sozuke Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 (edited) Hey guys! I've been trying to learn how themes work; I've watched Jason's videos on Visual Studio, I've downloaded the community version and played around with it, and I've experimented with editing view files and corresponding images/videos within the awesome themes I've downloaded from this forum... your know, just changing stuff around to learn what happens, hoping to be able to match Critical Cid or Viking one day far, far into the future. There are some things I can't seem to figure out, though... for instance, your start out in big box by selecting a platform in a platform view, then you go on to select a game, and then you end up in a view in which you can choose "play", "manual" and so forth. This view seems to look the same in all themes, there are choices to do the aforementioned things in a menu to the left, there's a video of the game and a cover in the middle, and a description to the right. What is this view called? I really can't find it. I'd like to make some changes to it, at least remove the video, or maybe even bypass it altogether. Edited March 10, 2017 by sozuke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spektor56 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 (edited) You can skip that view through a setting in BigBox Options AFAIK. That feature was requested a Looooooooong time ago Edited March 10, 2017 by spektor56 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 @sozuke: That view is represented by the file "TextGamesView.xaml". As @spektor56 mentioned, you can bypass it. BigBox Settings: Options -- General -- Skip Game Details Screen (check this box) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sozuke Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Ah, thanks to both of you! I somehow hadn't noticed that setting. Then I'll always have the option to bypass if I'm not able to edit the TextGamesView-file more to my liking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chglcu Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) I thought it was GameDetailsView.xaml, not TextGamesView.xaml. If you want to keep the view available, but also the option to skip it, you can use the Play button (default gamepad button 3, keyboard P) instead of the Select button when in the games list. Edited March 11, 2017 by prolecat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 TextGamesView is a root view -- contained within it is GameDetailsView. To get the effect you want, you might need to edit both of these files. The documentation.pdf file in the Themes folder describes all the views. That's good to know about the Play button, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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