DisplayEx Tool v1.0.0.0

I'm happy to release my first project that is 100% exclusive to supporters, and not a mod! This had a little bit of a bumpy road, but it was

I'm happy to release my first project that is 100% exclusive to supporters, and not a mod!

This had a little bit of a bumpy road, but it was a app I had fun working on for a time. I planned to work on it more, and... hopefully I will more in the future. But at this point it has sat collecting dust for a couple months and been forgotten about as I waited for testers to actually test it... even after adding 1 new tester. So I feel I should just release it already. I hate using a larger part of the community for testing, and was trying to avoid that with this project... But what other option do I have?

DisplayEx Tool is a Windows app designed for creating Backgrounds for use with the DisplayEx mods for the various NSO apps. Since the start of those mods, you have had to manually create your own, or be referred to sites with limited scope and selection. With this tool, you can easily make quality looking backgrounds that are tailor fit for each app, resolution and settings.

In the future this will support helping make themes for the DisplayEx+ version of the mod, but I still need to figure out a way to bring that to the greater supporter community more first. So its less important right now.

Features:

• Create Background images for use with DisplayEx for the NSO apps, SNES Classic, and ZebraEngine.

• Multiple Image Fit types including Tiling, Stretch, and Sides. With X, Y or both image flip options.

• Supports both handheld and docked NSO resolutions.

• Select a single main background image, or 2 for the left and right sides of the background, independently.

• Adjust the scale and positioning of the main background images.

• Add a drop shadow, with a custom color, size, and offset.

• Add frames of up to 3 different types. A simple Custom Color Frame. A Preset Image Frame. Or a combination Custom Color + Preset Image Frame.

• While the stock list of Preset Image Frames is limited, users and the community can expand it. (more on the details of formatting a images for use with the tool to come later).

• Control the roundness of the corners with Custom Color Frames.

• Control the size of the various frame types.

• Lists previews of image frames, and realtime previews of the background the tool would output.

• Fun attractive, but easy to use UI. A few selections, and click save.

Preset Frame Creation:

Frame template should be placed in the "resources" folder. They use a 9-Slice spite layout similar to whats seen used in UI design for game engines. Basically, 4 corners, left, right, top, and bottom sides with the center being ignored. Frame sprite can use transparencies.

The name and image type needs to be specific for the tool to detect and use the image.

• <Name>-<Type>-<Left X>_<>_<Top Y>_<Bottom Y>_<Fit>.png

Name: The name that should be displayed in the UI list.

Type: "Blend" for the "Custom Color + Preset Image Frame" type frames or Solid for "Preset Image Frame" type frames.

Left X: The width in pixels of the left column in the 9-Slice sprite.

Right X: The width in pixels of the right column in the 9-Slice sprite.

Top Y:  The height in pixels of the top row in the 9-Slice sprite.

Bottom Y:  The height in pixels of the bottom row in the 9-Slice sprite.

Fit: Use "s" for Stretch to Fit, and "t" for Tiling. This applies to the non-corner parts of the sprite.

Example: Pipe-Blend-9_9_9_9_s.png

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