y2guru Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, blattacker said: In that case, it's great! Really intuitive to use, and I appreciate that there are so many templates available to use, since it lets me accommodate the borders for platforms with different aspect ratios for their box art! thats great to hear, i stressed over this feature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsparagusTrevor Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 I'd like chuck in my two pence and echo how great the wheel item templates are and how useful they're proving to be. Totally intuitive to create, there was no problem figuring out how they work and in minutes I was creating exactly what I wanted. Like Blacktacker, I'm also mainly using them for creating selection boxes and helping with problematic changing box sizes, and for that they've worked extremely well. I've also played around a little bit to create some pretty cool effects, there's some cool things you can pull off with a bit of tinkering. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzosjt Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 16 hours ago, y2guru said: correct, 1 config this feature looks promising to me! I was going to wait until the official release, but now I think I'm going to give the evaluation version a test drive thanks to this addition. anyway to condense settings and make things easier to implement is a good idea to me. really thankful you were able to figure out how to make this work for us all! I'm hopeful this resolves the challenge I was trying to overcome, which is making playlists display the selected game's video accordingly (position and dimensions), going off said selected game's platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 3 minutes ago, skizzosjt said: this feature looks promising to me! I was going to wait until the official release, but now I think I'm going to give the evaluation version a test drive thanks to this addition. anyway to condense settings and make things easier to implement is a good idea to me. really thankful you were able to figure out how to make this work for us all! I'm hopeful this resolves the challenge I was trying to overcome, which is making playlists display the selected game's video accordingly (position and dimensions), going off said selected game's platform. yes it will resolve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfdeign Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Where are the wheel item templates located? I just copied a theme from 2.3 into this one and when I try a template I just get text using the wall view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 43 minutes ago, Surfdeign said: Where are the wheel item templates located? I just copied a theme from 2.3 into this one and when I try a template I just get text using the wall view. You have to create a wheel item template, main window, top of screen click the wheel item template modifier. or go to the included theme _Theme Components and copy the templates from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 On 12/20/2022 at 2:43 PM, y2guru said: ah ok, well let me know how you make out with the wheel item templates, no one has commented on using them yet and that was the lion share of version 2.5 At first I was lost on how to create a template. Then once I copied over the examples and saw what could be done, it looks really promising. It still took a while with making small edits in the template plus size and rotation changes in the theme for me to achieve the results I wanted. Wall views are in my theme and highlighting the selected item is BIG improvement for those! I used to have a grid overlaying the wheel to show favorite, broken and completed badges for the selected wheel item. Now I can actually have the badges as part of the wheel so they are always visible even when not the currently selected wheel item. One last thing I want to incorporate is the idea of having switches in my theme so users can control things like whether fanart backgrounds are used or not. My solution is a bit kludgy, but simple also. But, I have to be careful to not have too much going on or I suppose performance will take a hit. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, Rob_G said: At first I was lost on how to create a template. Then once I copied over the examples and saw what could be done, it looks really promising. It still took a while with making small edits in the template plus size and rotation changes in the theme for me to achieve the results I wanted. Wall views are in my theme and highlighting the selected item is BIG improvement for those! I used to have a grid overlaying the wheel to show favorite, broken and completed badges for the selected wheel item. Now I can actually have the badges as part of the wheel so they are always visible even when not the currently selected wheel item. One last thing I want to incorporate is the idea of having switches in my theme so users can control things like whether fanart backgrounds are used or not. My solution is a bit kludgy, but simple also. But, I have to be careful to not have too much going on or I suppose performance will take a hit. Rob So you like it? btw wallviews are taking a hit when using templates, I’m addressing that right now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 One thing in 2.3 that also happens in 2.5 is where platform clear logos won't show while editing a view and a playlist is selected. It does show once Big Box is loaded Ro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 4 minutes ago, y2guru said: So you like it? btw wallviews are taking a hit when using templates, I’m addressing that right now Yes, I like it. I'm not going to get too fancy with it, but definitely the badge support is great! I've now gone into a holding pattern for 2.5 release. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 Well ... I have tested, tweaked and reinforced the code to the best of my ability in the time I had leading up to today. Should I pull the trigger and release Version 2.5 ? 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Just now, y2guru said: Well ... I have tested, tweaked and reinforced the code to the best of my ability in the time I had leading up to today. Should I pull the trigger and release Version 2.5 ? Yes you should and you did an amazing job man! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemmyTree Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 1 hour ago, y2guru said: Well ... I have tested, tweaked and reinforced the code to the best of my ability in the time I had leading up to today. Should I pull the trigger and release Version 2.5 ? Only if you accept this as an offering. Oh y2guru, oh y2guru Thy theme creator o'plenty oh y2guru oh y2guru thy wait release unbeary now bring to us the theme create so we can develop then procrastinate oh y2guru, oh y2guru release please to thine community 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 1 hour ago, y2guru said: Well ... I have tested, tweaked and reinforced the code to the best of my ability in the time I had leading up to today. Should I pull the trigger and release Version 2.5 ? Yes please 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Patrick Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Thanks for addressing the wall views Dave. 2.5 is a huge accomplishment! 🥳 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntsmiester Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 3 hours ago, y2guru said: Well ... I have tested, tweaked and reinforced the code to the best of my ability in the time I had leading up to today. Should I pull the trigger and release Version 2.5 ? Yes Please... I have a custom resolution and the Theme Creator helps create my themes to fit just right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_G Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 6 hours ago, Rob_G said: One thing in 2.3 that also happens in 2.5 is where platform clear logos won't show while editing a view and a playlist is selected. It does show once Big Box is loaded Rob I found the work around for using platform clear logo metadata images not showing is to make sure the platform clear logo filename matches the name of the platform. Rob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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