Crashes with my theme

[gedditoffme]

Hello all,

Just registered my copy of GameEx, but having trouble getting the themes working. I was stuffing around with 'Eye Candy', but noticed it wasn't changing the background when I went to the emulators section. I was expecting it to move the platform-specific background (eg: the Zelda in the N64 emulator).

I opened it in theme editor and started manually re-adding the background images (which were mostly blank), saved it again. Now it is throwing fatal errors whenever I open gamex with my skin applied.

The error is referring to "D:\GameEx\themes\Default - Media Center\MEDIA\StartBak.bmp" - which is strange since i think all my files were in \themes\EyeCandy2\

The file it refers to doesn't exist. I tried adding a file there and it just found a different reason to crash.

I tried copying the V1theme to V2 files over Eye Candy before doing this - I thought this was the right thing to do, but thinking maybe I was wrong now - it is the only thing I can think of that might have confused the process. The theme still opens fine in theme editor.

Other themes still work - any ideas how to fix it?

[Draco1962]

I had a similar error when starting a new theme as Theme Editor requires that you use another theme to "seed" for a new one. I would suggest going into the gameex\data directory and delete all files with cache in the name. You may also want to start with a fresh copy of the original theme to ensure that it is working correctly for you. You will probably want to avoid using Theme Editor to copy images into as much as possible and, instead, use an image editor to open the file, make any changes and Save As to the theme's directory to whatever file name you need it to be. GameEx will pickup the new file and display it if there is a proper path to is in the emulator's configuration section within the Advanced Configuration.

[gedditoffme]

Hello,

I tried copying the images (and filenames) I generated when playing with the theme editor into a new copy of the original theme. They still aren't showing in the background when I select the emulators in GameEx. Am I correct to assume it should appear there?

What is the filename format I should be following to make it work?

[Draco1962]

jpg and png are well supported. You may need to go into the Advanced Configuration for your emulators and "browse" to the logo file in question. You may want to post a copy of your gameex.ini file (zip it then upload to your reply) so that we can review your setup.

[gedditoffme]

Hello,

Thanks - manually updating all the emulators backgrounds worked, but was annoyingly time consuming. If there's anything in my .ini file that obviously stops me just selecting a new theme, i would be grateful to know

But at least I have it working now.

GameEx.zip