The menu view — the menus

What a theme can, and cannot, change about the menus.

Recalbox builds its menus itself: their content, their order and their labels are not yours.

What the theme provides are styles — and a single measurement.

<view name="menu">
  <menuBackground>
    <color>101820F0</color>
    <path>${root}/data/arts/cadre.png</path>
  </menuBackground>

  <menuText>
    <fontPath>${root}/data/fonts/Exo2.otf</fontPath>
    <fontSize>0.038</fontSize>
    <color>C6CBD8</color>
    <selectedColor>101820</selectedColor>
    <selectorColor>4FE3C1</selectorColor>
    <separatorColor>FFFFFF20</separatorColor>
  </menuText>

  <menuSize><height>0.85</height></menuSize>
</view>

The nine available components are described in Menu styling.

What you cannot do

• add, remove or rename a menu line;
• change the order of the sections;
• place a free component in a menu: extras are not read in this view.

What to keep in mind

The menus display on top of the current view. The veil (fadePath of menuBackground) darkens what is behind: without it, a menu with a transparent background becomes unreadable on a light theme.