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RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2012-11-20 (2012-11-20, 19:32)Rob Loach Wrote: Was looking around for a NeoGeo emulator for Linux, and ran into GnGeo:According to Gngeo man, Gngeo command line is under this form : Code: gngeo -i /home/flurbly/neogeo/roms mslug2 where /home/flurbly/neogeo/roms is the roms/bios path and mslug2 the rom name. So Advanced Launcher configuration will be something like this : Application : gngeo Arguments : -i "%romspath%" %romname% File Extenstion : zip Concerning a good scraper, I thikn the NeoGeo AES system is sufficiently old to be catalogued by all the game scrapers included into Advanced Launcher. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - dugan26 - 2012-11-20 Many Thanks - RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - atsumori - 2012-11-23 Hey Angelscry, Would it be possible to add a %romtitle% variable for our command line options that would give the rom title as listed under the <name> tag in launchers.xml? Those of us that use scripts/batch files to launch our roms could use this information to post "Now playing <romtitle>" to our twitter, facebook, or messaging accounts. I know there's already a romname option, but that refers to the actual file name (ex: sf2.zip) not the rom title itself ("Street Fighter 2"). I also noticed that %rombasename% is no longer functional. Thanks for considering! RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2012-11-23 (2012-11-23, 17:15)atsumori Wrote: Would it be possible to add a %romtitle% variable for our command line options that would give the rom title as listed under the <name> tag in launchers.xml? Those of us that use scripts/batch files to launch our roms could use this information to post "Now playing <romtitle>" to our twitter, facebook, or messaging accounts.I think it will not be really diffcult to add this new variable. (2012-11-23, 17:15)atsumori Wrote: I also noticed that %rombasename% is no longer functional.I will check what is going wrong. Thank you for the feedback. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - DigitalAnvil - 2012-11-23 I'm been searching and searching without success to know if Advanced Launcher works with MySQL? I am currently using Frodo (an older version prior to Beta 1) that I have setup with MySQL for all my movies. All of them are stored on a Synology NAS with their thumbs, nfo, fanart and everything in their own respective folders. This content is being shared amongst 2 laptops, 2 desktops and 3 HTPCs scattered around the house. I use only 1 of my desktops to scrape upon boot up (and run it right away after adding new content). It works great because the content is updated through MySQL and available right away on the other boxes Is it possible to use Advanced Launcher in the same manner where I only setup and scape emulators/files once using one box and have it all stored (in folders and MySQL) to make it easily shareable amongst the other boxes (without having to setup each one individually?)? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2012-11-23 (2012-11-23, 21:36)DigitalAnvil Wrote: I'm been searching and searching without success to know if Advanced Launcher works with MySQL? I am currently using Frodo (an older version prior to Beta 1) that I have setup with MySQL for all my movies. All of them are stored on a Synology NAS with their thumbs, nfo, fanart and everything in their own respective folders. This content is being shared amongst 2 laptops, 2 desktops and 3 HTPCs scattered around the house. I use only 1 of my desktops to scrape upon boot up (and run it right away after adding new content). It works great because the content is updated through MySQL and available right away on the other boxesNo, Advanced Launcher do not use MySQL databse, and I do not think it will be possible to do it for several reasons :
RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - atsumori - 2012-11-24 (2012-11-23, 17:27)Angelscry Wrote:(2012-11-23, 17:15)atsumori Wrote: Would it be possible to add a %romtitle% variable for our command line options that would give the rom title as listed under the <name> tag in launchers.xml? *snip*I think it will not be really diffcult to add this new variable. Thanks a lot! RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - DigitalAnvil - 2012-11-24 (2012-11-23, 23:29)Angelscry Wrote:(2012-11-23, 21:36)DigitalAnvil Wrote: I'm been searching and searching without success to know if Advanced Launcher works with MySQL? I am currently using Frodo (an older version prior to Beta 1) that I have setup with MySQL for all my movies. All of them are stored on a Synology NAS with their thumbs, nfo, fanart and everything in their own respective folders. This content is being shared amongst 2 laptops, 2 desktops and 3 HTPCs scattered around the house. I use only 1 of my desktops to scrape upon boot up (and run it right away after adding new content). It works great because the content is updated through MySQL and available right away on the other boxesNo, Advanced Launcher do not use MySQL databse, and I do not think it will be possible to do it for several reasons : I saw that SMB paths don't work correctly (a possible fix in the future maybe?) in several posts and mouting drives would be the best bet (especially since windows allows you to mount them automatically at bootup) So to effectively execute this, the best option would be to set it up on 1 system. Let it scrape and create it own db locally. Manually fix any file that were named incorrectly and/or adjust whatever needs to be fixed up in terms of thumbs, art and nfo. Once done, I can just copy that locally stored db to the 2nd machine (of course after having installed the addon and setting it up for the 2nd box). The only reason I don't want to scrape it again and again on each machine is mainly so the db is consistent on each box. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2012-11-24 (2012-11-24, 01:34)DigitalAnvil Wrote: I saw that SMB paths don't work correctly (a possible fix in the future maybe?)SMB paths do not works correctly because they are not supported by Advanced Launcher. Having a SMB support is useless if the started applications/emulators cannot support them. (2012-11-24, 01:34)DigitalAnvil Wrote: So to effectively execute this, the best option would be to set it up on 1 system. Let it scrape and create it own db locally. Manually fix any file that were named incorrectly and/or adjust whatever needs to be fixed up in terms of thumbs, art and nfo.I'm agree with you until this point... (2012-11-24, 01:34)DigitalAnvil Wrote: Once done, I can just copy that locally stored db to the 2nd machine (of course after having installed the addon and setting it up for the 2nd box). The only reason I don't want to scrape it again and again on each machine is mainly so the db is consistent on each box.If you do that : emulators/launchers paths and setups, items/roms paths, and thumb nfo and fanart paths will not be correct. What you can do for example :
RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2012-11-24 (2012-11-24, 00:24)atsumori Wrote:Added to version 1.10.7.(2012-11-23, 17:27)Angelscry Wrote:(2012-11-23, 17:15)atsumori Wrote: Would it be possible to add a %romtitle% variable for our command line options that would give the rom title as listed under the <name> tag in launchers.xml? *snip*I think it will not be really diffcult to add this new variable. Version 1.10.7 : This new version of Advanced Launcher add the new variable : %romtitle%. This varible will pass through the command line arguments the title (scraped or manually edited) of an item. This version also fix the %rombasename% non-working variable (code line commented by mistake). Changelog :
Start Windows 8 Metro Apps - Angelscry - 2012-11-24 Start Windows 8 Metro Apps. First you need to create Internet shortcuts (.url files) that will point to the right application url. For the credits, the description how to proceed come from this website : http://www.itsjustwhatever.com/2012/10/28/launch-windows-8-metro-apps-from-a-desktop-shortcut-or-command-line/ 1. Found a Windows 8 Metro application URL :
Here is an example for the Pinball FX2 game. The application URL is : xboxliveapp-1297290209. 2. Create the internet shortcut files :
Here is an example with the previous Pinball FX2 game application URL. Do the same for all the Windows 8 applications you want to start from XBMC and put all the created shortcut files into the same directory. 3. Setup Advanced Launcher :
Once the launcher is created, perform a "scan new items" to add the Metro Applications into Advanced Launcher. Actually this method works great on my system to start Metro Application (but not for all the applications). To close and application an return to XBMC you just have to use the ALT+ESC keys combination. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - mjeyre - 2012-11-26 is there a way to make an exe from advanced launcher appear in the main xbmc screen menu under programs please? M RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - fr500 - 2012-11-26 Generally speaking, it depends on the skin, most implement this by using favorites RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - atsumori - 2012-11-26 (2012-11-24, 05:33)Angelscry Wrote:Thanks Angelscry for all your hard work!(2012-11-24, 00:24)atsumori Wrote:Added to version 1.10.7.(2012-11-23, 17:27)Angelscry Wrote: I think it will not be really diffcult to add this new variable. I did notice one bug with %romtitle%. It looks like "/" characters are converted to odd, non-ascii characters when they are passed through %romtitle% (it looks sort of like "a,,,"). There might be other characters that have conversion issues, though so far the characters below seem ok: -double quotes ["] -single quotes ['] -spaces [ ] -dashes [-] -underbars [_] -colons [:] -semicolons [;] -period [.] -comma [,] RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - mjeyre - 2012-11-26 Hi Ive created an exe that runs fine through advanced launcher thankyou ! and working towards a big launch for Sky GO on xbmc but running into a few problems, Is there a way to create a quit script to emulate alt+f4 keypress. My exe will not quit back to xbmc. heres my posts http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=145312 any help most appreciated M |