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A couple of versions ago the vertical scrolling text on my theme doesn’t scroll smoothly, the lines move up and down as they are scrolling.

Any ideas on what could be the issue?


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Introducing GLaDOS.

The idea behind this theme is to provide a unified look across the entire setup, which lights up when media is available but is completely usable when it isn't. The theme shows a system image, manufacturer logo, year and system type on the main menu, and box art, cart art, rating and genre on the sub menu. It uses a logo based wheel, which simply shows text when no logo is available.

GLaDOS was originally adapted from the Flatio theme, and contains some art assets from that theme.

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SCREENSHOTS
- Main Menu


- System Menu


VIDEO
https://youtu.be/DBoL_jQcshI

SETUP / DOWNLOADS

- Github
https://github.com/nicktones/GLaDOS-16x9

- Latest Release (v2.0)
https://github.com/nicktones/GLaDOS-16x9/archive/v2.0.zip

- Collection Info Files
This is a set of over 180 collection info.conf files, each with the system type, manufacturer and year included.  Simply drop them into the collection folder and the theme will pick up the info from there.  Thanks to dougan78 for creating these.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44d0lVcmUwc0JfNUE

- Manufacturer Logos
This is an updated set of manufacturer logos, from those included with the RetroFE release.  This is not yet complete, and logos aren't as high a quality as they could be - please post if you have better versions of these logos.  Add these to retrofe\collections\_common\medium_artwork\manufacturer\

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44VEN5SzVCaHVrVjA

- Score Logos
This is an updated set of score logos, from those included with the RetroFE release. These images are not mine, but fit the theme nicely.  Add these to retrofe\collections\_common\medium_artwork\score\

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44UzdKUEdWZkpFTkk

- System Stories & Device Images
This is collection of system device images, along with a story file for each system.  The device image and the story text files are all in system sub folders and are named device.png and story.txt for drop in use with RetroFE.  Mostly speaking the story files are the first couple of paragraphs from wikipedia, other sources were also used.
So far there are 120 story files completed, and the rest are being worked on.  System images aren't complete, again please post if you have better examples or missing images.

I personally have these in my Media folder - Media\System Images\<system_name>\ - you will need to update the collection settings.conf option, media.system_artwork.  It seems RetroFE looks in this place for system images and system story files - provided they are named story.txt and device.png. The batch file and replace tool linked below is useful for mass editing collection options.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By09f_kX5Z44cnU4NTBhbzJFR2s

Batch File and Replace Tool
This batch find and replace tool is useful for setting paths in multiple collections in one go - https://findandreplace.codeplex.com

CHANGELOG
v2.0 (17/04/2017)
- Refreshed visuals

v1.3 (19/03/2017)
- Fixed game meta data text centre align

v1.2 (19/03/2017)
- Cart image size and position tweaks
- Number of players and score icon added to game screen

v1.1 (29/01/2017)
- loadFontSize added to text fields.  Text is now much smoother.  (Thanks to ryuuji)

v1.0 (21/01/2017)
- Initial release

Hi all,

Is it possible to use the layout scrolling text facility to display the game name from the database?  I see that the wiki only mentions that scrolling text can be used to pull from a text file.

Ideally, I'd like to replace the reloadableText used for the game name tag in a layout to reloadableScrollingText so that the text scrolls horizontally when the game name has too many characters for the space.  Replacing the tag doesn't show any text - is what I'm after possible without generating thousands of text files?