mrpetenorth Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 (edited) I've been tinkering with the xaml files for the Game Discovery Centre view. I love it first off, really could be a wonderful new feature and could become my new launch screen if I can change a few things. What's bothering me is the use of screenshots for the background of each game - the highscores one looks really cool, but the rest look a bit rubbish and would definitely look better to me with the fanart background used. Also the white border on selected game is cut off top and bottom on platforms and collections (it also flashes rapidly which I can't stand). I've tried reordering imagetype to put fanart first, I've reordered priorities for screenshots in Launchbox (I didn't really want to do this, but it didn't work anyway) and finally just went through changing imagetypes to completely wipe out any mention of screenshots and replacing with fanart-background. The changes I make stick (fanart for the backgrounds, the white border around selected item no longer flashes and the same white border isn't cut off top and bottom for platforms and collections) but when I restart Big Box I get a message in Notepad++ that another program has modified the file and Game Discovery Centre reverts to it's original flawed appearance. Scratching my head now. Any ideas as to where I'm going wrong? I'm a long long way from being an expert but I am a tenacious trial and error guy - this one's got me stumped though. I've got a working xaml but I just need Big Box to leave it alone when I open the program. Edited December 19, 2023 by mrpetenorth additional info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 What is going on is you can never edit any of LB or BB Default themes. They will always return to original code. This is done to ensure LB/BB always has a working theme. What you need to do is copy the Default theme and rename the copy whatever you want. Then you can edit that new theme. You need to then change BB to use that new theme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpetenorth Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 (edited) 6 hours ago, Retro808 said: What is going on is you can never edit any of LB or BB Default themes. They will always return to original code. This is done to ensure LB/BB always has a working theme. What you need to do is copy the Default theme and rename the copy whatever you want. Then you can edit that new theme. You need to then change BB to use that new theme. Oh no! That makes sense, but as far as I can see, you can't apply a theme to Game Discovery Centre. EDIT: Yes you can! I put the amended file (with the normal file name (discoverypageview.xaml)) into the list of views in my chosen theme's "views" folder and it works! Thanks for your help! Edited December 19, 2023 by mrpetenorth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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