Update 01/2024:
ATVO includes a built-in custom theme. To explore this, launch ATVO and select the "ATVO Theme 2023" from the Quick Start page.
You will be able to experiment with various settings of the theme and view a preview overlay, which includes a watermark. Should the theme meet your needs, you have the option to purchase a license directly within ATVO. For further details, please visit https://shop.appgineering.com.

Update: a first preview of this theme has now been released! You can download it here:
Download theme

Please read the instructions file first! Before opening the theme you may need to install the Roboto font as a system font. It is included in the download.

Make sure you're on the latest stable or beta channel!

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Due to popular request, we have finally spend some time designing our own ATVO Theme which will soon be included with ATVO. Here is a preview of the theme in action, showing some of the available features. Please keep in mind this is still under development and some things are still missing or incomplete.



The theme is made with the Theme Editor and you will be able to view and edit it as you wish. This is a good opportunity to learn how to use some of the more advanced features!

Here is a list of things that are included so far, and features which are used:

• Advanced tickers: vertical and horizontal, with variable data shown (switching between gaps, intervals, pitstops, etc) and variable class filters (choose which class to show). Including mix of static and variable vertical ticker.
• Advanced animations: combinations of sliding, scaling and fading create clean and professional looking animations. Including things like an expanding / collapsing horizontal ticker that shows more or less information on demand.
• Grid & results "scrolling paging tickers": a custom effect using a small bit of scripting and animations to slide a long ticker vertically at certain intervals to mimic a "next page" scrolling action. The next page animation effect is started manually by a button.
• Full use of new features such as the condition flags, storyboards, clipping and more.

Thank you, it will be useful to improve our current theme :)

Thank you!

We <3 you all for this!

_jeremy

Nice, looks great ! 🙂

Thanks, I need to see how you use animation, it actually difficulties with animation ;)

Just as question Nick,

Will it be possible to copy/paste those animations, or edit the theme, that we could use them in our personal themes?

btw, is it hard to create the animations ? Which software are you using to create them? :)

Everything is made in the Theme Editor including animations. You can edit them as you wish and see how they work. Copy/pasting is a bit more tricky because how the animations are defined depends directly on which widgets you are animating. For example, to do the "expand from 0 to total width" animation, I do the following:

• Create new animation with "ScaleX" element.
• Go into ScaleX properties and change the CenterX property to the left-most coordinate of the widget. Meaning: if the widget is 400 pixels wide, then the CenterX is set to -200. This moves the center of the animation to the left, which makes the scale animation expand to the right, rather than expand from the center in both directions. If your widget has a different size, this value has to be adjusted.

Thanks Nick for the fast reply,

Ok, i got that and that's no problem.
Just, how do i bind the animation to a widget, ?

- Do I have to call the widget in the animations Control Tab, or
- Do i have to call as example the animation by a button and set the animation as Target, and the widget as value?

When I'm testing the animation with default settings in theme editor, no animations happens. ScaleX, with CenterX at 0, it should scale from the middle to the left and right.

Christian Schmitz2 wrote:
- Do i have to call as example the animation by a button and set the animation as Target, and the widget as value?

Yes. Use the Animations - Play action. The Target is which animation to play, and the Value is which Widget you want it to animate.

Christian Schmitz2 wrote:When I'm testing the animation with default settings in theme editor, no animations happens. ScaleX, with CenterX at 0, it should scale from the middle to the left and right.

The animations don't play in the editor, unless you are in the Animation Editor which allows you to select a widget to preview the animation.

Hmm, I've tried in the Animation Designer, an it's not animating.
I do well believe that the problem of the animation ist 70cm away from the computer screen ;)

Maybe you can have a look at those 2 pictures, thats how i set the animation up

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I've mapped it to a button too, exported it, and atvo is neither making an action

You also have to click the two keyframes and change what value they should be animation to/from. You can also add more keyframes in between if desired. By default the scaling animations have their keyframe values set to 1 (meaning 100% of the original scale) so it doesn't do anything. If you change one of them to 0 (or something else) you should see it animate.

Ok, works like a charm!
Thanks Nick :)

On my computer I do a lot of test, I understand the logical, and it is ok when I test on Animation module but when I use it on theme, opacity or movement do nothing and the widget comes in one step flash at is final position. (I try to make quick, slow animation)

This is looks great. Looking forward to checking it out.

What standard font and size did you use for this theme? Also how do you get text to capitalize for the names?

The font is Roboto, size between 16 - 20 for most things I think.

You can capitalize text by setting Character Casing to Uppercase on any label (under Display category).

Thanks Nick! I have noticed that when I set the default font to one I have uploaded to the theme it keeps resetting back to Arial on reopening the them. I have to define the font for each of the Labels for it to stay attached. Am I missing something I need to do?

Hmm, that is strange. I have found that in some cases it works better to just install the font you want instead of adding it in the theme, especially if the font has multiple variants. I'll see if I can spot the bug for the fonts and if not maybe work on another method to add the fonts.

So to confirm the general font list is taken from the computer designing then theme. If the exported theme is then used on another computer and the font not attached then it will not show up correctly? Unless the font is installed on the computer using ATVO. Thanks.

Looks epic! Fantastic job Nick and team ATVO!

HI

Do you have some news about the ATVO theme ?

It's almost ready for a first release, just some final details to fix up. Expecting this weekend!

Thanks Nick for the info

Excited for this release! The theme looks great!

Nick Thissen wrote:
It's almost ready for a first release, just some final details to fix up. Expecting this weekend!

Is there an updated timeline on when we could see this released?

Sorry, I found some further bugs in the flag event trigger system which I would like to fix as this theme also makes use of them. After that it is pretty much ready for a first release.