Custom Windows

Opening Custom Windows

To open a custom window using ThemeOptions you must first create a Style for a ContentControl with the window's template defined:

<Style x:Key="MyWindowStyle" TargetType="ContentControl">
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="ContentControl">
                <Grid>
                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                        <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
                        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <Border
                        Grid.Column="1"
                        Width="200"
                        Height="200"
                        Margin="0"
                        Padding="16"
                        HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                        VerticalAlignment="Center"
                        BorderThickness="1"
                        CornerRadius="16">
                        <TextBlock Foreground="White" Text="Hello World!" />
                    </Border>
                </Grid>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

Then to open this template as a window you can bind to the Command attribute of a ButtonEx control using indexable syntax to specify the style you created:

<ButtonEx Command="{PluginSettings Plugin=ThemeOptions, Path=OpenWindow[MyWindowStyle]}">
    <TextBlock Text="Open Window" />
</ButtonEx>

Closing Windows

To close any custom window, press Esc on the keyboard or the B (or platform-equivalent) button on a controller. Movement and item selection within a window is the same.

Opening another window from within a window

When a new window is opened, the old window is automatically closed so pressing Esc/B will always close the current window entirely.

Window Positioning

The window's XAML looks like this: A 16:9 blank screen where the content is positioned inside a single Grid. Using alignment and sizing attributes, you can position and size your window to anchor to a particular side of the screen (or center) as well as size it.

<Viewbox Stretch="Uniform" 
            xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
            xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
            xmlns:pbeh="clr-namespace:Playnite.Behaviors;assembly=Playnite">
    <Grid Width="1920" Height="1080">
        <ContentControl x:Name="CustomWindow"
                        Focusable="False"
                        Style=""{DynamicResource <STYLE_INJECTED_HERE>}" />
    </Grid>
</Viewbox>