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[Aimless_E]

It should be bg-sidebar... I had it as a 1px height to save space. Just scale it up.

Heres the styles for the fonts.

formatted like so:

HTML Color - Style

http://img247.images...eletehc9hy7.png

Heres the "Y"

http://img244.images.../delete2zy3.png

Hmmm the bg-sidbar.png image has no color its just a 1px clear bar. Scaling it up gives me a whole lot of nothing.

In your mockup pic what are the left and right arrows used for?

[Tiptup300]

It should be bg-sidebar... I had it as a 1px height to save space. Just scale it up.

Heres the styles for the fonts.

formatted like so:

HTML Color - Style

http://img247.images...eletehc9hy7.png

Heres the "Y"

http://img244.images.../delete2zy3.png

Hmmm the bg-sidbar.png image has no color its just a 1px clear bar. Scaling it up gives me a whole lot of nothing.

In your mockup pic what are the left and right arrows used for?

Your right, I did screw the bg-sidebar, heres the right file:

http://img360.images...eletehc9no8.png

And ignore the arrows, they're just some bad ideas.

[Aimless_E]

Thanks TipTup300

It looks much better. Still working on the fonts though. See.



Small Update to Game Library. It will be the first step toward the search function. Notice the watermark and remark if you please.

[Yamara]

Small Update to Game Library. It will be the first step toward the search function. Notice the watermark and remark if you please.

I find the watermark distracting, and not in keeping with the clean swaths of solid color (grey is a color ). I suppose you could have an option: default with the logo, no background (grey or chosen solid color), or chosen image as background. As mentioned before, I love the overall look so far, and the direction the interface is going.

[Aimless_E]

Small Update to Game Library. It will be the first step toward the search function. Notice the watermark and remark if you please.

I find the watermark distracting, and not in keeping with the clean swaths of solid color (grey is a color ). I suppose you could have an option: default with the logo, no background (grey or chosen solid color), or chosen image as background. As mentioned before, I love the overall look so far, and the direction the interface is going.

Really? I thought it looked to bland with out it. I'll be adding "theme support" someday but I want to get the rest running first before going overboard. With configuration options.

[Tiptup300]

Looking better and better, although I gotta admit I'm not a fan of the logo being there. =/

[Aimless_E]

Looking better and better, although I gotta admit I'm not a fan of the logo being there. =/

You guys just don't know what's good. I should be able to make a video of it working pretty soon so so stay tuned.

[Aimless_E]

Okay here's a video of ZiB running on my HP mininote. The code is far from optimized but I'm rather happy with how its coming along.



hopefully the next video will have search enabled and maybe several of the settings screen.

[Crunchwrap]

Personally I liked the watermark idea (but maybe something other than the logo?) as it may look better decorated than without..

[TaG]

Thanks for the update Aimless_E. Looks like it is coming along nicely. [blogged]

[Falcon Delta]

Maybe instead of one big logo you could have a slanted tile patern or something.

[Gnuku]

I just tried the hyperspin frontend on windows (not developped on gnu/linux yet)
It is 250 MB and could not be proposed directly in the gp2x wiz or pandora
But could be simply installed on a sd card like all the apps of the gp2x

I am pretty sure that everybody would buy a Pandora or a GP2x wiz with this type of frontend.
If somebody can adapt the hyperspin frontend, it would be the best advertisment for the gnu/linux based consoles like gp2x and Pandora, and ultimatly for all gnu/linux world.

Son Gnuku: the power of freedom

[Tiptup300]

Aimless_E, the video has me slightly "disturbed." The buttons on the sidebar are scaled very poorly. I intended for them to not be scaled at all. Also when it pops up make it about .25 of a second to popin/out. A slow slideout kind of looks sloppy.

I really like the idea of the infobar being slid in. Nice work there.

Also, the group category is supposed to move with the selections. My whole idea is pretty much a giant ripoff of Rock Band's tracklist system, which I assumed someone here has used [apparently not, ] So you could use that for reference of what I mean.

Heres a reference for the RB menu:

Anyways, amazing work. Just need a few tweaks here and there.

Also, heres an icon I made up for the album art thing, which I thought was a great idea:



EDIT: Is there any way you could get full 800x480 screenshots not including your desktop?

Edited by Tiptup300, 07 January 2009 - 09:34 AM.

[hells_dark]

I just tried the hyperspin frontend on windows (not developped on gnu/linux yet)
It is 250 MB and could not be proposed directly in the gp2x wiz or pandora
But could be simply installed on a sd card like all the apps of the gp2x

I dunno but i read "for windows" on their website..
And i don't think it's opensource.

Great Job Aimless_E !

Edited by hells_dark, 07 January 2009 - 12:50 PM.

[Aimless_E]

I just tried the hyperspin frontend on windows (not developped on gnu/linux yet)
It is 250 MB and could not be proposed directly in the gp2x wiz or pandora
But could be simply installed on a sd card like all the apps of the gp2x

I am pretty sure that everybody would buy a Pandora or a GP2x wiz with this type of frontend.
If somebody can adapt the hyperspin frontend, it would be the best advertisment for the gnu/linux based consoles like gp2x and Pandora, and ultimatly for all gnu/linux world.

Son Gnuku: the power of freedom

Uh, not setting out to make a program that's "like" any other program. Thanks though.

Aimless_E, the video has me slightly "disturbed." The buttons on the sidebar are scaled very poorly. I intended for them to not be scaled at all. Also when it pops up make it about .25 of a second to popin/out. A slow slideout kind of looks sloppy.

I really like the idea of the infobar being slid in. Nice work there.

Also, the group category is supposed to move with the selections. My whole idea is pretty much a giant ripoff of Rock Band's tracklist system, which I assumed someone here has used [apparently not, ] So you could use that for reference of what I mean.

Heres a reference for the RB menu:

Anyways, amazing work. Just need a few tweaks here and there.

Also, heres an icon I made up for the album art thing, which I thought was a great idea:



EDIT: Is there any way you could get full 800x480 screenshots not including your desktop?

Side bar for the main menu or sidebar in the games library? I can speed up any of the animations I need to and yes I agree it needs to be a little quicker in the leaving.

Originally I had it setup so that it would behave like your are saying. And I assumed that's what you were ripping off but I found that when you have more than 60 or so games for one emulator its nice to have that constant reminder of what your currently scrolling through. I do plan to have a modified version of your/harmonixs idea. Basically when your are scrolling through and your reach the end of a section the next section appears very much like your rendering. When the Sections "Title" reaches the top line it replaces the old sections title. If you go the other direction then once the previous section has been reached the title bar reverts to that sections title. I have a few SNES roms now and I plan to implement the idea. I'll post a video of it when I have it.

I can take just screen of the program. I just wanted everyone to see that it wasn't just a fancy flash file or another mockup.

Thanks for the "album art" default pic. I was going to ask for one.

I just tried the hyperspin frontend on windows (not developped on gnu/linux yet)
It is 250 MB and could not be proposed directly in the gp2x wiz or pandora
But could be simply installed on a sd card like all the apps of the gp2x

I dunno but i read "for windows" on their website..
And i don't think it's opensource.

Great Job Aimless_E !

Thanks, hells_dark both for the encouragement and for answering Gnuku so concisely