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Here's the first public release of GMenuNext.

The motivation behind this project is to make GMenu2X take a Next step, bringing it from the past, which core was idealized more than 10 yeas ago, to present, with a more modern look and function.

This first release have a lot of "behind the scenes" small adjustments in code, but here are some highlights:

- New main menu layout, with a section bar on the left and items in list, inspired in concept designed by @m1024 in the first post of this thread;
- Retouched every screen to make all system cohesive;
- Alternative selector browser, allowing you to load previews of your games;
- Navigate page up/down with directional left/right;
- New variable for skin designers;
- New set of "Next" skins by @m1024.


How to install:

You can use the executable as standalone replacement or all the package as an update of current GMenu2X.
But is *STRONGLY* recommended that you have a backup of your files and current GMenu2X setup. Also, have enough knowledge to recover the backup if something goes wrong or if you simply prefer the older GMenu2X. 


In short, you have to:
- Make a copy of your current GMenu2X folder (e.g., copy to "gmenu2x-old")
- Extract this zip over current GMenu2X folder, making sure to replace all files with the newer ones.


In this version there's no section links nor gmenu2x.conf file, so your current configs will not be overwritten.

Please, have in mind this is still a testing version. Use it at your own risk.
If you find any issue, please report with all details as possible and we will try to solve.


With many thanks to @m1024  and @jutley  for all the patience while testing this version and @Steward_Fu  for all the hard work done in porting old GMenu2X to RS-97.


Hope you enjoy.

Release:
https://github.com/pingflood/GMenuNext/raw/master/dist/retrogame/GMenuNext.zip

Source:
https://github.com/pingflood/GMenuNext/

About preview images:

My current practice is to set the preview paths to ./previews by editing the link files on my computer or with Glutexto. Preview images can now live in a sub folder of each rom folder and you can have multiple rom and preview folders for each emulator/link.

To create the images I use Universal XML Scraper with a custom profile (128x128, png, screenshot). The profile can be downloaded from this message. Please change it from jpg to png to get sharper images. The rename script is not required anymore, btw.

thanks, got it
but the config for scrapper is download only jpg images, have a solution?

I did it and I can't see previews..I try a lot of times and don't work for me  Help me, please. Thanks.

Quote from: pingflood on April 20, 2018, 08:44:48 pm

Here's the first public release of GMenuNext.

The motivation behind this project is to make GMenu2X take a Next step, bringing it from the past, which core was idealized more than 10 yeas ago, to present, with a more modern look and function.

This first release have a lot of "behind the scenes" small adjustments in code, but here are some highlights:

- New main menu layout, with a section bar on the left and items in list, inspired in concept designed by @m1024 in the first post of this thread;
- Retouched every screen to make all system cohesive;
- Alternative selector browser, allowing you to load previews of your games;
- Navigate page up/down with directional left/right;
- New variable for skin designers;
- New set of "Next" skins by @m1024.


How to install:

You can use the executable as standalone replacement or all the package as an update of current GMenu2X.
But is *STRONGLY* recommended that you have a backup of your files and current GMenu2X setup. Also, have enough knowledge to recover the backup if something goes wrong or if you simply prefer the older GMenu2X. 


In short, you have to:
- Make a copy of your current GMenu2X folder (e.g., copy to "gmenu2x-old")
- Extract this zip over current GMenu2X folder, making sure to replace all files with the newer ones.


In this version there's no section links nor gmenu2x.conf file, so your current configs will not be overwritten.

Please, have in mind this is still a testing version. Use it at your own risk.
If you find any issue, please report with all details as possible and we will try to solve.


With many thanks to @m1024  and @jutley  for all the patience while testing this version and @Steward_Fu  for all the hard work done in porting old GMenu2X to RS-97.


Hope you enjoy.

**2018-04-24**
* Fixed the Log Viewer;
* Added default values for brightness and global volume;
* New poweroff menu;
* New brightness slider control;
* New battery logger screen;
* New linear fit for battery level measurements (waiting for logs to improve);
* Rearranged how all input buttons are handled in main menu;
* Added option to customize the inactive timeout to suspend. Values can be set set between 10 to 300 seconds;
* Improved how to trigger power off and suspend via power button:
     * If hold the power button for ~1s, it will suspend the device;
     * If hold the power button for ~2.5s, power off menu will pop up;
* When waking up from suspended state, a press in power menu should wake up the device with at least 10% of brightness level;
* Rearranged in "core" of the main menu where it redraws the screen. Prevent redraw screen while in "suspend" mode.
* Absolute path resolving in filelister; Prevents (?) buffer overflow after browsing a lot of files and allow resolving relative paths.

**2018-04-24**
* Fixed incorrect brightness when returning from suspend mode;
* Dynamic fill the icon tray;
* Added option to auto hide a MessageBox;
* Use MessageBox to draw some messages;
* Save screenshot with combo [X] + [BUTTON_R];
* Mute/unmute with combo [X] + [TRIGGER_L];
* Fix in DekUI messagebox color;
* Screenshot function is global
* Brightness control is global