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Themes / Re: I present... AMBuilder: Layout Designer!

« on: June 12, 2017, 02:07:00 PM »

Thanks for the feedback!

To do a background, you don't need to use a surface and can just use any image including just the default pixel.png by setting the color. You may have had an issue with the zorder, which confused me as well. The default is sets all objects to -1 zorder, which means to create the objects in the order you add them to the layout. That's what it *should* do, but there could be bugs. Though if you do modify zorders to force it, use a different one for each object to ensure they are drawn in the order you expect (higher number draws on top).

Right now, 16x9 is actually using a resolution of 1024x576. The idea was to design for the lowest resolution of that aspect and scale it up. That may not all be fully implemented, and I'll be working on what aspects/resolutions should be available soon. I think for now you could probably just design your 16x9 layout, then set the layout width and height to 1920x1080 and preserve_aspect_ratio to true under the Layout settings and that should work.

As for fonts, at least on Windows I think they should work without needing to install them. Let me know if your on a different OS.

Hello,

Abt windows font needing to be installed i think it is the case, as when i had not installed it i had default fonts, then as soon as i double clicked it to install it it worked perfectly.

I would suggest (i know it is easy to say and less when it is abt to implement it , that you could maybe use the sort of elements treeview to sort them according to a hierarchy.
I mean the ones you want to be in background you set them in first position (with something like + - buttons) and this way the zorder would be more pictured, as the different elements position in the treeview would show also the zorder position. i hope it makes sense, i m not even sure i can reread myself well .

Thank you !

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General / Re: AM intermittently does not return focus on exit

« on: June 12, 2017, 02:02:16 PM »

hello,

Here i solved many problems with focus losing when launching or leaving, hiding the console in attract.cfg, setting hide_console  to yes,
then also leaving Fill screen as window mode, and also running attract mode as administrator and also setting it with compatibility mode for windows 7.
Also something pretty important i noticed is to map your attract mode exit hotkey in emulator, the same as the one you use with the emulator.
Seems it gives back the focus to AM.

Hope this helps

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Themes / Re: I present... AMBuilder: Layout Designer!

« on: June 07, 2017, 03:34:11 PM »

Hello,

i just gave a try to your app, it is working very well congratulations for the time and the GUI which is nice and user friendly !

I now have some questions

- To set up a background, you have to create a surface first is that right ? otherwise the background is not displayed when using the theme.

- When you select HD 16/9, i am guessing i have a resolution of 1920x1080 but it seems despite i try to set it in the layout res, i cannot get that size, so the display is shrinked once in AM.

- I have not understood how zorder was working. i tried to set text over another text, but despite the zorder, i cannot get it to display on screen in AM despite i see it in the app GUI.

- Finally, i used a font i uploaded, but despite i see it well in the app GUI, i dont have it working in AM. is there a step to perform to have it, like including it into the zip resources or something ?


Thanks again for this great work !

Update : I just realised i had used the font in your app, but forgotten to install it into my system. Once done it works perfectly !