therealjoeblow Wrote:I tested with "," commas, it fails with that too. We could argue opinion on whether "." belongs, you will find hundreds of thousands of people the world over (if not millions) who regularly use "." in their filenames, and as far as at least windows based systems goes, here are the "official" rules:

Code:

Legal characters in NTFS include the following:

    [ ] . ; = ( ) and most other punctuation except those noted below

The period (.) cannot be the first or only character in the filename

Illegal Characters:
The following characters are not permitted in Windows file or directory names:

     / \ : * ? " < > |

Could we just agree that the script should work properly with *all* legal filenaming schemes, including all legal punctuation? Applications really shouldn't be starting new character-based filename constraints that aren't imposed by the OS. That will surely confuse users and lead to problems.

Cheers
The REAL Joe

fr500 Wrote:The big problem with commas is that you use them to separate fields, attributes, etc when programming.

I think this is due to windows implementation of spaces in filenames you have to use quotes when there are spaces, so the commas in between get somehow lost.

therealjoeblow Wrote:Well, I'm no programming guru (limited VB6 experience), but it appears that there's a fundamental problem in this script.

XBMC itself has successfully scraped (with IMDB, TVDB, MovieDB and Allmusic scrapers) over 2000 of my movies, 3500 TV show episodes and 15,000 songs that use all manner of spaces and punctuation in their filenames, and it has never stumbled on one yet.

All I suggest/ask is that this script/addon at least be compatible with the full range of legal filename characters that XBMC itself and all other Windows and Linux based programs are...

Cheers
The REAL Joe

therealjoeblow Wrote:Well, I'm no programming guru (limited VB6 experience), but it appears that there's a fundamental problem in this script.

XBMC itself has successfully scraped (with IMDB, TVDB, MovieDB and Allmusic scrapers) over 2000 of my movies, 3500 TV show episodes and 15,000 songs that use all manner of spaces and punctuation in their filenames, and it has never stumbled on one yet.

All I suggest/ask is that this script/addon at least be compatible with the full range of legal filename characters that XBMC itself and all other Windows and Linux based programs are...

Cheers
The REAL Joe

srsobieraj Wrote:RealJoe is correct. I've never understoon why ALA has such a hard time with special characters and punctuation. Can't we hand-roll a "convertFilepathToXml" function for ALA? I should be able to have a file named "This.is.a.game.name.xyz" and ALA should be able to understand that "xyz" is the extension and not "is".

fr500 Wrote:The problem is not scraping, it scrapes just fine no matter spaces or whatnot. Al least for me. The problem is running the apps in my case

Angelscry Wrote:I have done this under my Linux and Windows 7 system, and in both cases the thumbs and fanarts images have been added correctly. So... I think there is something wrong on your system, but I do not know why .

fr500 Wrote:Here is a little tutorial for those who have steam and launch and depend on it for your gaming needs.

Angelscry Wrote:@therealjoeblow
Maybe... it is the presence of white spaces into your paths that generate your thumbs and fanarts problem.... It will also check this. But... it still strange.... The more strange is that Advanced Launcher is able to found the thumbs and the fanarts for your first pdf file and not for the other. Advanced Launcher if using a For loop. If it works for the first pdf file it MUST works for the others. I'm still on it

Vrok Wrote:If you just change these 2 lines and use this as a Launcher for steam .url files everything works without having to make additional batch files per game

Code:

@echo off
%1
timeout 60

rem set the next variable to the game imagename
rem (found on task manager while the game is runnimg
set process_1="GameOverlayUI.exe"

fr500 Wrote:you get messages on a huge TV where anyone can see them

mbbransc Wrote:angelscry -

When I open Adv Launcher, I can only see my DVD drive. It's a laptop so it's not convenient to unplug it. Do you have any suggestions?

thx

Vrok Wrote:I think (not too sure going to try it) that you only get sound on new messages and have to shift-tab to see the actual message ingame

• Fix local thumbs and fanart images search method: Fix the bug reported by therealjoeblow about the automatic import of local thumbs and fanart images.
  
• Fix launcher advanced menu error on windows system: The menu was not accessible. It s now fixed.
  
• Add new way to start application for windows system: This new way to start application allows finally to have a 100% compatible windows command line support for Advanced Launcher. For example, it fix the bug with romnames that was containing comas.
  
• Remove Wait/state option for windows system: This option was the cause of the non 100% compatible windows command line support. So I have simply removed it. Users that will want now to pause XBMC will need to use an external script (.bat or .sh) to do it.
  
• Auto-hide launched .bat file window: Due to the remove of the Wait/state option, the use of external scripts (.bat or .sh) will be increasingly necessary. With this new feature, any .bat files windows started as launcher will been automatically hidden.
  
• Add %rompath% and %apppath% command line parameters: This 2 news argument parameters will allows user to have a more flexible command line (for the use of specific configuration or savestate files). %apppath% is corresponding to the path of the started application and %rompath% is corresponding to the path of the roms folder.
  
• Stop playing media before launch any application: If a media (audio or video) is playing on XBMC, it will be automatically stopped to avoid any possible sound conflict between XBMC and the started applications.
  
• Fix progress display when all scrapers are deactivated: Hide the "Not Found" message displayed when scanning items with deactivated scrapers.