MaDmiX 5 Posted June 25, 2019 Hi folks, I looked around here and in the YouTube tutorials but there didn't appear to be much there. Where can I find info on how to get started with creating themes? Thanks, MM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeViking245 285 Posted June 25, 2019 Check out the Documentation.pdf in the ..\LaunchBox\Themes directory. There's a link at the beginning for getting started. When you open it (and after watching it) there are links on the right for more videos. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) Hi JoeViking245, Thanks for the quick reply. I looked but there was no .pdf in that folder. FWIW, I looked in the C:\Users\<USERNAME>\LaunchBox\Themes folder. Is this what you were referring to? Thanks, MM Edited June 25, 2019 by MaDmiX Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeViking245 285 Posted June 25, 2019 It should be in wherever you installed Launchbox and then sub directory Themes. Of course it is possible that I found it somewhere else a long while back (thus forgot) and put there myself. It looks something like: (hopefully it attached here) Documentation.pdf Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted June 25, 2019 Thanks! I started looking at the tutorials from the screenshot in your first post and I will look at the docs you posted also. That is plenty to get me started. I like that I can use Visual Studio to work on the themes. This is very cool 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted June 26, 2019 So I am having some trouble out of the gate. I am trying to follow the first tutorial but first I got the "Invalid Markup" error. I solved this by adding references as described in another thread. Now I am getting the following exception error: An error occurred while finding the resource dictionary "pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/CriticalZoneV2 - Default/Styles/UserControlStyle.xaml". I searched around but couldn't find a solution to this error. Sadly I have not been able to successfully open any views yet Thanks for any help you guys can offer. MM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted June 28, 2019 Nobody? Really? Oh, man this sucks. I have tried it on 2 separate computers with the same result. Man, I am bummed Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Retro808 1,180 Posted June 28, 2019 10 minutes ago, MaDmiX said: Nobody? Really? Oh, man this sucks. I have tried it on 2 separate computers with the same result. Man, I am bummed Small community and we really only have a few regulars who have coding knowledge and theme building knowledge. So it may be slow to get solid answers. A good spot to post and read is this thread. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeViking245 285 Posted June 28, 2019 For CriticalZoneV2, in Visual Studio I've never been able to see the top half of the screen (preview) due to some error or another. However you can still make changes to the code and it does work in LB/BB without issue. You just don't get the WYSIWYG effect and can't make adjustments on the upper half by dragging. The Default theme you can. It just lacks the <!--comments--> CZ2 has to help show you where you're at. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neil9000 2,139 Posted June 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said: For CriticalZoneV2, in Visual Studio I've never been able to see the top half of the screen (preview) due to some error or another. However you can still make changes to the code and it does work in LB/BB without issue. You just don't get the WYSIWYG effect and can't make adjustments on the upper half by dragging. The Default theme you can. It just lacks the <!--comments--> CZ2 has to help show you where you're at. I believe that @CriticalCid completely makes in themes in notepad++ and does not use Visual Studio, could that be a reason why it does not open correctly in that? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted June 28, 2019 Thanks everybody for you responses. Per your advice I opted for the default theme instead of CriticalZoneV2 and no errors. Excited about creating now 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rincewind 402 Posted June 28, 2019 I would also recommend using Notepad++ to edit your themes, That way your start to understand how the code works and what changes what. I like you wanted to use visual studio because I wanted to see the changes I made on screen but I never managed to get it work work properly. The good news is @y2guru is currently programming a theme editor which will help too make designing themes a lot easier 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted June 29, 2019 Quote I would also recommend using Notepad++ to edit your themes, That way your start to understand how the code works and what changes what. I like you wanted to use visual studio because I wanted to see the changes I made on screen but I never managed to get it work work properly. The good news is @y2guru is currently programming a theme editor which will help too make designing themes a lot easier I like the idea of a theme editor. Can't wait to see what @y2guru comes up with. I use Sublime Text for coding. It's a lot like Notepad++ which I like too but for me, Sublime Text is what I am used to. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MaDmiX 5 Posted July 7, 2019 Hi folks, I made an interesting discovery. Not sure if it holds for all themes but I noticed that I get the "Invalid Markup" errors when I load a downloaded theme into Visual Studio (even though it is in my themes directory). But if I go and install the same theme into Bigbox using the built in theme installer I don't get the errors. I just thought I would post this in case others have this issue. MM 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
