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Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - StuartTheFish - 01-17-2017
Hi all, just thought I'd finally register on here since I've been using Dolphin for years now. :-)
Just wondering, are there any plans to make a tv friendly rom selection menu, similar to the wii system menu or steam big picture mode? Or even just an option to make each row in the list much bigger? Now I've got a 4k tv, they're REALLY hard to see from the sofa!
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - MayImilae - 01-17-2017
We've already made a number of concepts on the UI and how it would all work. However implementing that would be quite difficult... So plans for the feature have stalled out.
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - StuartTheFish - 01-17-2017
Even an option to further increase the height of each row wouls help, as on a 4k tv they're tiny.
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - MayImilae - 01-17-2017
There is a @2x icon set. You could just rename the @2x ones to the regular names and you'll have icons that are twice as big. Maybe that will help?
Also, you could just use hotkeys. ^ᴗ^
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - JosJuice - 01-17-2017
Which version of Dolphin are you using? If it's not a development build that's newer than 5.0, updating to the newest development build should make the rows bigger.
(01-17-2017, 05:36 PM)MayImilae Wrote: There is a @2x icon set. You could just rename the @2x ones to the regular names and you'll have icons that are twice as big. Maybe that will help?
Doesn't DolphinWX do this funny thing where it crops icons that are bigger than usual? Or did the HiDPI improvements PR change that?
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - MayImilae - 01-17-2017
Josjuice: as long as all of them are the same size its fine.
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - StuartTheFish - 01-18-2017
I didn't know about a 2x icon set, where would I get this? Even that may do, as it'd then double the size of each row. Would the font size also increase to suit?
I'm using a relatively recent test build of dolphin 5.0, not sure on the exact version until I get home from work.
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - JosJuice - 01-18-2017
(01-18-2017, 12:37 AM)StuartTheFish Wrote: I didn't know about a 2x icon set, where would I get this?
It's included with Dolphin if your Dolphin version isn't too old. All the icons are in Sys/Themes and Sys/Resources.
(01-18-2017, 12:37 AM)StuartTheFish Wrote: Would the font size also increase to suit?
No. You need to update to a recent development version if you want that.
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - StuartTheFish - 01-18-2017
Right, just checked what version I'm on, and its 5.0-1480, a recent test build. So where would I find the options to increase the icon and font size?
So there's been no success at making something like the wii system menu to launch our games from?
RE: Is it possible to make a GUI similar to the system menu or steam big picture? - JosJuice - 01-18-2017
(01-18-2017, 07:17 PM)StuartTheFish Wrote: Right, just checked what version I'm on, and its 5.0-1480, a recent test build. So where would I find the options to increase the icon and font size?
That should be recent enough.
There's no option for it in Dolphin. The change is that recent versions of Dolphin will respect the operating system's scale. If you want to make things in Dolphin bigger, you'll have to look for your operating system's option for making windows bigger.
(01-18-2017, 07:17 PM)StuartTheFish Wrote: So there's been no success at making something like the wii system menu to launch our games from?
No, there's hasn't been anything like that yet.