Change View totally scuppered my bespoke theme :(

[stigzler]

Been working for months on designing new theme to match my cab. I did try to get my head around theme editor, but found it rather unfathomable, and struggled to find any comprehensive help guides on how to use it. I did try via searching these forums, but I do find the forum backend a little lacking....

Anywhoos - do downloaded the excellent AfterDark Theme. Just went through changing all the graphics - no layout changes or anything.

Today, I downloaded another theme, which I saw had a "change view" button - pressed it + wow!! Video and picture previews - how cool!

However, when went back to my theme, all of my pages were messed up. Now I just have a mess of a front end.

RageOn helpfully posted elsewhere that change view was disabled in the theme ini - do re-enabled. However - there seems to be very little rhyme or reason to how the change view cycles - and can't get my theme back to it's default view for love nor money. Sometimes I will be cycling through change view in emulators, for instance and then will all of a sudden jump to mame selection screens.

I really am hoping that there is an easy solution to this and that I haven't just lost months of work.

It's a shame, because a user friendly theme editor would be great + the ability to line up those different views would be fantastic. However, all I want at the moment is just my plain boring text-selection back please!!!

Resolved - just kept cycling! Heh - Still curious now though about the views system! Think I'll wait for the new editor before I go tinkering though! Is it a big overhaul or just tweaks?

[Adultery]

I was gonna mention that there are a lot of views so you need to keep pressing it.

[stigzler]

dammit - can't resist now - I'm gonna have to mod my skin to incorporate all those views! GEx can be incredibly inscrutably sometimes. I wish I could see what it was doing behind the scenes (what graphics and layout files it's calling for instance).

If it aint broke... it aint being run to its full potential...

[Adultery]

What do you mean what graphics it calls? I can probably pint you in the right direction. Most everything is skinnable. Right down to the weather icons.

[stigzler]

Ah thanks adultery - but had a good root round 'views' + think I'll leave it for future redesign of theme editor!

[AlphaUMi]

I don't have an actual example of it, but if you want to radically erase every trace of change view modifications, I noticed that GameEx adds a [Visual "something"] at the end of the GameEx.ini.... don't remember the exact words.

Well, as you know you can open GameEx.ini with notepad. Delete those [visual] stuff and views are reverted to their defaults.

Just to add my 2/cents.

[stigzler]

CHeers Alpha - I couldn't find any entries like that - but comforting this is here for future reference!