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Thanks @Mach_10. Just know that themes don't control the saving of image grid sizes, that's just LaunchBox. The saving process happens when you close LaunchBox. Things to keep in mind: Closing LaunchBox to the system tray won't save these settings, you will have to close LaunchBox completely. If you have LaunchBox open in the system tray, and restart your computer, you could potentially lose some settings, as it will end up force closing LaunchBox. Running LaunchBox as an admin could cause saving issues. Changing your box size and then changing your LB Theme won't save the image size. Really, it just comes down to that if you are not seeing settings saved, then there's something stopping LaunchBox from accessing your Data settings file to make the save after LaunchBox has been closed.

There are platform theme video override folders that will allow you to have theme specific platform videos. If you want to see an example, I use them in the Retro Bedroom theme to play platform specific TV commercials:

Sounds like you have everything already working on an external drive, so you should be fine moving it to another external drive. Having the drive letter the same would be useful for a few standalone emulators that require absolute paths. You can test this with your current drive by changing its letter and seeing if any platforms break.

There's no current way to display platform or playlist images in LaunchBox, although that's something that would be nice to have.

by using AHK to accomplish what you are accomplishing, you more than likely want to use AHK to solve the focus issue it has caused you. Maybe you can adapt this one:

Sounds like you may have a dead zone issue. Does that joystick have any software that would allow you to adjust the dead zone?

Hopefully I'm understanding correctly here. Edit one of your games. Go into Additional Apps and select one of your versions. In there, you can choose which emulator you'd like that version to launch with.

In the past I've played around with this, and found that if you choose a logo that will dynamically change, it takes a second or so to load onto the screen, which wouldn't really work when it needs to be the first thing to load. I haven't really looked into it for a while, but since the CTC files are out now, you could always play around with it and see if it does any better these days.

I don't think this theme has ever had this functionality. Something like this could potentially be a big job, although I haven't ever looked into it. Sounds like you are either in the Filters List View, or don't have clear logos for your systems. If you are in the Filters List View, you can go back into Options > Views > Platforms List View: change this to Platform Wheel 1 Then go to Options > Keyboard Mappings (and/or Controller Mappings), and set a key for: Switch View The mapping will allow you to change your view on the fly for any platform or game's view.

In newer versions of LaunchBox, you can double click images within Game Details to get them to go full screen. You can also right click a box, go into Media > View Images.

The 12.9 Beta Testing thread is now open:

Hey everyone, 12.9 beta 1 is now out with a couple fixes and small improvements: Improvement - During a ROM import, the RetroArch core dropdown menu will only appear when the platform is missing from the emulator's Associated Platform section. Improvement - The Arrange By menu in LaunchBox can now be used in List View Fixed - Rare null reference error when changing platforms while using Images View (introduced in 12.8) Fixed - Rare error when attempting to display a message box @sagaopc @neil9000 @lexx, please let us know if this fixes the error you were seeing on the 12.8 beta thread.

Put both items inside of a container (like a Grid), and turn on "Clip to Region" on the container.

Just letting you know, Big Details 1.1 is now out, which has support for resizing the Game Details panel. It was a fairly large change, but should be working. There's a full changelog on its file change.

I may be mistaken, but the CTC doesn't currently support gradient animations. Maybe there's another way. What's your end goal with this?

Still unsure of what exactly you are trying to do, so this will be a shot in the dark. You are trying to animate a gradient, which I assume has a bunch of colors on it. Not sure where a mask fits into this scenario, but could you just separate the gradient onto another element that the mask isn't on?

You'd have to build a plugin to get that true crossfade effect, as it requires you to hold onto the previous image while the next one is loading in. You can get to a faux fading effect, but one would have to be gone before the next comes in. You should be able do this with code using triggers, or in the CTC using visibility conditioning.

I think I may have a solution, although it required me to restructure every element in Game Details to make it work. Thanks @helloiamjack. What do you mean by banner type image for a playlist? Do you mean the Game Details background image?