AM+ Layout Designer Updates

Button order (left → right in toolbar): 🎨 Theme · 📋 Romlist · 📂 Load .nut · 💾 Save .nut · 🗑 Clear All · ❓ Help · 🔄 Updates

Tooltips — hover any topbar button and a small bordered popup appears below it:

ButtonTooltip💾 Save .nutSave the current layout.nut code to disk🔄 UpdatesVisit the website for news and updates📂 Load .nutLoad an existing layout.nut file🗑 Clear AllRemove all elements and reset the layout📋 RomlistOpen the Romlist Editor in its own window❓ HelpOpen the built-in help & reference🎨 ThemeChoose a colour theme

The _attach_tooltip helper is reusable — you can call self._attach_tooltip(any_widget, "text") anywhere else in the app to add tooltips to other widgets too. Tooltips dismiss on mouse leave or when you click the button.

Version 6.1

Whats New:

Elements Look Better

Version 6.2

Whats New:

Standard menu bar (top-left, always visible):

MenuItemsFileNew Ctrl+N · Load Ctrl+O · Save Ctrl+S · Layout Info · Preview · ExitEditDuplicate Ctrl+D · Delete · Bring Forward/Back · Clear AllViewChoose Theme · Load/Clear BG ImageToolsRomlist Editor · CFG Generator · Reference · AM+ Docs · Snippet ManagerHelpHelp & Reference · Check for Updates/Website · About

Topbar — now just 5 core buttons a novice needs every session: 📂 Load .nut · 💾 Save .nut · 🗑 Clear · ▶ Preview · 🎨 Theme

Left panel — trimmed to 3 tabs: Elements · Modules · Snippets

Right panel — trimmed to 2 tabs: Properties · layout.nut

Everything advanced (Romlist, CFG Gen, Reference, Docs) is in Tools and opens in its own full popup window — out of the way until needed.

Version 6.3

Whats New:

Here's a summary of everything cleaned up:

Dead code removed:

• _toggle_appearance() — orphaned, never called
• _build_romlist_tab_stub() — Romlist is now a Tools menu popup only
• ORIENT_OPTIONS constant — defined but never referenced anywhere

New shared helpers (reduce repetition):

• _cfont(size, bold=False) — replaces all ctk.CTkFont(family="Courier", size=N, ...) calls. Used 67 times in the file, now a single 3-line function
• _ENTRY_KW dict — replaces repeating fg_color=COLORS["panel2"], text_color=..., border_color=... on every CTkEntry
• _COMBO_KW dict — same for CTkComboBox
• _btn() — reduced from 10 lines to 5

File structure — clear section headers:

# ─── ATTRACT-MODE PLUS LAYOUT DESIGNER

# ─── CONFIGURATION & CONSTANTS

# ─── THEME & COLOUR SYSTEM # ─── DATA MODEL (LayoutElement)

# ─── CANVAS (LayoutCanvas)

# ─── PROPERTIES PANEL (PropertiesPanel)

# ─── MAIN APPLICATION (AttractLayoutBuilder)

# ── Styling

# ── Widget helpers

# ── UI Construction

# ── Left panel tabs

# ── Right panel tabs

# ── Element operations

# ── Canvas / resolution helpers

# ── Background image

# ── Code generation

# ── Code editor

# ── File I/O

# ── Snippets

# ── CFG Generator

# ── Romlist Editor

# ── Reference tab

# ── AM+ Docs tab

# ── Preview / Launch

# ── Dialogs

# ── Updates & tools

# ── Theme picker

# ── Help

# ─── ENTRY POINT

Spacing: Trailing whitespace stripped from every line, excess blank lines compressed.

Version 6.4

Whats New:

Three ways to add a preview image to any element:

1. Drag and drop — select the element first, then drag a PNG/JPG/MP4 from Explorer onto the canvas. The file gets assigned to that element's preview
2. Browse button — in Properties > CANVAS PREVIEW section, click Browse to pick any image or video file
3. Type the path — paste directly into the Preview File entry

Works on all visual types:
snap · video · boxart · marquee · wheel · flyer · fanart · artwork · surface · image

Video support (MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV etc.) — extracts the first frame using opencv-python

Key behaviour:

• Preview images are display only — never written to layout.nut
• The existing box outline, icon, name label, selection handles, resize — all still work exactly as before when no preview is set, and the border/handles draw on top of the preview image when selected
• ✕ Clear Preview button removes the preview and restores the placeholder box
• Cached per element — resizing stays fast

Updated 05-28-2026

Remember To Overwrite The Exe <-- False positive

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