sparksterz Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Ok...I'm having quite the time trying to configure Launchbox for my WG D9200. I think I finally found some decent themes for it, but I'm VERY limited due to having a resolution slightly under 800x600 to work within and I was hoping you guys could give some pointers. Basically I'm a launchbox noob. My desire is to boot straight to launchbox (solved), and then have 2 playlists to choose from (I only have the "Arcade platform"): All and Favorites. I know there's a favorite toggle, but I haven't found an intuitive way to tie it in thus the two separate playlists. Additionally the themes that utilize a list view are nice, but the issue I'm having is the white description text is often overlay-ed on top of artwork that is bright and makes the facts and description a bit unreadable. From what I understand themes are XAML? Is there a way I can put a darkening layer between the two to help the text pop out better? I haven't done much research into themes yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparksterz Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 Oh...just realized I probably should have specified I was referring to BigBox and not LaunchBox...mods feel free to move to a more appropriate location if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 On 9/16/2021 at 10:09 PM, sparksterz said: Additionally the themes that utilize a list view are nice, but the issue I'm having is the white description text is often overlay-ed on top of artwork that is bright and makes the facts and description a bit unreadable. From what I understand themes are XAML? Is there a way I can put a darkening layer between the two to help the text pop out better? I haven't done much research into themes yet. This is entirely possible. You can take any theme (other than the defaults) and edit their xaml files. If you have a very specific example, I can try to help you out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparksterz Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 9 minutes ago, faeran said: This is entirely possible. You can take any theme (other than the defaults) and edit their xaml files. If you have a very specific example, I can try to help you out more. Thanks, I'll let you know. I'll try tackling that myself first. I just wasn't sure if a "published" theme was any different than the raw files. The bit that leaves me scratching my head a bit more recently is the playlists. Is it possible that I just copy my 2 playlists in the "Arcade" platform, remove all the platforms and then just have the 2 playlists? I feel like there's a simpler way that's eluding me. I'm ideally looking for a UI that allows someone to toggle between a favorites list and everything. Alternatively maybe just the single playlist if I can find a way to toggle favorites on/off with a single button press which I believe is the original intent. I'd prefer the dual playlist approach though as unusual as that request may seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparksterz Posted September 22, 2021 Author Share Posted September 22, 2021 Alright...I've been fiddling with it some more and have almost exactly what I'm trying to do. Got the XAML figured out, got the Playlist issue...well worked around probably from what's ideal. Now I can't seem to get it to allow me to change the "Clear Logo" for Favorites. It seems there's a default favorites image being pulled from somewhere. If I add my logo for my "Favorites" playlist and delete the default one using Launchbox's UI it doesn't seem to save it...if I go to re-edit the playlist the old image pops up every time. Is there a way to modify the XML directly to get it to persist my local PNG? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 12 hours ago, sparksterz said: Alright...I've been fiddling with it some more and have almost exactly what I'm trying to do. Got the XAML figured out, got the Playlist issue...well worked around probably from what's ideal. Now I can't seem to get it to allow me to change the "Clear Logo" for Favorites. It seems there's a default favorites image being pulled from somewhere. If I add my logo for my "Favorites" playlist and delete the default one using Launchbox's UI it doesn't seem to save it...if I go to re-edit the playlist the old image pops up every time. Is there a way to modify the XML directly to get it to persist my local PNG? Something you can try. Navigate to: \\LaunchBox\Images\Playlists Depending on how you created your Favorites playlist you'll either see a folder called Favorites or Arcade Favorites Inside of there, you'll see a Clear Logo folder. Replace the image in there with the one you want to use. Try Big Box again, you may need to refresh your image cache. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparksterz Posted September 23, 2021 Author Share Posted September 23, 2021 9 hours ago, faeran said: Something you can try. Navigate to: \\LaunchBox\Images\Playlists Depending on how you created your Favorites playlist you'll either see a folder called Favorites or Arcade Favorites Inside of there, you'll see a Clear Logo folder. Replace the image in there with the one you want to use. Try Big Box again, you may need to refresh your image cache. Thanks! You're the best. That did it! Now I just have some control panel configuration and a power switch to go and I'll have successfully upgraded to a much nicer MAME setup than my 2000's era XP machine that died. Thanks a lot for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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