241 replies to this topic

[headkaze]

TalkingBull, on Feb 23 2006, 10:52 AM, said:

Whenever GameEx loads, it shows my MAME background as my start.  When I go to another page, the correct StartBak loads and remains but it is always wrong when it loads up.

Also when I go to the Emulators seciton, my StartBak is there and not my EmuBak, that shows up on each Emulator's page.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This sounds to me like a GameEx issue rather than with the Theme Editor. Probably need to get Tom to check that out.

[tsunami]

i love the theme editor and the ability to move the image and list boxes around. i do have a few questions for you:

- is there a way to remove the rectangular background color of the selection screen?

- i can't seem to save my themes using the "file->save" option. i can save just fine by selecting "file->save as" and overwritting the current theme.ini but the "file->save" gives me a pop-up box saying, "An error has occured while attempting to save the theme". i'm sorry that i don't have more info to give you on this but i couldn't find a theme editor log to submit with this post.

- is there a standard format youd like us users to use for submitting tests for the theme editor?

[headkaze]

tsunami, on Feb 25 2006, 07:02 PM, said:

- is there a way to remove the rectangular background color of the selection screen?

Not quite sure what you mean by remove "rectangular background color of the selection screen". What do you mean? The dashed box that surrounds the selected object? Why would you want to remove it?

tsunami, on Feb 25 2006, 07:02 PM, said:

- i can't seem to save my themes using the "file->save" option. i can save just fine by selecting "file->save as" and overwritting the current theme.ini but the "file->save" gives me a pop-up box saying, "An error has occured while attempting to save the theme". i'm sorry that i don't have more info to give you on this but i couldn't find a theme editor log to submit with this post.

Don't worry too much about this error, if you have changed an image or something and the Theme Editor can't save the image for some reason (those missing directories a few releases back come to mind) then it will show the error. But it will probably save the theme ok anyway.

[emphatic]

I guess that Tom is working on the V2 theme issues (bad game links etc) since Theme Editor 1.1 wasn't in GameEx 5.74. Any estimates when 1.1 will be included?
*cough* hurry up *cough*

Emph

[TSpeirs]

emphatic, on Feb 26 2006, 03:26 PM, said:

I guess that Tom is working on the V2 theme issues (bad game links etc) since Theme Editor 1.1 wasn't in GameEx 5.74. Any estimates when 1.1 will be included?
*cough* hurry up *cough*

Emph

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes correct I am working on the issues first. I am being honest here but I have not even had a chance to look at 1.1. Although rest assured I am still spending tons of time on GameEx.

Other than that your'll just have to wait, I don't like providing estimates as this is supposed to be fun for me, and I know for Headkaze too.

[castcreator]

For the control panel viewer, is ther a way to add weither or not a game requires a 2way, 4way or 8way joystick? I have a 4way/8way joystick and it is hard to remember which games (of 6000) use a 4way joystick!!!

[vuduman67]

Is there a way to change the color of the "title" Words. I can change the size and font but the color only has hue and saturation and seems to have no effect. Thanks

[TSpeirs]

vuduman67, on Apr 11 2006, 03:14 PM, said:

Is there a way to change the color of the "title" Words. I can change the size and font but the color only has hue and saturation and seems to have no effect. Thanks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This should be possible in the next release of GameEx. I am a little busy with real world stuff at the moment, but should not be too long.

Thanks.

[vuduman67]

TSpeirs, on Apr 11 2006, 01:53 PM, said:

This should be possible in the next release of GameEx. I am a little busy with real world stuff at the moment, but should not be too long.

Thanks.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I hate when real world stuff gets in the way of fun!

Thanks for such great support, you da man!

[Rockhead]

Hi there. Just wondering if control panel layout in theme editor can be incorporated into Gameex. If so, will it be compatible with control.ini file?

Thanks.

[peterson65]

is there any way using the theme editor to edit a allready complete theme and change the resolution?
i have an arcade monitor running at 640x288 and some of the 800x600 themes on the theme page look
cool but not on my screen (too big)
thanks

[amos_82]

The easiest way is to open the theme you want to convert using the theme editor, & print the screen. Then clip the printed screen down. You want the edge of the image to disect the centre of the green dotted lines around the edges of the frame in the theme editor (this helps an accurate resize). Save as a png, and resize to image to the desired resolution.

Here's one i resized from 800x600 to 640x480

 Alpha_640.jpg   200.8K   114 downloads

Now copy the folder of the theme you want to resize & replace the startbak & bak.png with your resized image. When you open that theme in the editor, you should be able to line up the boxes. The text will also need to be resized + the font size in the gameex config app will need to be decreased in size if your shrinking resolutions, (this can be added into the theme.ini).

(The actual images in the media & logo folder dont need to be resized because gameex does it automatically, so the theme.ini is the only thing that needs to change).

If there are errors when starting up your theme they are most likely down to the size of the menu/list/image boxes, just fiddle around & eventually you'll find a position that fits it all in.

Hope this helps

[movieman317]

amos_82, on Jun 19 2006, 05:18 PM, said:

The easiest way is to open the theme you want to convert using the theme editor, & print the screen. Then clip the printed screen down. You want the edge of the image to disect the centre of the green dotted lines around the edges of the frame in the theme editor (this helps an accurate resize). Save as a png, and resize to image to the desired resolution.

Here's one i resized from 800x600 to 640x480

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Now copy the folder of the theme you want to resize & replace the startbak & bak.png with your resized image. When you open that theme in the editor, you should be able to line up the boxes. The text will also need to be resized + the font size in the gameex config app will need to be decreased in size if your shrinking resolutions, (this can be added into the theme.ini).

(The actual images in the media & logo folder dont need to be resized because gameex does it automatically, so the theme.ini is the only thing that needs to change).

If there are errors when starting up your theme they are most likely down to the size of the menu/list/image boxes, just fiddle around & eventually you'll find a position that fits it all in.

Hope this helps

i have Adobe phtoshop cs2 love the program what i want is to take my pictures and run it threw theme
editor for gameex version 5.97 but how which folder do you start with then how do i import my pictures into theme editor

[Marker0077]

I'd like to know how to use the "Menu" field with the "PC Games" preset emulator profile.

I'd also like to know if there is a way to change all the layouts at once, instead of editing them 1 by 1 (I am referring to the Emulators layout, not main menus).

LATE EDIT:
Also, even when you change the snap/logo size in the theme editor, it still shows the original size. It's also not saving the changes that I've made in the theme editor. It'll save the different position I put the menu or image field in the actual theme, however, when I load it up in the theme editor again, all changes have not been saved.

Any way to correct this?

[headkaze]

Hi Marker, thanks for the bug report. It seems a few people have reported the Theme Editor not saving settings. I will check into it, unfortunately due to a recent virus attack I have needed to re-install everything from scratch on my dev machine. My dev environment has to be set up again before I can compile any fixes.

Second, if you want to use the same layout in several themes, you can copy and paste the layout information contained in the theme's ini file to another file.

Not sure what you mean by "menu" field, again I don't have access to it right now.

[bazzman69]

headkaze, on Jul 9 2006, 02:05 PM, said:

Hi Marker, thanks for the bug report. It seems a few people have reported the Theme Editor not saving settings. I will check into it, unfortunately due to a recent virus attack I have needed to re-install everything from scratch on my dev machine. My dev environment has to be set up again before I can compile any fixes.

Second, if you want to use the same layout in several themes, you can copy and paste the layout information contained in the theme's ini file to another file.

Not sure what you mean by "menu" field, again I don't have access to it right now.

hi i have the same problem also, i ve imported mamewah layouts for all my emus and they show up fine in game ex the only thing is all the lists, snaps etc revert back to there original position even though they where moved and saved to suit my needs any help would be gratefull cheers barrie

[lingpanda]

Any way to resize the menu? Everytime I try it doesnt change. Aslo can you have different layouts for each background? Like a different layout for start and mame? It seems like they all use the same layout.

[lingpanda]

http://www.irfanview.com/ I use this tool to resize and change my icons. Easily lets you save a jpg to a png.

[headkaze]

lingpanda, on Jul 15 2006, 10:04 AM, said:

Any way to resize the menu? Everytime I try it doesnt change. Aslo can you have different layouts for each background? Like a different layout for start and mame? It seems like they all use the same layout.

Not exactly sure how much resizing the menu object effects the list display in GameEx. This depends on how Tom uses the layout information saved in the Theme's ini file. My guess is that since it uses set font sizes, resizing the menu would only effect the bounding box, not the font size.

At the moment you can't use different layouts for each screen but Tom is constantly adding more support for the Theme Editor, so it's not impossible to think that it might be added in the near future.

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http://www.irfanview.com/ I use this tool to resize and change my icons. Easily lets you save a jpg to a png.

You can resize the icons directly in the Theme Editor by either dragging the corner of the logo, or by entering in the Width and Height in the boxes for per pixel accuracy.

You can also easily change logos in the Theme Editor.. for example, you could search for "N64" on Google's image search. When you find a logo you like, just right click it and select "Copy", go into the Theme Editor and select the N64 logo, select the paste icon and it should paste it over the top, then just resize if you want and save. Couldn't be any more easier!

If you need to remove the background by making it black, you could of course paste the image into an image editor like Photoshop before and paste it into the Theme Editor. Or you can click the "Edit" button and it will load the default graphic editor set in the Options.

[lingpanda]

Is there a bug with the taskbar not displaying correctly?