Platform Device Image and Notes/Details do not display until new platform selected when BigBox starts on first platform in list - Slipstream - Text List with Details

[PizzaLaser]

Hi - I am trying to solve a problem with the Slipstream theme, with the Text List with Details view for Platforms.

What happens is that when the Platforms view first opens, if Bigbox opens on the first platform on the list, no device image/platform image or platform details/scroll populates. When I select another platform, then the images for that platform come in, and if I go back to the first (problematic) platform, now its images/scroll notes show up.

Is there any known bug in BB causing this? Or is there something I can do in the XAML files or BB settings to make it so when I first load the platforms view, it always shows the images/data?

Here are some screenshots showing the sequence of events:

 

1. First open Platforms view - with Bigbox starting off on the first platform on the list - no device image or notes displayed:

 

2. Select another platform - its image and notes appear:

 

3. Go back to the first platform - now its image and notes now appear as well:

Edited March 28, 2023 by PizzaLaser

[PizzaLaser]

UPDATE:

Just tried this again - and noticed something really weird. The behavior (of not displaying the art/details for the platform) only happens if the initial platform selected is the first platform on the list. 

Example:

In my screenshots, I have 2 platforms - PS3 and Windows. If I load it up and BigBox starts off on PS3, the above issue happens. However, if I select "remember last platform" and I exit BigBox while I am on Windows, then when I come back to BigBox later, it will start off on Windows - and the image + details for Windows will be displayed.

This suggests to me that there might be some flaw in the XAML for the platform view - if the first platform alphabetically is the "starting" platform, BigBox fails to display this additional data until the user moves through the selections. However, if the "starting" platform is somewhere lower in the list, then BigBox displays as intended.

I also tried to reproduce this in the Default theme - does not happen there.

[PizzaLaser]

Additional note:

In order to correct an issue whereby Slipstream's XAML caused the "recent" and "favorite" thumbnails to be not 100% surrounded by the user highlighting box, I replaced the Slipstream theme's "TextListView" and "ThumbnailListView" files with those from the Default theme. These were not altered in any way from the Default theme.

Therefore, if there is any error in the Slipstream XAML, I think it is likely found in the "TextFiltersView" file. I am deducing this to be the location of the error because it is the only real view file left that would (seem to) be a part of the Platform view I am using, which is different than the Default theme.

I tested what happens when I sub in the "TextFiltersView" XAML file from the Default theme - and what happens is that the platform view now looks exactly like the Default theme. So, that is not a solution.

[PizzaLaser]

SOLVED!

I figured it out through a bunch of trial and error, changing one thing at a time inside of TextFiltersView.

There were 3 elements failing to display - the scrolling notes, the fanart background image, and the device image. Each of these elements has its own section in the XAML file. Each of these sections has a line of code like this:

<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="TextScroller1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
                                BeginTime="00:00:00" To="0" Duration="00:00:00.3">

For each element, I changed To="0" to To="1".

I have no idea what this means in XAML because I don't know XAML - but these elements seemed related to the triggering of the display of the element, and I managed to stumble upon the specific item that required editing to get the desired outcome.

I hope that if anyone else has this issue, they will find this thread.