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I just posted the answer to this question, I will re-post the other again later, since I still need an answer about how to get a theme to do something (not the default theme), how to use the themes Platform directory as it does with Clear Logos. (override). I have seen this as an issue on most all the custom themes I have tried, not just the one I am working on. You can drop images in the Themes\themename\Platform\Device folder within the theme, but they simply do not work, only if put in the LB\Images\Platform\Device folder.

I did find the answer to this question, but not the other. I will repost it later. The answer to this is, going into BB settings, Option, Images the enabling or disabling the images you prefer in the view.

The other post was about theming, and yes I mentioned the same view in the msg, but not just about that view, but was a different question about getting themes to use the Platform\Device folder in the theme (overiding). This post is about how the Text List with Details View works using default images. Maybe you should READ them better before deleting them. I do appreciate what you do, keeping the forums cleaner BTW

When I use the Text List with Details View in any theme, including the default theme it never uses the same type of backgound. One time it might use image in the device folder, the next time it might be the fanart image, (image folders I am referring to are the ones use as default images) next time it might be the image in the banner folder. Is it designed this way? If so, can I edit a file somewhare to force it to a specific type, such as device or fanart?

Thx, I was able to get this to work with newest version as of today and get passed the F5 screen.

Thanks RedSnake for getting back, I had it working in less than 2 minutes after your reply. I tinkered with this last night until 2am. I was close, but could never get it working. I kept trying to put the 2nd part of what you said to Viking (2 - Declare the converter static resource: <UserControl.Resources>) in the UserControlStyle.xaml. It never dawned on me to put it in the view file with the other 2 lines. Thanks for making this, it makes things so much cleaner.

@RedSnake I am trying to use this in a theme I am working on, however, the only 2 tools I am using are Notepad++ and Photoshop...lol. Is it to much to ask, what folder I would need to drop the dll file in and what files I would need to edit and how to get it to work? I have tried it numerous ways, but it's a bit above my head. I can't get things to work correctly in VS, thats why I am just using Notepad++. Any help would be appreciated.

I have been working on a new theme and it involves much work concerning Player Mode. I have been going through games in my Windows collection (close to 500), I am clicking on each game, and checking what is in the Player mode, about every other one, I am editing to change it. After I do about 30-40, this is what happens to my PC: Running LB 11.9 and everything on the PC is up-to-date. As you see, I have 32GB of ram, 8086k currently overclocked to 5GHZ (I dropped that down to 4.6 to see if it would help, but no change). Once it does this to me, if I close LB and start again, it seems to happen quicker. I ususally just reboot and do another batch. Anyone know what is going on and why LB would eat up the CPU like that???? Does it have anything to do with LB cache being large ? (over 20,000 games)

Thanks. I can make them if I can find the videos. That's the hard part. If you can get me the videos I will see what I can do.

The Papaw-Pause Theme (4K Tested) View File This is a redux of the awesome "Big Fade Pause" theme. A Big thanks to Retro808 for his contribution and allowing me to share a modded version of it. It was designed for 4K, but seems to work fine on 1080 as well. I tested this with the usual emulators, if you look at the screenshots you can see the ones used, the N64 is using RetroArch. The PCSX2 is buggy, sometime it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes doing it a 2nd time will kill the process, but not always. The main changes I made to it was I changed the font to match the font I used with the Startup Theme and it pulls the Fanart Background artwork. Install: Unzip and drop the "The Papaw-Pause Theme" folder into your ..\Launchbox\PauseThemes\ folder. The Roboto-Light font is included in the font folder if you wish it to match the screenshots. To install it on your PC (just click on it and follow the Windows prompts) Choose it in the BigBox Options. That's pretty much it. I also did this remake to go along with the of the redux of my version of the "Just Simple Startup Theme". The "The Papaw-Startup Theme" Don't forget to rate and leave comments and questions! Enjoy!! Submitter Wanderer189 Submitted 02/06/2021 Category Pause Themes  

The Papaw-Startup Theme (4K Tested) View File This is a redux of the awesome "Just Simple Startup Theme". A Big thanks to BlazingRyuu for his contribution and allowing me to share a modded version of it. It was designed for 4K, but seems to work fine on 1080 as well. Features: The backgrounds are from the game itself and pulled from the Fanart Backgrounds folder Animated loading bar (it loops for slower systems) Nice small 3D Box in the upper left corner (will default back to 2D Box if no 3D is available) Nice small clearlogo in upper right corner Play count on bottom right corner There are now 3 versions of the "Default.xaml file. Small, Medium and Large. They change the size of the Boxart in the upper left hand corner. Rename the one you wish to use to "Default.xaml". The screenshots show the small cornered artwork. I added a couple more screenshots at the end that show the medium and large box arts. Install: Unzip and drop the "The Papaw-Startup Theme" folder into your ..\Launchbox\StartupThemes\ folder. (Folder name has to remain The Papaw-Startup Theme) Choose the Box art size you wish to use by picking the correct Default.xaml file aand making sure it is named to Default.xaml (will default to Medium) The Roboto-Light font is included in the font folder if you wish it to match the screenshots. To install it on your PC (just click on it and follow the Windows prompts) Choose it in the BigBox Options. That's pretty much it. If you have a platform that doesn't work, make a copy of the "Default.xaml" and rename it to the problem platform and give that a try. I also did a remake of the of the "Big Fade" Pause theme to go along with this startup theme, the only changes made too it was I changed the font to match this and it now pulls the Fanart Backgrounds artwork instead of screenshot artwork. Pause theme I modded to match this: The Papaw-Pause Theme Don't forget to rate and leave comments and questions! Enjoy!! Submitter Wanderer189 Submitted 02/06/2021 Category Startup Themes  

About once a year, I go though my collections and try to update all the media data. I download new data for everything, resize everything, combine with my older custom stuff, etc.. I am noticing that I have gotten tons of images that have extra characters add to the name. For example, Dragon Lore should be downloaded as Dragon Lore-01.ext, but I got "Dragon Lore.1dd8e7a7-1205-48dd-9a8f-13f6ea406c08-01". And many times I got multiple copies of each one with the extra characters being changed up, but they are all identical image. Sometimes 4 or 5 of them per game. I am going to have 1000's of these to find, rename and delete if I wish to get rid of them. Can anyone explain to me here what is going on with this, why it happens and if there is anything I can do to prevent it? UPDATED Info: After spending hours going through some of this, I think am noticing a pattern. It seems that when it happens, it is happening for all the artwork for that particular game. An example is Tetris in the Arcade platform. It happens to the all the artwork for the game, Advertisement Flyer - Front, Banner, Box - 3D, Box - Front, Clear Logo, etc.. I have also noticed this still using Tetris from the Arcade platform as an example. Here are the 6 files it downloaded (keep in mind, I started with empty directories): Tetris.3a1a0a30-16b3-402e-b660-5d8049086012-01.jpg Tetris.025e5225-9ada-4371-844f-19ad63f86e33-01.jpg Tetris.944c026e-ce36-4976-a3d9-317978f8ee66-01.jpg Tetris.430583ff-f44b-4beb-8cf5-ba911cd38473-01.jpg Tetris.5386976b-2997-48c3-8c30-ee6731233418-01.jpg Tetris.e3aa9b16-2527-4bb4-bdac-77ad8e2b3e82-01.jpg If it downloads 6 files into any media folder, such as the Fanart - Background folder, It means I am getting 6 files in every other folder that has an image. Say this was the Fanart - Background, I will also get 6 ClearLogos, 6 Box - Front, 6 Box3d, etc. All 6 of them in every folder will have matching extra characters that I hightlighted in red. Most of them only have 2-3 but some have 10+.

It must have came back up, I got 200+ errors but it is downloading again and site is reachable now.

Looking that way, I had LB downloading meta data and it has been running all night, since I got notified about your post, I just checked LB and it is erroring on every image it is trying to download now. That really sucks, now another 12 hours to run it again....lol

PC Board Travel (4K & 1080) View File I made a startup video for my setups, thought I would share. It is 4K (HEVC) but works fine with 720 and 1080 setups One is just 15 seconds long and the second one is 30 seconds long for older, slower systems. After a few seconds of video it also says "I am starting your gaming system now, one moment please" Enjoy! Watch 15 Second Version (youtube) Submitter The Papaw Submitted 01/27/2021 Category Big Box Startup Videos  

Thank you Sir, yeah, I kinda figured that.