[LaunchBox fails to copy/remove images]

I've been encountering this issue many, many times in LaunchBox:

- click on a game, look through some of the images in the side panel

- edit the game, update the name

- LaunchBox fails to rename some of the images

 

Similarly:

- click on a game, look through some of the images in the side panel

- edit the game, remove an image

- LaunchBox fails to remove the image

 

In both cases, the error message is "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." But the "other process" *is* LaunchBox, I don't have any other processes running on my PC that are accessing these images.

[Launch game remotely - eg via rest api]

LB and BB are frontends, and their job essentially boils down to making your game library look nice and to launching emulators, typically with a specific game loaded. It sounds like what you want to do is something that would be better handled by the emulator itself, perhaps by using a script that, for example, sends the correct command line arguments to your desired emulator. Running such a script via some your favorite form of automation (API call, scheduled task, etc) would be pretty straightforward then. But if you want LB or BB to be the program that launches a particular game, you might be able to pull off some AHK trickery to get that to happen, though that seems kind of hackey and potentially complicated.

[Where are Custom Fields stored within the XMLs?]

On 11/6/2017 at 11:40 AM, Jason Carr said:

Unfortunately that may require a plugin for the moment. There's a method that you can use called SelectedGame.GetAllCustomFields() which returns an array of ICustomField, but I don't think there's a good way to get at the data in XAML without using a plugin currently.

How would one go about creating such a plugin? I'm pretty well-versed when it comes to programming but have no experience with XAML or C#. I've been able to use a ListBox in XAML to expose all of the custom fields for a given game, but I can't filter it down to just the one field I want. 

[9.8-beta-1 Released]

42 minutes ago, Mute64 said:

Just got this error while trying to update to 9.8 beta 6

 

Could not find a part of the path 'Z:\BigBox - Launchbox\PauseThemes\Default\Default.xaml'.

App:     Big Box
Version: 9.8-beta-6
Type:    System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException
Site:    Void WinIOError(Int32, System.String)
Source:  mscorlib

   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.File.InternalWriteAllBytes(String path, Byte[] bytes, Boolean checkHost)
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.App..ctor()
   at ()
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.BigBoxProgram.Main()

Recent Log:

   10:14:46 AM Exception

Just got this error when updating to 9.8 beta 6

 

Could not find a part of the path 'Z:\BigBox - Launchbox\PauseThemes\Default\Default.xaml'.

App:     Big Box
Version: 9.8-beta-6
Type:    System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException
Site:    Void WinIOError(Int32, System.String)
Source:  mscorlib

   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.File.InternalWriteAllBytes(String path, Byte[] bytes, Boolean checkHost)
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.App..ctor()
   at ()
   at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.BigBox.BigBoxProgram.Main()

Recent Log:

   10:14:46 AM Exception

 

EDIT: Just ended up creating that path, fixed the error for now.

This directory is automatically created and populated if you launch LaunchBox, but for some reason BigBox doesn't automatically create it. So if anyone else is having trouble with that, try booting up LaunchBox first, then switch over to BigBox. The update installer should ideally have created that folder though...

[BigBox Recognized as Virus]

In the latest beta update (9.6beta-4), Bitdefender began recognizing BigBox.exe as containing malware. A scan against 70 antivirus systems returned 9 virus threats, the report can be seen here: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/8b533f04a860a1a97b4bf19cfb0f0b020f5ef045f265b63d5b385f58005b9a12/detection

Should I be concerened about these results, or can someone confirm that this is a false positive and that it'd be safe to exclude the file from the search results?