[pseudoheld]

big props for your continued work on the Launcher app. it works great for me with my mame roms!
heres a little problem i have. the coverart first didnt work for me. i had it in my roms folder with same title and everything but it just didnt appera. i then deleted my rom folder from the library and re-imported it, the images then showed up. so it would be cool if the images could be added via update/rescan without having to remove the whole folder and readding it!
Thx again
pseudo

[Revol]

Thanks a lot JustSomeUser, I'm really enjoying the new features.

I got a problem, though. I'm looking for people who have experience successfully running an NES emulator. For the life of me I cannot get one working that will go into full screen via the Launcher and has working sound. Take FCEU; it runs fine using the GFCEU, both fullscreen and sound, but using FCEU commandline in Launcher, the sound doesn't work.

So then I tried other emulators (like Mednafen), but the fullscreen is broken, and I can't get sound to work at ALL in Mednafen. uurgh

[Blumps]

Hi,

I can't get newest launcher to work as I would like to.
Spotify opens normally, but it gives an error which says "invalid option". If I'm not clicking "Ok" or "Cancel" I can use Spotify normally. If I click Ok or Cancel Spotify goes background and XBMC comes in front. It always gives this error message..and it's annoying me as hell. Any ideas what might cause this "invalid option" -error message?

Other thing. Is it possible to add spotify as a link in a main menu?

[zosky]

kricker
You can also execute the Launcher script from a home menu item, but I'm not sure how to actually choose one of those applications directly.

Code:

<onclick>XBMC.ActivateWindow(Programs,plugin://programs/Launcher)</onclick>

This is the issue I want to solve... how to directly launch a specific app using launcher, without using the launcher menu?

this is way old (page 30 // 8.months) but its what google pointed to when i searched kicker, thanks for the 1st half. i added an app to myFav & watched the log to see what it was doing ...

• to start an app...<onclick>runPlugin(plugin://programs/Launcher/?[app-name]</onclick>
  
  
• to open a rom dir...<onclick>ActivateWindow(Programs,plugin://programs/Launcher/?[rom-launcher-name]</onclick>
  

cheers

[i*windows]

really excellent stuff thanks guys.

[lawsy5]

Hi guys I have been using and fiddling with launcher for about 3 months now, Ive managed to twist to do all kinds of things beyond launching games or emulators. My current endeavor is launching ebooks using adobe reader and I have no problem in launching an ebook or anything with the plugin however I have run into problems while trying to extend the code. I wanted to add a description field to the rom definition (I have it set up so the author is the application and each book is listed as a rom) and I would very much like to be able to assign a blurb to each book, much like is shown by albums and movies in their respective views. I realise that this requires editing the skin to recognize an extra field and I have already managed to edit the polaroid skin from transparency! to look like a stack of books. My issue isnt with having the skin find the data, it is with having the plugin process the stored information from the xml, I confess my xml skills are somewhat better than my poor python skills.

I dont need any automated scraping or the like as I can edit the xml file directly, I just hoped someone with more adapt python skills might be able to help me with the processing portion.

In short I have added an additional field to each rom entry as <desc></desc>
and attempted (in vain) to have the python file launcher_plugin.py process this as romdata["desc"] = romdesc but unfortunately the script now fails when i execute it, I need to process this field in the python script such that the <desc> field can be interpreted by the skin xml as <label>$INFO[ListItem.desc]</label>

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me unravel this small mess, I would ask Leo himself as he coded it in the first place but I know he has moved onto the Games Library project now.

[yngwi]

Hi,
I've got a few problems/questions:
I was able to install laucher fine and in the xbmc interface i can choose a snes or nes rom just fine, but when launching the rom, the emulators (ZSNES or Nestopia) just launch without a rom loading. Nestopia gives a "File not found" error, ZSNES just starts in GUI mode without a message and without loading anything. I'll show you how the emulators are configured:

Nestopia:

Code:

<launcher>
        <name>Nestopia</name>
        <application>D:\Anwendungen\Spiele\Emulatoren\Nestopia\nestopia.exe</application>
        <args></args>
        <rompath>D:\Anwendungen\Spiele\Emulatoren\ROMS\NES\</rompath>
        <romext>nes|nst</romext>
        <thumb></thumb>
        <wait>true</wait>
        <roms>
            <rom>
                <name>Exodus (u) (v4.0) [!]</name>
                <filename>D:\Anwendungen\Spiele\Emulatoren\ROMS\NES\Exodus (U) (V4.0) [!].nes</filename>
                <thumb></thumb>
            </rom></roms>
    </launcher>

ZSNES:

Code:

<launcher>
        <name>ZSNES</name>
        <application>D:\Anwendungen\Spiele\Emulatoren\ZSnes\zsnesw.exe</application>
        <args></args>
        <rompath>D:\Anwendungen\Spiele\Emulatoren\ROMS\Snes\</rompath>
        <romext>sfc|mgd|fig|swc|smc|srm|zst</romext>
        <thumb></thumb>
        <wait>true</wait>
        <roms>
            <rom>
                <name>X-kaliber 2097 (e)</name>
                <filename>D:\Anwendungen\Spiele\Emulatoren\ROMS\Snes\X-Kaliber 2097 (E).mgd</filename>
                <thumb></thumb>
            </rom></roms>
    </launcher>

As a second question:
The rom lists are sorted by date. Is there any way that I can sort them alphabetically?
Regards,
Daniel

[zosky]

@yngwi, there is a fix for both issues (sort order & files with <spaces>)
i know this thread is now 60 pages long , but read it

[rausch101]

At this point, there are so many tools/plugins/features for XBMC that depend on this plugin. I personally depend on it for a variety of things including seamless integration of Live TV, web browsing, and several multi-player PC games. I'm not sure what percentage of users actually use this, but I imagine a large portion looking to go beyond media end up needing this at some point.


Is there any plan to have this (or some form of this) implemented into the SVN as an official feature?


I'm aware of the Games Library, but as far as I know that doesn't include everything that this plugin is capable of. Considered starting a new thread, but thought I'd see here first Correct me if I'm wrong please

And great job leo2.

[coendeurloo]

Awesome program!

Could someone tell me how to install, for instance, Firefox on an XBMCLive (XBMC + Linux) system? I bet it has to be some terminal code...but how?

[yngwi]

@yngwi, there is a fix for both issues (sort order & files with <spaces>)
i know this thread is now 60 pages long , but read it

Thanks for your reply!
I already did that, and found a fix
I just forgot to report that... :o

[Alceste]

Hey guys!
Probably this problem has already come up, but the thread is huge!! Anyway When I follow the steps on the first page of the thread by adding the launcher to my games section in XBMC I can only see the folder structure- no content or anything. However I click on add to favorites but there is no icon or arrow in the bottom right corner..

[coendeurloo]

I have managed to install firefox by using a guide somewhere else on the forum (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=54318)

However when I open firefox, the firefox window is too large and the focus is still on XBMC, not the new firefox window... I'm using XBMCLive.

[kurojaki]

Hey guys!
Probably this problem has already come up, but the thread is huge!! Anyway When I follow the steps on the first page of the thread by adding the launcher to my games section in XBMC I can only see the folder structure- no content or anything. However I click on add to favorites but there is no icon or arrow in the bottom right corner..

I have the exact problem. Did the steps in the first thread, but all i get is folder structure. No content och app to run?

EDIT: Okey, so i got the launcher to work (have put it in the wrong dir every f***ing time)
Now im wondering wot it should say at "APPLICATION ARGUMENTS" ??
Ive tested visualboyadvance, snes9x and epsxe, all detects roms/games, but no game will start. Im just getting error

[Alceste]

I have the exact problem. Did the steps in the first thread, but all i get is folder structure. No content och app to run?

EDIT: Okey, so i got the launcher to work (have put it in the wrong dir every f***ing time)
Now im wondering wot it should say at "APPLICATION ARGUMENTS" ??
Ive tested visualboyadvance, snes9x and epsxe, all detects roms/games, but no game will start. Im just getting error

Hey man could you be so grateful and tell me the RIGHT place ^^ `?