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Hi, friends!
I'm creating a new template for use in QMC2, trying to do the best I can!
Please, give me your impressions about the layout!

http://migre.me/b5NeW

Features: This template knows if you're using MAME, MESS or UME and try to get images from web (ProjectMESS, ProgettoEMMA and ArcadeHits) if the image in local disk are not found.
It also have multilanguage support and if the system have a HD flyer, a link will open the flyer in new screen with full details !
The color of the mddle bar (red in example) also change for each driver maturity status!
Along many other implementations

The layout looks great!

looks cool any chance of a copy?

Thanks
There's a lot of work in this simple template, hehe


Of course.
I just will finish some implementations that I'm doing, translate for the supported languages and clean up
Soon I'll post this new template

More impromvements!
http://migre.me/b66vC

Note that:
1-When user click in Youtube, it will be search for videos related to system in youtube (and will show in a separate window)
2-When user click in 'Bugs' all system related bugs in MAME Testers will appear!
3-When user click in ProjectMESS/ProgettoEMMA (in respective variants) the system page in respective project will open in a separate window.
4-When user click in 'Edit information in Project Website' user can edit information about the Machine info in ProgettoEMMA/ProjectMESS
5-Click to see the flyer: in mess only will apper if the user have the flyer stored locally (it will open a window with to better view of the flyer). In MAME, if it's not stored locally, it will show a different button, that will get the flyer image from ProgettoEMMA

Ps.: even QMC2 don't have full javascrip support yet, the code it's all there in template. It's already are working in MiniWebBrowser, then so long the scripts from open new window will supported in QMC2, all the features already implemented will work perfectly

Nice job !

Thanks!

New ideas are very appreciated!

Very nice work. I'm using right now your new_template and am really enjoying it and how it looks.

I look forward to a new post and thanks for your work

Thanks, B2K24!
I'm finishing a much better template with a lot of new features.
Look forward for new releases :)-

Some improvements coming
Please, give me your thoughts about the design of template whitout any images, sysinfo, emuinfo, or even a internet conection (I call the full nude template, hehe).
http://migre.me/b8nza

A small bonus: Software template design (support for most languages that QMC2 have support)

It's fine. Quite in the spirit of other place message when there is no data available (eg. mameinfo, messinfo, etc...)

Very good. That's the aim: to became the most integrated possible with the QMC2

Well, I had the idea to support more and more different images but unfortunatelly the template area is limited (and I'll avoid the maximum the use of the lateral bar - yes, I want that the final version are Y-relative too).
But the idea to a button to splash the flyer seemmed to be so good, that it's evolved and became a bar in bottom of the template. In MAME that can be used for more images (such GameOver, HowTo, etc.)
Also, that can be used for new things so long they can have support in QMC2, such .PDF manual files or Command.dat...
The website buttons also are in a brand new bar.
I think that is the best that I can do for all of these new features don't leave template so much polluited (and plus, it only will renderize extra external images if the button are clicked, avoiding using band for renderize a lot of images);)
http://migre.me/b8ANM

I like the flyer for MAME in the bottom of the template and I think it's absolutely perfect how you have it displayed in link
http://migre.me/b8nza

If people wanna read manuals and other things, it can be done in other tabs. the latest MESS template is beautiful and looks great. It will be a pleasure to use that once it's released.

Wonderful work

@B2K24: The templates evolved a lot since the one that you're using .
Now are just 1 general template that have different beheavior if is MESS or MAME, and don't 2 different templates.
It also detects if you have or don't the images, if don't, it's get from web
About other things, Flyer is better viewed in splash screen, since a small photo you can see all the details.
The best of use the buttons, is that I can program the buttons to appear just if auser alredy have the Flyer (or other stuff), or have in any website database (i'll program the template for look in various).
I'm sure that you you'll like the final result

Well, with all of new improvements, I think that will be good to test templates with various users to see the behavior before a launch!

Starting to working in manuals .pdf support
http://migre.me/bbdZO

Ps.: Tested with normal link (there's a lack of button support for now).

EDIT: Yes, a external plugin... For now it's possible to see the manuals only if the user install any pdf browser plugin, but so long PDF viewer come, it will can be viewed in any QMC2 compatible system

Oh, nice, using an installed PDF reader plugin...

I was so happy thinking that PDF viewer made with pdf.js was already working in QMC2 ...
Either way when the support is for pdf come, it will open the PDF likewise, don't will?

So the code should works

PDF.js is just the JS library I will be using for this, but none of the "surroundings" exist yet... and yes, both can work in parallel. However, the reader plugin isn't available everywhere...

Bye bye buttons!!!
http://migre.me/bbX36

Hello, colored links
http://migre.me/bbX5A

Nice ! Although... I've JUST committed SVN r4366 which makes JavaScript actions available to notes-templates as well ! The latest Win32 VC++ build doesn't include this, though...

It will surely useful in future

A LOT of improvements since last image post, well, so soon I'll detail all of them

http://migre.me/bg3sE

Ps.: Now the images are fading while loading and the bars on top and bottom are fix, don't matter the height available.
Thanks René for suggesting and implement these features

With all the latest changes to the support for notes-templates, I guess it's worth posting a new screen shot of the current example/default system-notes template :

@both QMC2 and Shideravan

would it be possible to have the images centred along y axis as well?

I think it would look cleaner


And can I have one of Shideravan's templates to try

Mine templates are centered along y axis (valign middle)!

@ASH: I'll send for you by PM!

@ASH: yeah, it's using valign="center" now on all images... also, it's now possible to choose the background mode (default/color/image-tiled/image-scaled), the background color or image, and the text foreground/background colors.

For this I've added two new slots to the notes-editor which you can call from tempate-JS: qmc2NotesEditorObject.getColor() / .getImage(). Both will open corresponding color- / file-selection dialogs and return the HTML color code (#XXXXXX) / path to the chosen file. See wiki for details.

My example template is now somewhat customizable with regard to its colors and background... here's an example of how it could look like:

Very nice QMC2

where is the 'Title Screen' folder setting? for MESS

So long all the new features are in templates, I'll sendo for to test, ASH!

@ASH: as you can see here, there are no title screens for MESS systems in QMC2 .

Ah OK

It looks untidy in mess (needs to be removed on the MESS template)

Well, I've made only one example template for system-notes which can be used for MAME, MESS and UME (in case of UME, it does actually make sense again ).

PS: But I will change the template to not show the title screen in case of MESS! There's a macro for that...

I made a lot of improvements in alternative template!
http://migre.me/bu36L

Along a lot of other improvements, (such y-relative, rom_status, rom_type new features and a new color bar - that modifies depending of rom status), the most significative is that various resources are now in separate templates (they are called with the 2 new buttons).
Now we have a configuration window (preliminary)
And a extra image window!!!

Ps.: @René: can you could leave pop-up windows Synchronized too?
In these new implementations, the function for verify the existence of image don't working properly in mini-web-browser :p

Sorry, I really have problems to understand you sometimes... what do you mean with "can you leave pop-up windows synchronized"? And again, the MiniWebBrowser is a different story . We're talking about the notes-editor(s) here, right?

@René: My template now call 2 another .html called EXTRAS.html and MENU.html. They are launched as pop-up windows by miniwebbrowser.
We're talking about notes-editor, but for links access and calling new windows it aways call MiniWebBrowser (as yourself programmed).


I already sent the new version of my template with these features, please, check your PM

Well, then you're probably doing something which is more or less unsupported ... JavaScript works nicely in the MiniWebBrowser as well, but there's no way to synchronize anything.

Understood...
I really think that is much better to launch another window totally customized with a lot of avaliable space for see the extra images.
I'll adapt my template to work in same screen then (rather to launch another window).

Well, the template idea has some restrictions and you have to live with that... it's not a GUI program in itself! But if you're capable of building Qt Designer UIs, dialogs could technically be created dynamically, i.e. for use from JavaScript. However, that's actually beyond the scope of notes-templates now .

Ohh, unfortunatelly I can't
If the window.location is changed, QMC2 note editor don't work with macros anymore and plus, I can't send these paramethers as ?var1=$MACRO1$&var2=$MACRO2$ as I was doing with windows either

I don't feel to check your template, however, mine does work fine with integrated settings, so you should orient your work on the example. I dunno what you're trying to do, but 'window.location' is probably not fully supported for local files...

Also, the macros are exchanged with real data at the very first step, before the HTML data is even loaded into the web-view... so there are no more macros as soon as the data is displayed!

My template have a lot of things to process and exibit in same screen at same time. There's no solution than use different screen.
Btw, not all have a fast internet connection, then if user could show extra images only if click in button, will give a lot of speedy!

Read back a few posts... if you really want to put your settings in a separate dialog you'd have to create a clean Designer UI file! I would have to add support for calling a UI dynamically though... but looking at the many settings my template has (just as many as yours) I don't see that problem, TBH.

I agree with QMC2 having a separate window is defeating the object of the template.

For configuration it don't will show a separate window, it will be done with Qt designer...
Only for EXTRA images it will need a separate window, cos if user don't want to see them, he can just ignore
It don't make much sense in theory, just will when it be tested

were at a month without any new posts in this thread. How's the progress going on these guys?

Are there currently any unofficial templates to try out?

Shideravan disappeared ?! I'm not sure about the progress of his templates...

I near the finish of the templates, with a lot of improvements....
I just will need help with translations and do some optimizations, but I'm very busy these days
Sorry for a while :p

A... smile...
Ohhh, you're happy with my absence
I thought that you liked my works :p

@Shideravan: yep, I like your work. And the smiley just came from the extreme difference between your former presence and later absence ! Nice to see you back again!

I'll send "beta shideravan" templates for ASH and B2K24
Please, give feedbaks

Ps.: soon after the all static texts was defined, the translation work will start again!

@qmc2: it's possible to count with translation team to help with these translations from template?
I'll do the best possible to use text only when it's extremally necessary (it will be very few work for them)...

If you send me a list with all the translatable strings I can forward it to the qmc2-devel mailing list to see if the translators would like to help... I can't guarantee this, though, I'm actually struggling myself to get some of them to update their translations more often .

I've not seen your latest templates so I don't know if you've already done so, but it helps if you use a dictionary like I do in my example system-notes template (see trMap[] and tr()). Just a tip...

Also, why don't you just publish what you have? Interested people could try it without explicitly asking for it...

If I create a doc in google docs I can see the modifications along time?
I'm thinking in create one text documment there and anyone in emuversal boards can help with these translations in their native language (as it was start to be done in beggining....


There's a lot of legacy code, but it's under development

Yeah, google-docs and the help from people around here is probably a good way to do it.

A lot of implementations and cleanings in the interface...
Voilá, the new Shideravan software template


Ps.: Already have software info support