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[TSpeirs]

lingpanda, on Jul 16 2006, 02:44 PM, said:

Is there a bug with the taskbar not displaying correctly?

What does "not displaying correctly" actualy mean? I mean what happens?

[amos_82]

Its a bit of a strange one Tom
The toolbar on version 1 themes works perfectly, problems only arise with version 2.

V2 Toolbars: Images taken with media controls enabled & music playing...
Always show:
Works fine


Show When Mouse Over:
The buttons on the left of the toolbar only appear on focus one at a time, media controls aren't visible







Always Hide:
Shows the whole toolbar, but without any of the buttons working.

[lingpanda]

TSpeirs, on Jul 16 2006, 10:46 AM, said:

What does "not displaying correctly" actualy mean? I mean what happens?

Open Theme Editor. Creat New theme using default v2 800x600. Change start background to anything. Now save and exit. Start GameEx and change themes to the new one you just created. Taskbar no longer works when "only show taskbar when mouse over it" option is on. Taskbar appears to be stretched. Over laps some portions. Missing portions. The theme I just created "Arcade Classic" has this problem. Thx.

[amos_82]

lingpanda, on Jul 16 2006, 04:09 PM, said:

Taskbar appears to be stretched. Over laps some portions. Missing portions.

Thats because you've accidentally used some toolbar images from a version 1 theme. The dimensions & cut-off points in the images vary between version 1 & 2 themes. Some of toolbar images in your theme are longer than they should be, which has caused the overlap. To fix the strecthing, have a look in the 'Default - Custom V2 Default 800x600' media folder to weed out the bad images.

[lingpanda]

amos_82, on Jul 16 2006, 11:15 AM, said:

Thats because you've accidentally used some toolbar images from a version 1 theme. The dimensions & cut-off points in the images vary between version 1 & 2 themes. Some of toolbar images in your theme are longer than they should be, which has caused the overlap. To fix the strecthing, have a look in the 'Default - Custom V2 Default 800x600' media folder to weed out the bad images.

Thats what I thought. But like I just wrote to Tom. I created a new theme from the v2 default. Only changed the start background and have the taskbar problem. Any ideas?

[lingpanda]

Having another issue. When I change the emulator background. I continue to have the start background displayed. I open GameEx. Choose emulated games. Yet I still see the start background. Am I doing something wrong?

lingpanda, on Jul 21 2006, 11:17 AM, said:

Having another issue. When I change the emulator background. I continue to have the start background displayed. I open GameEx. Choose emulated games. Yet I still see the start background. Am I doing something wrong?

I figured it out. Seems the background doesnt change till you actually choose a emulator. Any new theme editor updates coming soon? Thx.

[super dog]

I just downloaded GameEx 6.49 and installed it so we're at version 1.51 of the Theme editor. I cannot get the editor to save any changes made. I'm going to go back and read the help file again (which will probably say - saves not included yet - now that I've posted here first), but something seems to be very wrong if it does.

[lingpanda]

super dog, on Jul 22 2006, 05:38 PM, said:

I just downloaded GameEx 6.49 and installed it so we're at version 1.51 of the Theme editor. I cannot get the editor to save any changes made. I'm going to go back and read the help file again (which will probably say - saves not included yet - now that I've posted here first), but something seems to be very wrong if it does.

When you change the background it doesnt save? I had that problem. In order for me to fix this. I had to make sure I always resized my image. Even if I was making a theme 800x600. Imported a background that was 800x600. I still had to change it to 800x600 manually.

[super dog]

Thanks Lingpanda, I'll give that a try, making all the background the same size. But yes, I can't get the backgrounds to save for anything as of this moment.

(10 minutes later) That fixed my problem! Thanks Ling! I've been setting up our screens, which is why an edit took me so long! Now we can apply our idea of dragons / unicorns to our menus!

Thank you !

[headkaze]

Yeah sorry about that, the save bug should be fixed next release

[lingpanda]

headkaze, on Jul 23 2006, 12:26 AM, said:

Yeah sorry about that, the save bug should be fixed next release

Status update? New features? Thanks.

[super dog]

This may just be a "buggy" thing, but we've noticed that the menu placement stays the same as it is in MAME....in other words, no way to position them for specific emulators apparently. Or are we doing something wrong?

I hate to ask all these questions - but I am just nutty for GameEx and am thrilled about the prospects of being able to FINALLY be able to get it set up so that I can not only have a menu screen but our own backgrounds. I've tried them all and this is the only one that makes any sense to me!

Thanks again ahead of time!

[lingpanda]

super dog, on Jul 23 2006, 12:08 PM, said:

This may just be a "buggy" thing, but we've noticed that the menu placement stays the same as it is in MAME....in other words, no way to position them for specific emulators apparently. Or are we doing something wrong?

No not at this moment.

[headkaze]

Okay, I think I've squashed the save bug, but I'm not totally sure. Attached is the exe file you can just overwrite your existing one. Please report back here if there are any more saving problems.

GameEx Theme Editor v1.54 BETA

- fixed save bug (hopefully)

[headkaze]

I found another save bug today, this time it was quite suprising, I had no idea GDI+ locked image files when you opened them and wouldn't close the file until you did a <object>.Dispose(). It's ridiculous what you have to do to get around this problem.

GameEx Theme Editor v1.61

- Fixed another save bug (GDI+ file lock)
- Changed a few visual features

Attached Files

•  ThemeEditor.zip   191.45K   32 downloads

[lingpanda]

headkaze, on Jul 25 2006, 03:01 AM, said:

I found another save bug today, this time it was quite suprising, I had no idea GDI+ locked image files when you opened them and wouldn't close the file until you did a <object>.Dispose(). It's ridiculous what you have to do to get around this problem.

GameEx Theme Editor v1.61

- Fixed another save bug (GDI+ file lock)
- Changed a few visual features

Thx for the update.

[super dog]

Amen to what Ling said - thanks Kaze!

[lingpanda]

Any way to make the text wrap when you change the size of the list? I noticed it runs off the screen when reduced from its default state.

[headkaze]

lingpanda, on Jul 31 2006, 09:32 AM, said:

Any way to make the text wrap when you change the size of the list? I noticed it runs off the screen when reduced from its default state.

Could you possibly post a screenshot of this? I need to know if this is a Theme Editor or GameEx issue.

[lingpanda]

headkaze, on Jul 30 2006, 11:26 PM, said:

Could you possibly post a screenshot of this? I need to know if this is a Theme Editor or GameEx issue.

I think this is a GameEx issue. Look where it describes the name of the game.