Jason Carr Posted November 2, 2016 Author Posted November 2, 2016 Hey all, beta 2 is out. It adds theme settings and better ESRB icon support for custom themes. Theme settings will allow certain themes to override the user's current settings whenever that theme is active, which will fix some points of confusion where themes require background videos to be enabled, etc. Martin, reviewing that document. A theme editor is a possibility in the future, but that's probably a long ways out, as it's such a major undertaking. I have the scroll issue near the top of my list. 4
Jason Carr Posted November 2, 2016 Author Posted November 2, 2016 Reviewed your document, @martinconroy. There's a ton of great ideas there, so thank you. I think the most urgent thing is to allow a way to disable or enable LEDBlinky and voice features on a system-by-system basis. We're probably a long ways off from integrating everything in that document, but I hope we can get there eventually.
Maddoc1007 Posted November 3, 2016 Posted November 3, 2016 @Jason Carr The marquee views are now showing up with the latest beta kudos. On an other note the vlc engine is still acting up only in LaunchBox. When you go to a Platform in LaunchBox then click on details in the menubar (top right), then click on a game now go to the details and close it, the video will then keep playing in the background only with the vlc engine, you have to open up the details again and click on video in order for it to stop.
popy Posted November 3, 2016 Posted November 3, 2016 7 hours ago, Jason Carr said: I have the scroll issue near the top of my list. thx a lot! I am here to test something, when its ready 1
martinconroy Posted November 3, 2016 Posted November 3, 2016 9 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Reviewed your document, @martinconroy. There's a ton of great ideas there, so thank you. I think the most urgent thing is to allow a way to disable or enable LEDBlinky and voice features on a system-by-system basis. We're probably a long ways off from integrating everything in that document, but I hope we can get there eventually. No worries @Jason Carr - always happy to help and offer suggestions. Agree that most things in there are well down any priority list but wanted to get things down whilst they came to mind, and hopefully the structural concepts are of use. Cheers, M. 1
Jason Carr Posted November 3, 2016 Author Posted November 3, 2016 Thanks guys. I did put another beta out to fix an issue with the renewal process. Now that it's November, people will start to see notifications that updates are not available for them because their premium license has expired (we're just now 1 year into the yearly premium licenses). Still in the process of working the other two features (automatic ROM folder parsing and the PDF reader). I took a bit of a side-step with the new theme features but those are ready to go now I believe. 2
Freestate Posted November 4, 2016 Posted November 4, 2016 Themes are not loading with the new beta. No loading of videos, clear logos...
Freestate Posted November 4, 2016 Posted November 4, 2016 Ok, i've located the issue, is about a new option to select into 4 types of platform wheels. Before some update, launchbox had only one option, and is deactivated, I choose wheel type 1 and the issue is solved. 1
Jason Carr Posted November 5, 2016 Author Posted November 5, 2016 Forgot to update this thread guys, the update video is out for this week: A new beta is out that includes an option to speed up the wheel. It's under Views > Wheel Minimum Speed. 3
Maddoc1007 Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 @Jason Carr Newest Beta Update am getting a Cannot create an instance of coverflow in all themes, Default theme in Visual Studio with latest update see screenshot, this will show up the muinute you click on the xaml code. see screenshots:
Jason Carr Posted November 5, 2016 Author Posted November 5, 2016 Hi Maddoc, if you run Big Box it should fix the themes so that doesn't happen. The themes are automatically upgraded for 7.0. Try closing all instances of Visual Studio, starting up Big Box 7.0-beta-4, and then editing the theme in Visual Studio after exiting Big Box.
Maddoc1007 Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 @Jason Carr Just did as you requested even went into task manager to make sure Visual Studio was fully closed still same error.
Maddoc1007 Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 @Jason Carr here is screenshot after doing what you requested
Jason Carr Posted November 5, 2016 Author Posted November 5, 2016 Hi Maddoc, can you email the theme files? I'll take a look to see what might be going wrong. jason@unbrokensoftware.com 1
Evil_Orko Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 (edited) Really looking forward to the GamesDB work. Thanks, Alex Dubois! Edited November 6, 2016 by Evil_Orko
Maddoc1007 Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 @Jason Carr Just emailed the default views and my theme views is that all you need?
Maddoc1007 Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 @Jason Carr Emailed the full default theme folder also see below this is the exception inside visual studio see screenshot
neil9000 Posted November 5, 2016 Posted November 5, 2016 Excellent, the wheels are SO much more responsive now. Thanks @Jason Carr.
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