[RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC

dirtymurt Wrote:I have advanced launcher set up to launch wii games using Dolphin. All works great until you quit the game and then dolphin crashes and ultimately does not return you to xbmc. Now I know that there seems to be a long running issue with Dolphin x64 version crashing on exit from the program (not the game) on gtx 5 series cards. Is there any way to have advanced launcher exit the game and leave Dolphin running so it retuns to xbmc?

Directly from Advanced Launcher no. Are you under Windows or Linux? How do you quit the emulator?

i am using windows x64, i use esc key to quit, which it does but dolphin crashes, as it does when you completely close dolphin on x64 then no return to xbmc like you get with regular pc games for instance

dirtymurt Wrote:i am using windows x64, i use esc key to quit, which it does but dolphin crashes, as it does when you completely close dolphin on x64 then no return to xbmc like you get with regular pc games for instance

Humm... Maybe you can try to create a small autoit script, that will force to close Dolphin when you will hit the ESC key. Here is an exemple : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=43. What you can try is to adapt this script for Dolphin and disable de ESC key into Dolphin configuration. So it will be the autoit script that will close Dolphin and not Dolphin itself. You have to way to close an application :
that will close the dolpĥin-emu process, and :
that will close the Dolphin windows. I think the ProcessClose() function can do the job.

Hi Chaps.

I followed this guide on making a specialist adv. Launcher - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXx2vn3X...re=related

But instead of comics I used emu i.e.
<addon id="plugin.program.advanced.launcher.emu" name="Advanced Emulation"

I changed both the xml and py shown in the video adding the .emu
Changed the folder name adding .emu

copied the folder to the addons folder in appdata/roaming/xbmc/addons - as shown

But nothing comes up in XBMC

I even zipped the file and tried to install it both that gave me an error message of incorrect file structure.

I am using XBMC 11.0 PRE Git:20120212-a533f3b and advanced launcher 1.7.11

Any ideas

Zootoxin Wrote:Hi Chaps.

I followed this guide on making a specialist adv. Launcher - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXx2vn3X...re=related

But instead of comics I used emu i.e.
<addon id="plugin.program.advanced.launcher.emu" name="Advanced Emulation"

I changed both the xml and py shown in the video adding the .emu
Changed the folder name adding .emu

copied the folder to the addons folder in appdata/roaming/xbmc/addons - as shown

But nothing comes up in XBMC

I even zipped the file and tried to install it both that gave me an error message of incorrect file structure.

I am using XBMC 11.0 PRE Git:20120212-a533f3b and advanced launcher 1.7.11

Any ideas

If you have an error could you please post here the content of the xbmc.log file after the error occured. I suppose you have this error because you have used a text editor that do not support UTF-8 format. Look at this post : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=8...post895319. Redo all the step but edit your file with PSPad and be sur the save the files into UTF-8 format. I may works.

Awesome!!

PSPad worked a treat. Thanks.

Maybe you could add that specification to the video comments?

Zootoxin Wrote:Awesome!!

PSPad worked a treat. Thanks.

Maybe you could add that specification to the video comments?

Yes... that a good point... Thank you.

bradgy Wrote:Hi all - long time user of this wonderful add on. Last couple of weeks though the alphabetical order of all my launchers has been reversed (ie goes from Z to A rather than A to Z). Highly annoying. The 'Sort:Ascending/Descending' option in the side panel is grayed out on the ascending option so I can't switch it. Any ideas? Am I doing something really obviously wrong? Many thanks in advance!

Bumping for suggestions

bradgy Wrote:Bumping for suggestions

Your items are sorted by what : name, genre, year, studio?

Angelscry Wrote:Humm... Maybe you can try to create a small autoit script, that will force to close Dolphin when you will hit the ESC key. Here is an exemple : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=43. What you can try is to adapt this script for Dolphin and disable de ESC key into Dolphin configuration. So it will be the autoit script that will close Dolphin and not Dolphin itself. You have to way to close an application :

Code:

ProcessClose ( "dolpĥin-emu.exe" )

that will close the dolpĥin-emu process, and :

Code:

WinClose ( "Dolphin")

that will close the Dolphin windows. I think the ProcessClose() function can do the job.

sounds like it could work, I will try it later, thanks