Centered Listbox Selection

[Grila]

I've seen quite a few people request this before so I started working on it. It's not totally complete yet and I am still trying to figure a few minor things out, but here's a preview of it in action. The video has a little lag from recording, but rest assured the scrolling is butter smooth in real time. Oh, and you can set the font size in this one

 

[bundangdon]

This is great! I've requested this feature in BigBox for the past couple of years, yes literally Is this a plugin or code in a theme?

[Grila]

User control, so the dll will have to go in the theme's plugin directory, then the code added to the corresponding view. It's a minor change, so it shouldn't be that difficult for most.

[bundangdon]

Sounds good! Been waiting a while for this, so it will be very much appreciated

[wallmachine]

Thanks!

 

@Grila I'm guessing some small things are like once you enter the view its already in the center?

 

Edited April 24, 2018 by wallmachine

[Grila]

No, it will never start in the middle. No front end I've ever used (EmulationStation, RetroFE, Attract Mode) have ever started their list in the middle. It starts at index 0, scrolls to the center, stays there until nearing index Nan, then scrolls to the bottom.

If it started in the middle, and you were at index 0, then the whole top of the list would be blank...doesn't make sense.

[wallmachine]

11 minutes ago, Grila said:

No, it will never start in the middle. No front end I've ever used (EmulationStation, RetroFE, Attract Mode) have ever started their list in the middle. It starts at index 0, scrolls to the center, stays there until nearing index Nan, then scrolls to the bottom.

If it started in the middle, and you were at index 0, then the whole top of the list would be blank...doesn't make sense.

ahk, just wondering how does the WheelGamesView coverflow start in the middle?

[Grila]

That's a whole different beast. The text list views, at the core, are just plain old Windows listboxes styled in a way so they don't look like plain old Windows listboxes. There's no looping behavior. The wheels and coverflows are custom coded and loop their contents endlessly. 

[Cookz718]

@Grila sup dude ! so i've been out of this for a while (life duties) but now im back on this and uhhhhhhhhh... I realized that i was trying to get one of my themes to work and seems that maybe because im missing something idk but i notice on the list of games it actually lets me scroll through the game Up,Down, Left & Right as i please... Is this a new featured that was added orrrr what ? lol

[wallmachine]

@Grila will it allow us to add a dot or some other representation? example.

 

[bundangdon]

4 hours ago, wallmachine said:

@Grila will it allow us to add a dot or some other representation? example.

 

That would be great. I don't really know anything about the coding stuff within themes, but I can imagine that if Grila can get the listbox centered, then this should be possible too, possibly

[Grila]

6 hours ago, wallmachine said:

@Grila will it allow us to add a dot or some other representation? example.

 

You can already do that with the current listbox. You have to get creative with the ListBoxItemStyle.xaml.

Examples done in 10 seconds:

[wallmachine]

2 hours ago, Grila said:

You can already do that with the current listbox. You have to get creative with the ListBoxItemStyle.xaml.

Examples done in 10 seconds:

I envy you. This definitely did not take me 10 seconds...

 

 

[Grila]

Almost ready for release, just writing some documentation up now. Here's a quick video of it in action in @faeran's awesome CoverBox SNES theme:

 

[Cookz718]

11 minutes ago, Grila said:

Almost ready for release, just writing some documentation up now. Here's a quick video of it in action in @faeran's awesome CoverBox SNES theme:

 

nice stuff !! got any theme that takes full advantage of Wall View ?