reason...this is a super light-weight theme that only needs clear logo's and screenshots so please don't request other metadata to be added.
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@Rincewind had me thinking about the color scheme with his prior comment, so I spent some time today writing a program that allows you to pick from 10 different color combos for the theme. I may add more if there is interest. The usage is simple...run the GPDWin Styler app supplied with the theme and apply the theme of your choice. Soon I'll add the ability to set the text colors from this app, but that's for another day. It's a visually simple app...but it gets the job done.
Here's a screenie of the program...
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Added the community star ratings and a little more progress. I'm slowly getting my time back to work on this so be patient with me
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OK, here it is to test out. Let me know if you want/need anything changed. I know you probably won't use the platform screen, but I made it anyway. Also, if you want the text-list game view also just let me know. Hope I did your idea justice
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- marquee dimensions = 365px X 98px, so when you are creating them use multiples of those dimensions to avoid stretching
- video dimensions = 320x240
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3 minutes ago, pezley said:
Thats really awesome, I'm happy for it to lose detail, it will lose most of it in the transition to CRT anyway.
One thing, when running on the CRT for some reason I get a lot more games on the left selection then running it at 1080p ( see photo attached.) any way to reduce this ? it makes the clear logos difficult to read
Yes. I'm almost done with the theme so you can test it out and I can make changes accordingly.
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Got it all laid out, should only take me a few minutes on Monday to code it.
Couple of notes for you:
- I don't have a monitor that goes down to 640x480 so I'll build it and test it at 800x600. It should scale down with no problems.
- the cabinet artwork was pretty hi rez, but it lost a lot of detail scaling down that much. Most notably the scanlines and shadows on the screen.
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Are all your marquees the same size? If not, do you want the image to stretch to fill the area or keep aspect?
Also, weekends are pretty hectic around here with my kids so I probably won't be able to do it until Monday when I'm back in the office.
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I'd be willing to help. I assume by your mock up that you have the artwork assets already made so it would only take a short time to complete.
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1 hour ago, neil9000 said:
Sorry @CriticalCid I'm clearly a idiot or stupid as I am struggling, I have added a image to Themes\Aeon MQ7\Image folder and called it defaultbackground
I have then edited the platformwheel3 to the attached file
And I get this.
I am clearly missing something, as your instructions were so simple, sorry.
You have no file extension on your "defaultbackground" image in the XAML
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OK, ready to go @CriticalCid.
<Viewbox> <StackPanel> <g:GrilaWeather ShowLocation="False" ShowConditions="True" ShowTemp="True" ShowUnits="True" ItemSpacing="5"/> <g:GrilaWeather ShowLocation="True" ShowConditions="False" ShowTemp="False" ShowUnits="False"/> </StackPanel> </Viewbox>
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10 minutes ago, CriticalCid said:
Awesome! Thank you very much it works great!
I noticed that I run into spacing problems with long location names. Would it be possible to add “Show” properties for the weather symbol and the temperature as well? With that I could add a second instance of your plugin in a new line under the first one which only shows the location.
Of course, I'll work on it today sometime.
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Alright @CriticalCid, your requests are added and the file has been updated in the downloads section. The units and location are bools and the item spacing is an int that adjusts........................the item spacing
<g:GrilaWeather Grid.Column="2" ShowUnits="True" ShowLocation="True" Foreground="White" ItemSpacing="5"/>
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Now that my kids are in bed and I have more time to think back, I'm pretty sure you can style the text like any normal textblock. Did you try adding FontFamily="whatever" and Foreground="whatever" to the element?
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14 hours ago, CriticalCid said:
Hey Grila, I recently played around with your plugin and it works like a charm
But nevertheless I have a few requests if you don’t mind:
1. Show C or F behind the °
2. Being able to change the font and text color of the temperature
3. Show the name of the currently set up location
Easy enough but I am off until Tuesday, January 2nd so it won't be until then.
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54 minutes ago, Mithrot said:
Sooo its been a few months since the OP ... is this thing going to be released anytime soon?
Well, you know that real-life thing kicked in...not sure if you are aware that making themes for other people isn't my day job. It'll get done eventually when I have the time to start working on it again.
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On 12/11/2017 at 1:23 PM, CriticalCid said:
You can also add the font as a plugin to your theme so that the users don’t have to install it on their system first.
I’m not entirely sure how you do that as I never needed it but I’m sure that either @Grila or @eatkinola can help you with that
@eatkinola outlined the steps a while back in the XAML Tips thread. Here's the post...
Click the arrow in the upper right corner to go directly to the post.
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3 minutes ago, shinra358 said:
I didn't mention color or anything else.
The ability to change the color is for the end user's sake. It has to be there or anyone using a control would be stuck with what the developer chose. I didn't specially add that because of your request, the ability is also in the original.
4 minutes ago, shinra358 said:I thought you were just going to include some opacity mask elements in your current plugin to make the juice look divided.
If all you wanted is an opacity mask for the original, you can do that yourself in the XAML. The original one is a progress bar though, so the charging animation of the segments is impossible.
If all you are after is the segmented look, and not the animation, I suggest you just use the original and make a mask for it to suit your needs.
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3 minutes ago, shinra358 said:
Oh ok, so the exposed properties can also modify the border thickness like your original plugin and thicKness between the separated battery and have you choose from gradual gain/loss to blinks as well?
Nothing can be adjusted on this one except the colors. I made it to match this video you posted on the first page.
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GPDWin
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GPDWin
View FileGPDWin is a lightweight theme for use on the portable GPDWin computer. Since the portable has limited storage, the theme only uses clear logos and game screenshots. Along with being lightweight, an customizer application is included that lets the end user change nearly all of the theme related colors (text colors, highlight colors, star rating colors, etc.) comfortably from a GUI without having to edit any code.
Even though the theme itself is pretty basic, I put a lot of love into the ability to customize it easily and visually. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it
A couple of notes:
And finally, some images:
The theme: