collection layout woes.

[balric]

I am trying to create a new look on game room skin when arcade is selected. I want a modified background and a cabinet instead of a tv displaying the games. The problem I have is changes to the layout.xml in layouts/game room/collections/arcade/layout/ aren't being shown in retrofe. any ideas ?

so from attachment untitled2 to untitled.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

You're only changing the Arcade collection layout? What version of RetroFE are you running?

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[balric]

Thank you for replying. The version is 0.7.20
and cabinet for arcade, was also thinking I might change tv set to ones fitting the age of collection machine. But hopefully that will be easier just scale tv to size of main.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Ok, what exactly doesn't work, and can you share the updated xml code?

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[balric]

Got the background to show up, but can see old background also big delay switching. any way to flush the other assets ? cant remove tv either or display video lol.

I'm sure the layout has tons of lines that aren't needed.

[ryuuji]

that is from other layout not game room

[balric]

I tried with yours and old school game room to make sure problems were not isolated to either skin.

[ryuuji]

well to remove a image from the layout you have to remove the entry in the layout xml which is for that image

[balric]

The problem I seem to have is the main layout.xml takes preference over the collection layout.xml. All assets still reside no matter what. As there is.t a flush command

[ryuuji]

you have to hide it when entering menuindex 1 I guess ...

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  <image src="images/image.png" alpha="1" x="center" xOrigin="center" y="0" layer="13">
  <onMenuExit menuIndex="0">
    <set duration=".01">
  <animate type="alpha" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
  </onMenuExit>
  <onMenuEnter menuIndex="0">
    <set duration=".01">
  <animate type="alpha" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
</set>
  </onMenuEnter>
</image>

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Feel free to zip up the theme, and I'll have a look at it to see where things need changing. I can't imagine it being too hard. Worst case I'll discover a bug in RetroFE, but I think it's just an XML issue.

[balric]

I have tried zipping theme and adding as an attachment but not creating the post

Is there a limit to the size of an attachment ?

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ewpvee2m6wykvfp/Old_School_Game_Room.rar

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Yes, there's a 4 MB limit I believe. Worst case you can email it to me.

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[balric]

I have a link to it on my previous post, thanks

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I had a quick look; you really should consider reading the manual some time. It should provide you with an answer to a lot of the issues you're looking at here.

Most importantly: when you enter a new layout, you're not entering a menu, and the menuIndex is reset to 0. When you exit a layout, you're not exiting a menu, and the previous menuIndex is restored.
Consequences: replace your onMenuEnter animations with onEnter animations, and onMenuExit animations with onExit animations. In addition, since I don't think you'll define more menu layers below this one, you can remove all menuIndex attributes.

Another point: when you use an image with src="images/selector.png", RetroFE will (in this case), first look for layouts/Old School Game Room/collections/Arcade/layout/images/selector.png, and if it cannot find it there it will look for layouts/Old School Game Room/images/selector.png. It will certainly not look in layouts/Old School Game Room/collections/Arcade/system_artwork/.

One last pointer: if you want Linux users to be able to use this layout as well, please remember that in Linux all file names and directory names are case sensitive.