Xarxas Wrote:Hi. How can i add link to a application to home screen?

• First, the display of a loading message feedback after starting a stand alone launcher or an item.
  

• Second, this update add the possibility to use XBMC built in functions as launchers (stand alone or files launcher). Actually it is not possible to directly use these built in functions from Advanced Launcher. You will need to edit manually the launcher.xml file to use them. Here is some example how to use the XBMC built in functions into Advanced Launcher.
  

• add XBMC built in functions support for launchers (manual settings).
  
• add loading message feedback after starting an item.
  
• cleaning message display delay.
  

Dina Wrote:Anyone got Winkawaks for Neo Geo roms working yet? Somehow it doesn't want to load the roms and the Autoit script isn't helping much.

Angelscry Wrote:I was able to make it works on my system, but I have already reported all the information on the corresponding WIKI page : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Winkawaks#Windows

Dina Wrote:Yeah I read that, and I've followed everything, but when I execute the emulator in XBMC (it points to the compiled.exe launcher which launches the emulator in turn), nothing shows up. Well there's a small icon in the windows toolbar on the bottom right that says 'paused' or something like that.

Quote:HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")
$path = "C:\Program Files (x86)\winkawaks\"
$app = "winkawaks.exe"

Angelscry Wrote:Seems that the script start correctly but do not launch winawks correctly. Do you check if the path value into the AutoIt script is corresponding to the path where is installed winawaks on your computer?

Dina Wrote:Winkawaks is launching, I see the screen pop up. But after that the rom isn't loading. The AutoIt script says paused when I hover over the icon, but I'm guessing there's an error with the emulator loading the roms. Which is weird, cause I can drag and drop the roms fine. Takes a bit of loading, as is normal with Neo Geo roms, but they work.

Angelscry Wrote:Could be related to a path (relative vs. absolute) problem. Do you have put the AutoIt script into the same directory than the Winkawaks exec file? Does the WinKawaks.ini file have the right path for the neogo roms directory? Also do you have put the neogeo BIOS file into the same directory than the neogeo roms?

Dina Wrote:Yes to all of that. Would you mind e-mailing me your winkawaks.ini and the -launcher.au3 file? That way I can cross-check for things I might have missed. Email is danielhoogland at gmail dot com. Thanks in advance.

Angelscry Wrote:Version 1.5.0 : This new version of Advanced Launcher bring 2 principal features :

• First, the display of a loading message feedback after starting a stand alone launcher or an item.
  

• Second, this update add the possibility to use XBMC built in functions as launchers (stand alone or files launcher). Actually it is not possible to directly use these built in functions from Advanced Launcher. You will need to edit manually the launcher.xml file to use them. Here is some example how to use the XBMC built in functions into Advanced Launcher.
  

Here is how must look like the content of the launchers.xml file to use XBMC built in functions :

Code:

<launcher>
    <id>4153abdccf96c9034d754c16509a213e</id>
    <name>Cowboy Bebop</name>
    <application>xbmc</application>
    <args>ActivateWindow(10025,"videodb://2/2/1/")</args>
    ...

The <application></application> tag must be manually set as "xbmc" and the <args></args> will contain the XBMC built in functions. In the above example (stand alone launcher), the launcher will display the Cowboy Bebop XBMC TV Show folder define by the ActivateWindow() function.

Code:

<launcher>
    <id>d7479b73d52d896526d3b6e503c639d3</id>
    <name>Cow Boy Bebop 2</name>
    <application>xbmc</application>
    <args>PlayMedia(%rom%)</args>
    <rompath>/media/DDReseau/VIDEO/SeriesTV/Cowboy Bebop/</rompath>
    ...
    <romext>avi|mp4|mkv</romext>
    ...

This second example abode (files launcher) will play into XBMC all the video files (having avi, mp4 or mkv extensions) that are present into the directory defined by <rompath></rompath> using the PlayMedia() built in function. All the Advanced Launcher tags (%rom%, %romfile%, etc... ) could be used into <args></args> as for other files launchers.

Changelog :

• add XBMC built in functions support for launchers (manual settings).
  
• add loading message feedback after starting an item.
  
• cleaning message display delay.
  

Angelscry Wrote:That will be better than you post your winkawaks.ini and your launcher.au3 file and your launchers.xml file using for example pastebin service so I could tell you what is wrong with your setup.

Dina Wrote:winkawaks.ini: http://pastebin.com/u9sUJPmY
launcher.au3: http://pastebin.com/7KH8dd4A
launcher.xml: http://pastebin.com/UU43Sixm

Angelscry Wrote:On the launchers.xml file argument must be %romname% and not %fullscreen% :

Code:

...
<name>Neo Geo</name>
<application>E:\Emulators\Winkawaks\WinKawaks-launcher.exe</application>
<args>[b]%romname%[/b]</args>
...