[CLOSED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Printable Version

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- htpc guy - 2010-12-28

daviduco Wrote:Ok i have to try the new version and check if it downloads thumbs...

One question please, If I want to add a SNES emulator with 50 roms in one folder, can the addon make the launchers per each rom or do i have to add these one by one?

Can the launcher pick my my own thumbs named like those batch files or roms in .jpg or .png??

If you have your thumbs/fanart named correctly then it should use local images.
example:
romname.bin
romname_thumb.jpg
romname_fanart.jpg

- daviduco - 2010-12-28

Ok i'll try it at home, thank you for your quick response =)

- Angelscry - 2010-12-28

daviduco Wrote:Ok i have to try the new version and check if it downloads thumbs...

One question please, If I want to add a SNES emulator with 50 roms in one folder, can the addon make the launchers per each rom or do i have to add these one by one?

Can the launcher pick my my own thumbs named like those batch files or roms in .jpg or .png??

If all your roms are into the same folder, indicate this folder when creating the launcher. Then into the add roms menu you will have the choise to scan and add automatically the roms, or doing it one by one (manual).

For the images you will be asked where are or will be located the thumbs and fanarts images. Here you have 2 possibilities :

fanarts and thumbs images are into the same folder, so as explained by htpc guy, if your rom is named romname.bin the corresponding images must be named romname_thumb.jpg and romname_fanart.jpg.
fanarts and thumbs images are into differents folders, if your rom is named romname.bin the corresponding images must be named romname.jpg.

If you already have all the thumbs and fanarts images into pack, I suggest you to deactivate the automatic scrap option for the thumbs and the fanarts into the add-on settings. So when you will make the scan, it will only get the roms data infos.

- jeff93063 - 2010-12-28

Angelscry, with 0.9.0 on Windows, I was having a problem with spaces in the rom path. I ran Process Monitor and checked the command line that is run when I launched a rom, and it looks like the quotes are being stripped from "%rom%". I tried doubling them but they still get stripped. Can you fix it?

Thanks again for your awesome launcher,
Jeff

- Angelscry - 2010-12-28

jeff93063 Wrote:Angelscry, with 0.9.0 on Windows, I was having a problem with spaces in the rom path. I ran Process Monitor and checked the command line that is run when I launched a rom, and it looks like the quotes are being stripped from "%rom%". I tried doubling them but they still get stripped. Can you fix it?

Yes I know this problem. I will fix it in the next days. I'm actually working on the command line support and testing a large number of different emulators to make the command line works with most of them. I'm really sorry for the actual problem. Initially I have not planned to release the version 0.9.0 so soon... but this version also fix some majors bugs.

I you do not want to wait the next version you could edit the launcher_plugin.py file and manually replace this line:

Code:
xbmc.executebuiltin("%s(\\\"%s\\\" %s )" % (cmd, launcher["application"], arguments))

by this one:

Code:
xbmc.executebuiltin("%s(\\\"%s\\\" %s \\\"%s\\\")" % (cmd, launcher["application"], launcher["args"], rom["filename"]))

and you will be able to launch applications under windows like for the previous version. Again... sorry.... Sad

Sad

- Evin - 2010-12-28

rbrohman Wrote:Try going into XBMC's file manager and adding the root directory as a source. It should then show up in ALA.

After reinstalling/deleting Advanced Launcher, it worked.
Tried it before several time without success. Maybe I messed something up.

Don't know if it is a bug, but when selecting the path to the roms, I'm not able to select the folder. Everytime I try, it jumps to the "higher folder".

Manuel Adding works, editing launchers.xml with the right path also is doing the trick.

- Angelscry - 2010-12-28

Evin Wrote:Don't know if it is a bug, but when selecting the path to the roms, I'm not able to select the folder. Everytime I try, it jumps to the "higher folder".

When you are into a directory, go the the context menu and select OK to select the directory. It is not a bug, it is how work XBMC. Wink

Wink

? - newmy51 - 2010-12-29

my completely separate thread was relocated to a single post on page 60

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=674676&postcount=600

what gives?

- Angelscry - 2010-12-29

newmy51 Wrote:my completely separate thread was relocated to a single post on page 60

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=674676&postcount=600

what gives?

Maybe an XBMC forum administrator has relocated your post here because it was a post dedicated to Advanced Launcher Add-on. Solutions to your problem are below :

XBMC for Windows : Bug with XBMC root directory access
1. give administrator rights to XBMC,
2. remove any CD or external drives from your system,
3. manually add sources into XBMC,
4. modify manually the launcher code.

- Evin - 2010-12-29

Angelscry Wrote:When you are into a directory, go the the context menu and select OK to select the directory. It is not a bug, it is how work XBMC.

Yeah, I know. Tongue

Tongue

I can't explain it better, thx to my poor english... :I

The path to my roms is /home/xbmc/roms/snes/

But there was no way, to get .../snes/ as path, besides adding it to launchers.xml.

- Angelscry - 2010-12-29

Evin Wrote:Yeah, I know.

I can't explain it better, thx to my poor english... :I

The path to my roms is /home/xbmc/roms/snes/

But there was no way, to get .../snes/ as path, besides adding it to launchers.xml.

Strange. Which version of XBMC are you using ? What is your Linux distribution and version?

- htpc guy - 2010-12-29

lindsayrg1 Wrote:Wow! Thanks htpc guy.

Can't believe that actually worked! Is this going to be fixed sometime soon or is the error that causes this still unknown? Also, do you know if this will continue happening everytime I plug in a usb or insert a disc? Finally you mention it's a windows issue...do you recommend formatting the system and installing some form of Linux?

Evin Wrote:Yeah, I know.

I can't explain it better, thx to my poor english... :I

The path to my roms is /home/xbmc/roms/snes/

But there was no way, to get .../snes/ as path, besides adding it to launchers.xml.

Have you tried enabling hidden files and folders in the XBMC settings menu?

- Evin - 2010-12-29

Angelscry Wrote:Strange. Which version of XBMC are you using ? What is your Linux distribution and version?

Using "Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS - XBMCLive Dharma".

@htpc guy:
Yes.

- nekoarashi - 2010-12-29

A bit off topic, is it just me or is there no metadata to be scraped from mameworld? I checked the main site and can't find anything rom-list related , any ideas where that information is hosted? Trying to scrape my mame-set of 3000+ titles.. @_@

- Legdiian - 2010-12-29

This looks fantastic! I'm trying to get this working with XBMC 10.0 running on OS X 10.6.5. So far I have only been able to get XBMC to launch the emulator (doesn't actually show the emulator but if I command-tab I can see it running), but not load a rom image. I have added ""%rom%" to the arguments section and it doesn't seem to help. Is OS X a supported OS or am I trying to do something that can't be done? I have tried SNES9x and BSNES if that matters.