Difficulty Lists! Metrics! Fonts! Oh my!

[Ætheros]

Okay, so I'm working on a theme in which I want to implement Difficulty Lists. I looked at the DifficultyList Article on the Theming Wiki, copied the metrics (Which I will be changing once I can get this to work, since the article made it clear that the metrics for the [DIfficultyList] section was from Takuya's SuperNOVA theme) and created the necessary graphics. I continually ran Stepmania and added the metrics It told me I needed until it finally stopped crashing, and as of now the only errors I'm getting is that the following elements in the fonts folder are missing

Fonts/DifficultySummaryRow meter
Fonts/DIfficultyList description
Fonts/DifficultyList number

I'm fairly certain I know what needs to be made for 'number' and I will make the appropriate graphics, but I need to know what the others are. also, None of the graphics I set up previously (DifficultySummaryRow bar, DifficultySummaryRow 1x6, etc) are showing up except for DifficultyList cursor p1, which even scrolls up and down when I change difficulty, so I know that one works at least. But that leaves me confused as to why the other graphics don't show up, and I made fairly certain that they weren't placed off screen. What I want to know is will this be fixed when I create the necessary graphics in /Fonts/? Or is there something else I did wrong?

Here's the code I used, some parts I just left blank simply because I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to metrics, and don't know what those particular sections mean, other sections I sorta guessed what it wanted and put what I thought worked, so there's bound to be more errors than not. If someone could point out what I'm doing wrong I would appreciate it greatly,

alternately, if you could give me a simpler way to create difficulty lists from scratch, so I can just delete all of this and make things easier, please do so as well. I'm just trying to get the difficulty list to work T.T
Here's the code

[ScreenSelectMusic]
ShowDifficultyList=1

DifficultyListX=330
DifficultyListY=240
DifficultyListOffCommand=sleep,0.033;accelerate,0.363;addx,-400
DifficultyListOnCommand=glowmode,brighten;draworder,90;addx,-400;sleep,0.32;addx,400

[DifficultySummaryRow]
ShowFeet=1
ShowDifficulty=1
ShowMeter=1
FeetPerDifficulty=10
NumFeetInMeter=10
MinFeetInMeter=10
MaxFeetInMeter=10
GlowIfMeterGreaterThan=10
FeetIsDifficultyColor=1
DifficultySetNoneCommand=
Difficulty=1
DifficultyOnCommand=
DifficultyX=330
DifficultyY=240
DifficultySetBeginnerCommand=
DifficultySetEasyCommand=
DifficultySetMediumCommand=
DifficultySetHardCommand=
DifficultySetChallengeCommand=
FeetX=330
FeetY=240
FeetOnCommand=
meter=1
MeterX=330
MeterY=240
MeterOnCommand=
MeterSetNoneCommand=
MeterSetBeginnerCommand=
MeterSetEasyCommand=
MeterSetMediumCommand=
MeterSetHardCommand=
MeterSetChallengeCommand=

[DifficultySummaryRow] is where I'm expecting all of the problems to be, since that was the section I had to write up myself to stop getting those damned errors, and stop SM from crashing. The rest is all copy/pasted from the wiki article.

The following Code is from Takuya's SuperNOVA theme, which I copy/pasted from the theming wiki, someone tell me if this needs to be changed before I can release this theme, or if it's okay to use his metrics (if Takuya could confirm this himself that'd be nice)

DifficultyList]
CapitalizeDifficultyNames=0
CursorP1OnCommand=y,-1;x,114;z,-6;draworder,5;addy,200;decelerate,0.3;addy,-200
CursorP1OffCommand=sleep,0.198;accelerate,0.33;addx,-400
CursorP1ChangeCommand=
CursorP1TweenOnCommand=addy,200;sleep,0.3;decelerate,0.2;addy,-200
CursorP1TweenOffCommand=
CursorP1HideCommand=hidden,0
CursorP1ShowCommand=hidden,0
CursorP2OnCommand=y,-1;x,142;z,+6;draworder,4;addy,200;decelerate,0.3;addy,-200
CursorP2OffCommand=sleep,0.198;accelerate,0.33;addx,-400
CursorP2ChangeCommand=
CursorP2TweenOnCommand=addy,200;sleep,0.3;decelerate,0.2;addy,-200
CursorP2TweenOffCommand=
CursorP2HideCommand=hidden,0
CursorP2ShowCommand=hidden,0
RowOnCommand=draworder,10;addx,54
RowOffCommand=
MoveCommand=
DescriptionOnCommand=x,9999
DescriptionOffCommand=
DescriptionMaxWidth=1
ItemsSpacingY=20
ItemsSpacingX=-2
NumberOnCommand=x,9999
NumberOffCommand=
NumShownItems=4

So there's the code I'm using, and my problem is essentially, I need to get difficulty list to work. Keep in mind I'm a metrics newb, so I could very easily be missing something that is painfully obvious to those of you who know what they're doing. any small fixes, or complete reworking help is very much appreciated.

oh yeah, SM 3.9 BTW.

thanks in advance.

[AJ 187]

Originally Posted by Ætheros

oh yeah, SM 3.9 BTW.

Of course. Anyone attempting to do DifficultyList is either brave or knows SM4 a hell of a lot more than we all do.

For the record:
DifficultyList description is a regular font
DifficultySummaryRow meter is likely to be a number font but can also use a regular font.

I guess I'll add what types of fonts are needed to the article. Oddly enough, I never had to use DifficultySummaryRow meter in SOMS (the only time I've ever used a DifficultyList).

I'd have to see what you have as a complete theme in order to be able to help further.

[dieKatze88]

Yeah I cant do much without your theme. If I did I could help you, I used the difficulty list in Westfest

[Ætheros]

Well I'll upload what I have so far then. Just let me get to a computer with a reliable internet connection first.

EDIT: Okay so here's what I have so far. The fonts I needed were just copy/pasted and appear renamed (though they're sill giving me errors) and the majority of the difficulty list related graphics are placeholder/prelminary graphics.
Stepmania_Infinity.rar - FileFront.com

[dieKatze88]

Originally Posted by Ætheros

Well I'll upload what I have so far then. Just let me get to a computer with a reliable internet connection first.

EDIT: Okay so here's what I have so far. The fonts I needed were just copy/pasted and appear renamed (though they're sill giving me errors) and the majority of the difficulty list related graphics are placeholder/prelminary graphics.
Stepmania_Infinity.rar - FileFront.com

The 2 fonts youre missing are regular letter fonts, and are in charge of displaying things like the title of the difficulty and edit names.

The third font is a number, that is in charge of displaying the number of feet

Hope this helps!

also, looks good so far.

[AJ 187]

Weird... after I add in the fonts, the elements still don't show up.

I think the problem lies in setting the X and Y elements for things that don't need to be set that big.

For example, you had DifficultyX and DifficultyY in [DifficultySummaryRow] as 330 and 240, which would place it outside of the bounds of the screen. Those items are relative to the DifficultyList's position itself.

Also, when I hit back, it sure as hell takes a long time to get back to the previous screen...

[Ætheros]

Originally Posted by AJ 187

Those items are relative to the DifficultyList's position itself.

ah! okay. see I didn't know that. thanks.

you too die katze.