Homebrew [Release] FBI Theme Previewer

[miraclaime]

The .exe wont run for me, im using 32bit windows

 

[jurassicplayer]

The .exe wont run for me, im using 32bit windows

Rebuilt as a 32bit application, so it should work now (in theory).

 

[miraclaime]

Rebuilt as a 32bit application, so it should work now (in theory).

Thanks will try it if i have free time

 

[miraclaime]

It keep giving these errors

I already have the api-ms...dll in my system and i already have a copy of python installed and put fbi_theme.py inside python folder but it still giving me those error, what should i do ?

 

[jurassicplayer]

what should i do ?

I tried rebuilding the exe with Python 3.4 now (as suggested here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/2170) so...maybe it works now? Should only require the exe file and a theme folder.

 

[miraclaime]

I tried rebuilding the exe with Python 3.4 now (as suggested here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/2170) so...maybe it works now? Should only require the exe file and a theme folder.

Thanks, it work now

 

[jurassicplayer]

I updated the previewer. Hopefully will resolve the qualm I had with the memory leak (though I haven't tested it yet), but it is noticeably better than before. I removed the auto-saving textcolor.cfg because soon I'm going to add a save button.

• Changed app icon to a custom-made one
• Added preview screen for TWL Photo (Options screen "enabled/disabled" text colors)
• Added preview screen for Titles ("nand, sd, gamecard, dstitle" text colors)
• Redirected Dump NAND to the Update screen (easier to click)
• Added open theme button
• Added configurable meta icon (right click icon to change, or set in config file)
• Added configurable animation duration (seconds)
• Added overwrite option (never, preview, textcolor, always) to not prompt for overwrite confirmation.

Opening a different theme changes the watched directory to that theme (so you can change themes, instantly just start modifying files in that theme, and see the changes happen)

 

[jurassicplayer]

Updated the previewer. Added the save button and another preview screen...currently, all of the images required for a theme are preview-able, and all text colors except for "installed" and "notinstalled".

After that preview is implemented (going to be the TitleDB screen), I don't really have any future plans aside from dropping the translation support thing since there isn't really anything to translate and re-implementing my derpy fake info generators. The available screens left in the preview that could be used for something are TWL NAND, TWL Sound, Pending Titles, Ext Save Data, and System Save Data. These screens wouldn't provide any new things to preview and are pretty much changes in the words which is why I don't really see a point in making them look like they do in FBI. I'm open to any ideas that anyone might have for them or I could just leave them non-functional.

I'm also pretty much out of ideas of what other things I could add to make FBI theming any more convenient, so some new ideas there are also welcome as long as they aren't bat-shit crazy out of scope like scraping and caching 3ds title infos. I was considering adding two more config lines for the meta info text inside and outside of the box to give people the option of having a slightly more convincing screenshot, but whether I actually add that or not is up in the air since it doesn't really provide much of anything.

- Added Tickets screen preview
- Added save button (works like the screenshot button)
- Grouped icons based on function (toggle screens vs external functions)
- Fixed a small oversight bug with the FBI preview toggle
- Added save icon to resources

 

[pietempgba]

this selection overlay isn't displaying right

Spoiler: preview

Spoiler: screenshot

Spoiler: selection overlay

 

[jurassicplayer]

Spoiler: selection overlay

View attachment 75046

Greyscale alpha? Why not just save it as normal RGB alpha. It's smaller filesize-wise and doesn't do weird shit.

Maybe I'll look into seeing if I can detect derpy things like that and convert to RGB before using the image so that kind of thing doesn't happen...but I'm probably not going to look that hard because I don't greyscale format anything.

- Edit -
- Added the TitleDB preview screen
- Simple naive bugfix (convert selection_overlay to RGBA from input format before loading).
- Removed unneeded imports

 

[pietempgba]

It would be nice to have the update button actually check for updates and install updates when you press it and for the scroll bar to actually function like it does on the real fbi

 

[miraclaime]

I made this one earlier aand.. it turn out a bit weird ..

 

[Deleted User]

Woah this is pretty good

 

[jurassicplayer]

I made this one earlier and.. it turn out a bit weird ..

Weird as in "inaccurate compared to the 3ds"? or weird as in, just how the theme turned out?

 

[miraclaime]

Weird as in the theme turn out

 

[jurassicplayer]

Alright, so there is a decision that probably needs to be made...preferably not just one where I pick myself.

For the past...however long since my last update, I've been trying to figure out a way to put most of the work stuff into Pillow rather than the canvas for less than obvious reasons (which are stated in a github issue I made). Currently there is no build of this version on github since it's not equal feature-wise to the current one (I'll upload the exe if anyone wants to get a feel).

There are some nifty things (small things, almost irrelevant even) that were implemented, but they have a cost. For starters, it takes up a little bit more memory (which isn't really bad), uses a lot more CPU while re-making the canvas (not really great), and has a slight lag while swapping screens (not really too bad, and for the most part irrelevant for normal use). As for what those allowed, there is the ttf which I can now use (and so I hunted down the system font) though it is not pixel perfect since the font renderer isn't the same. There is also alpha transparency support for textcolor (but no way to change the value of that live). Keep that in mind while looking at the two previews side-by-side.

Personally, the current version is good enough for me. I can get a decent gist of what a theme is going to look like, it runs well and doesn't ride up the CPU while I'm just derping through screens as fast as possible. With that said, having a previewable alpha textcolor is pretty nice as well. In the meantime, I'm going to be slowly thinking about the poor code I've written to accomplish the Pillow version and see if there are things I can do that would optimize the CPU/memory usage, so that maybe this decision won't even be hard later.

 

[jurassicplayer]

So I've updated the previewer again after a while of trying to get things to work out right. The new release vs the old release still has the same sort of things to note so even though this is the new release, that doesn't exactly make it entirely superior. The new version has increased memory usage, though CPU usage is...alright for most things. Some things are now a little "laggy" since I'm loading and regenerating various images at certain times in order to get the fancy text alpha to work.

Pretty much, if you used V1.0.0, this new version is exactly the same, just more clunky, missing animated previews atm (wifi, battery, progress bar), and now has custom font support along with text alpha channel support.

It would be nice to have the update button actually check for updates and install updates when you press it and for the scroll bar to actually function like it does on the real fbi

There aren't very many positives to adding either of those. At best maybe the check for updates, but it's not like I'm going update the program super often after adding the main features required for previewing. Also, I am one that has a tendency to try and re-write huge chunks to test if it would be better, which means I end up with different versions that are sort of a preferences thing (more accurate, less performant vs less accurate, more performant). As for the scrollbar, there is nothing else to scroll that would help any preview.

 

[pietempgba]

lol It's been two months

 

[jurassicplayer]

I went and tried rewriting it again. This time I went with Kivy instead of using tkinter which sort of works and sort of doesn't. I had to make a custom color picker because the normal one in Kivy is terrible. Previewing itself is fine for the most part (albeit not completely finished), the buttons do nothing again until I rewrite those too. Also, pyinstaller can't seem to make a single executable of it at the moment...possibly because the files are split up, or maybe something else. Eventually I'll probably merge all the files together and hopefully it will work.

It's not like I really have a timeline or a deadline since nobody really uses it...and the current releases do work as previewers just fine, so it isn't like there isn't anything to use in the meantime.

 

[miraclaime]

I went and tried rewriting it again. This time I went with Kivy instead of using tkinter which sort of works and sort of doesn't. I had to make a custom color picker because the normal one in Kivy is terrible. Previewing itself is fine for the most part (albeit not completely finished), the buttons do nothing again until I rewrite those too. Also, pyinstaller can't seem to make a single executable of it at the moment...possibly because the files are split up, or maybe something else. Eventually I'll probably merge all the files together and hopefully it will work.

It's not like I really have a timeline or a deadline since nobody really uses it...and the current releases do work as previewers just fine, so it isn't like there isn't anything to use in the meantime.

The new update doesnt work for me, i cant run the app