Making a Recalbox theme

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textlist — the game list

The list where you pick your game: its colors, its highlighter, its font.

⚠️ This list is not placed wherever you want. textlist only exists in the Games view, under the reserved name gamelist. Elsewhere — or under another name — it is not built, and you cannot add a second one.

The properties (19)

<textlist name="gamelist">
  <pos>0.05 0.2</pos>
  <size>0.4 0.7</size>
  <primaryColor>C6CBD8</primaryColor>
  <secondaryColor>8A92A6</secondaryColor>
  <selectedColor>101820</selectedColor>
  <selectorColor>4FE3C1</selectorColor>
  <selectorHeight>0.055</selectorHeight>
  <fontSize>0.035</fontSize>
  <horizontalMargin>0.01</horizontalMargin>
</textlist>
PropertyRole
pos size originplacement
primaryColorthe color of the games
secondaryColorthe color of the folders
selectedColorthe text color of the chosen line
selectorColorthe color of the highlighter
selectorImagePatha highlighter image, instead of the color
selectorImageTilerepeat that image as tiles
selectorHeightthe highlighter's height
selectorOffsetYits vertical offset
fontPath fontSizethe font
alignmentline alignment
horizontalMarginthe left and right margin
forceUppercaseall capitals
lineSpacingline spacing — this is what spaces the lines
scrollSoundthe sound played while scrolling
zIndexdepth
Sonic the Hedgehog ▸ A folder Streets of Rage 2 Golden Axe Gunstar Heroes primaryColor the games secondaryColor the FOLDERS (not every other line!) selectorColor the highlighter selectedColor the TEXT of the chosen line selectorHeight the classic mistake: thinking secondaryColor alternates every other line

⚠️ No disabled: a game list does not switch off.

primaryColor and secondaryColor are the most common source of confusion: the second is not the alternate color of every other line, it is the color of the folders.