Main window bottom toolbar transparency effect - how to disable?

[xsvtoys]

In the main window if the number of games and the scaling is such that they don't all fit in the view and scrolling is required, the bottom toolbar becomes partially transparent, and you can see the game covers underneath it.  See red arrow below.

Is there any way to disable this?

 

[faeran]

I believe this is just a design choice for the default theme. You would have change the way the bottom bar acts by creating a custom theme, or use one of the themes available within the Tools > Manage LaunchBox Themes window (or here on the forums).

[xsvtoys]

OK thanks, looks like I'm stuck with it. Its not huge in the the big scheme of things, but I find it annoying as it makes that bottom menu bar more difficult to see, and it serves no useful function that I can see. I don't know how to modify a theme, but I can edit XML files, I looked through a bunch of them that are in the various themes folder, but I couldn't find an opacity setting that affected this menu bar. I presume its buried in the theme code.

[C-Beats]

Code you want I believe is in the MainView.xaml file. You just need to make sure the transition presenter with the ContentGridView (or something similar, I don't have the exact file open) uses a smaller rowspan and doesn't ever sit in the same row as the ControlsView. Or use a theme like Beats that already does what you're wanting.

[faeran]

This would probably be the easiest way to get what you want:

• Make a copy of the Default theme in LaunchBox\LBThemes, call it whatever you like.
• Go into LaunchBox\LBThemes\[theme name]\Views, and open the ControlsView.xaml file
• Find this line:     <Grid Background="#D0111111">
• Switch it to this:     <Grid Background="#111111">

In LaunchBox, switch to your new theme.

[xsvtoys]

I set every opacity value in MainView.xaml to 1.0 and it didn't have any effect. I did create a new theme by copying the entire Default theme to test this. I found out that with the installed Default theme even if you edit then save the xaml files and confirm they were modified, as soon as you open LB they get reverted back to their original conditions. If you edit it, save it, and set it to read only then LB doesn't like that and won't launch. So you have to work with a new theme to test those changes. But nothing i did affected the transparency of that tool bar.

Beats is pretty good, thank you for that recommendation. It does display that button bar without the transparency effect. But in the end, I decided to stick with the default and just hide that bottom toolbar. Everything that is on there is accessible in another way, except for the slider bar that changes the size of the box art images. But you can just decide where you want that and set it and be done with it. I don't think there is any other to do that resizing, but it is easy enough to unhide the toolbar if you want to do it.

This gives the nice minimalist look that I like.

[xsvtoys]

17 minutes ago, faeran said:

This would probably be the easiest way to get what you want:

• Make a copy of the Default theme in LaunchBox\LBThemes, call it whatever you like.
• Go into LaunchBox\LBThemes\[theme name]\Views, and open the ControlsView.xaml file
• Find this line:     <Grid Background="#D0111111">
• Switch it to this:     <Grid Background="#111111">

In LaunchBox, switch to your new theme.

OK dang that was easy!!! Thank you, took 2 seconds, solved the problem. I would have never guessed to make that change by just fiddling around in there.

[faeran]

2 minutes ago, xsvtoys said:

OK dang that was easy!!! Thank you, took 2 seconds, solved the problem. I would have never guessed to make that change by just fiddling around in there.

Good deal.

If you want to make sure this new theme will take on new future theme changes to Default more easily, you could delete every xaml file out of your Views folder, other than ControlsView.xaml. This will make your theme fall back to the default theme, other than your one change you made to the controls view/buttons bar.