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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.8 [Release] Updated 10 September 2020

« on: September 18, 2020, 08:22:18 AM »

Hmm can you try giving this command from a shell?

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mkdir "D:\AM\TESTTESTTEST/"and see if it works? It should create a TESTTESTTEST folder inside your AM folder.

Yes, work

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.8 [Release] Updated 10 September 2020

« on: September 17, 2020, 05:03:35 AM »

Yep, auto update assumes you are not changing the Arcadeflow folder name, so Arcadeflow_87 should be your current folder, and it will be upgraded to Arcadeflow_88, and the attract.cfg will be updated accordingly.

I have done a test and I have put the layout as Arcadeflow_87 and I have assigned it to the emulators.
This is how it should be, right? although the problem is the same

There's an alternative though: make a backup copy of your current Arcadeflow directory just to be sure, and simply extract the new archive "on top" of the old one. It should not touch your preference files!

I do so normally and no problem

PD: Are you still working on more news and layout changes? I prefer to wait to update the Spanish translation (I have seen new things)

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.8 [Release] Updated 10 September 2020

« on: September 17, 2020, 04:02:53 AM »

I have copied the files: Arcadeflow_88.tar.gz and latest_version.txt to the Arcadeflow folder.

I start AM and I get that there is a new version, I select download and install and I get this:



But when starting again it tries to load the Arcadeflow_88 layout and as it does not exist it does not load any layout.

Sorry

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.8 [Release] Updated 10 September 2020

« on: September 13, 2020, 10:06:19 AM »

Hi Paolo,
sorry for not answering earlier.

It doesn't work with the curl.exe file in Arcadeflow:



but I have done it manually from the command line and it works fine:



The problem must be running the command with curl.exe.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.7 [Release] Updated 18 August 2020

« on: August 29, 2020, 10:59:23 AM »

Yes, I use windows 7.
I don't know how Curl works, so I'll update arcadeflow manually.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.7 [Release] Updated 18 August 2020

« on: August 29, 2020, 03:47:21 AM »

I have deleted all the "--silent" from layout.nut and nothing new happens

I have found an issue: when using "curl" in Windows the output is very different than on Unix systems and options are different too...

Try substituting "--output" in the layout.nut with "-o" that should make it work (I hope)

No, sorry:

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.7 [Release] Updated 18 August 2020

« on: August 28, 2020, 04:30:12 AM »

I have deleted all the "--silent" from layout.nut and nothing new happens

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.7 [Release] Updated 18 August 2020

« on: August 28, 2020, 03:28:23 AM »

Yes, I do not see any message that warns that there is a new version. In the main menu it puts updates, but if I select nothing happens. I have configured "Download and install" and I have also tried "Download only"

Aw, this auto-update feature is a nightmare Do you have any error messages in the logs? I'll check if something wrong and fix it in the next release, you'll have to manually update in the meantime

this works?
I see the pref_update.txt file is missing

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.7 [Release] Updated 18 August 2020

« on: August 25, 2020, 07:45:20 AM »

Online update run?

? Do you mean if it works? Well it should :/ Did you have issues with the update?

Yes, I do not see any message that warns that there is a new version. In the main menu it puts updates, but if I select nothing happens. I have configured "Download and install" and I have also tried "Download only"

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.7 [Release] Updated 18 August 2020

« on: August 23, 2020, 09:21:43 AM »

Hi Paolo

Online update run?

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.4 [Release] Updated 13 July 2020

« on: July 16, 2020, 10:10:11 AM »

Hi

I have seen that you have added the option to hide the game title about the snapshot, but not when you are in boxart mode





By the way, it would be nice to be able to see the title of the game about the snapshot only for a few seconds and then it disappears. So when the video starts it wouldn't bother.

Something like that (photoshop):



And another thing, does the option to update the layout from the layout itself work?

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.3 [Release] Updated 30 June 2020

« on: July 08, 2020, 03:44:47 AM »

Thanks! 

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.3 [Release] Updated 30 June 2020

« on: July 07, 2020, 10:10:52 AM »

but I wanted to see how it works with 1 single normal line and I think that maybe the images are too big and it's very close to the scroll bar ... Maybe once it could be reduced a little, what do you think?

Hmm you know, I really like those gigantic 1-row thumbnails but it's true they are a bit overwhelming, and also cover up a bit of the scrollbar. It would be fairly easy to reduce the size of the "zoomed" thumb, a bit more difficult for the "non zoomed" ones. I'll play with the settings and see if I can find a good compromise...

In the meantime, if you dare, you can change the zoom ratio yourself look for this line in the code

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local selectorscale = (rows == 1 ? (vertical ? 1.15 : 1.45) : ((prf.SCROLLERTYPE == "labellist") ? 1.4 : 1.5) )

selectorscale is the target zoom ratio of the current thumbnail. To translate my obscure variable system, if there's a single row in the layout, scale is 1.45 (in an horizontal layout like yours), otherwise, if the scrollbar is with labels it's 1.4, while the "default" is 1.5. Try to play with this number, puttins like 1.3 instead of 1.45 and see what happens.

I've tried on 1.4, and I think shifting the row up a bit I think would be enough. It's possible?
Taking as reference the image brightness I think that there is not the same distance between the image and the text above and below

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.3 [Release] Updated 30 June 2020

« on: July 05, 2020, 11:28:58 AM »

Hi Paolo

I have a suggestion today.

I'm doing tests and I want to use a single horizontal line (1-small)





but I wanted to see how it works with 1 single normal line and I think that maybe the images are too big and it's very close to the scroll bar ... Maybe once it could be reduced a little, what do you think?

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 8.3 [Release] Updated 30 June 2020

« on: July 02, 2020, 10:37:58 AM »

I see that when you chose the Dreamcast display, Arcadeflow restarts. This is not the expected behavior, check if you have set attract mode start behavior ad "Show last selected (default)". If you want to start with displays menu you can set it in AF options, not in AM options.

"Show last selected (default)" It is the option that I have checked.

I have configured the Dysplay Menu from AF and whenever I change my system, AF restarts.
I have tried several options and it always happened the same.

The only option I have found has been to download Attract Mode and the latest AF again and reconfigure the emulators.
I have tried and now it seems that everything is fine and I have not seen any black box.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/bv3shk9gh31snx5/2020.07.02-19.16.mp4/file

I don't know what the problem was, maybe so many updates and tests?