RetroFE development

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I'm playing around a bit with the default menu animation for Aeon Nox (default theme). It feels a bit sluggish to me, so I've (locally) changed the starting speed to .25 seconds (down from .35 seconds). It does feel a bit more responsive that way. Feel free to play around with it on your own theme settings, and let me know what you think?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I'm also considering changing the release setup a bit. I'm currently using the bx postfix to indicate it's a beta release for a new upcoming release, but I think I will switch to increasing the middle number more often, so simply use 0.x.0 for the release, and then 0.x.y for the incremental changes. 0.x.beta-y will then be reserved for true beta releases in preparation for a full release. This would result in:
0.8.0 (full release)
0.8.y (y > 0, incremental changes on 0.8.0)
0.9.beta-z (beta release z for release 0.9.0)
0.9.0 (next full release)
Any thoughts?

[shatshoes]

sounds good

[Tom Acunzo]

It's a bit redundant, 0.x.y is all beta until 1.0 and beyond is out right?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I guess I could use RC (release candidate) in stead. 😀 The idea though is to only do bug fixes during that time.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I'm playing around a bit with the default menu animation for Aeon Nox (default theme). It feels a bit sluggish to me, so I've (locally) changed the starting speed to .25 seconds (down from .35 seconds). It does feel a bit more responsive that way. Feel free to play around with it on your own theme settings, and let me know what you think?

Has anyone played around with this, and is able/willing to give me some feedback? This is always an issue between fast animation and smooth animation, and I'm trying to find an optimum.

[Tom Acunzo]

All my themes are broken.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

All my themes are broken.

Which themes are broken, and in which way?

[cassette]

I'm interested on having a different background image load every time the selection changes. So for example:

[NES] background: image of Super Mario Bros. 3
>
[Mega Drive] background: image of Gunstar Heroes
>
[NES] background: image of Crystalis

Is this something that can already be done or is this what "Randomization of art alternative selection, animations, etc." refers to?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

That's what the randomisation refers to. It's not yet available.

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[cassette]

Cool, just wanted to be sure.

edit: I think this is covered by the planned UTF-8 support feature but I just wanted to report that "Pokémon Mini", "NEO・GEO CD" and "Odyssey²" can't be the name of collections because if they are logo.png (perhaps neither are the games, I didn't go that far) isn't recognized and it defaults to a boring text name .

[FrankyRizzo]

Cool, just wanted to be sure.

edit: I think this is covered by the planned UTF-8 support feature but I just wanted to report that "Pokémon Mini", "NEO・GEO CD" and "Odyssey²" can't be the name of collections because if they are logo.png (perhaps neither are the games, I didn't go that far) isn't recognized and it defaults to a boring text name .

My guess is the special characters just aren't supported. 

[Pieter Hulshoff]

My guess is the special characters just aren't supported.

RetroFE was programmed to use standard C++ strings, which indeed do not support UTF-8. It's quite a big program wide change to get this supported, but it's certainly on my to-do list.

[iGarikoitz]

The loading of art now always waits until the animations are complete. The onHighlightExit animation doesn't trigger until all menu animations have stopped.

It's basically:
- menu actions
- onHighlightExit
- load art
- onHighlightEnter

Can I disable this? Because it break my theme

[Pieter Hulshoff]

The loading of art now always waits until the animations are complete. The onHighlightExit animation doesn't trigger until all menu animations have stopped.

It's basically:
- menu actions
- onHighlightExit
- load art
- onHighlightEnter

Can I disable this? Because it break my theme

How exactly does it break your theme if I may ask? Which theme would that be?