[BigBox crash while sitting idle doing attract mode]

What version of Big Box are you running. I'd be curious if after moving to 11.11 if you still encountered the issue (both with videos on/off). What theme are you running when doing this and what videos do you think are the cause for what you are seeing?

[Emumovies not working since new update (11.11)]

1 hour ago, circo said:

Everyone, I added cloud flare to emumovies last night and disrupted communications to the authentication scripts.  We should have it back online within a few hours and the majority of our recent changes (and inconveniences) over at emumovies should be solved for hopefully a long while.

Thanks for the update. Backend server maintenance can be such a pain. I appreciate your dedication to putting out all the fires and keeping everyone informed of what is going on.

[RecRoom Masters 4 player controller Cup Holders]

Be far too worried about liquids spilling onto my board to ever use such a thing. Cool to see what people can make/do now though with 3D printing though.

[Emumovies not working since new update (11.11)]

I just tried as well and got the same issue. Dove into it a bit and we are getting failed results from the EmuMovies API with known good IDs and Passwords. I will reach out to EmuMovies and see if we can find the reason.

[Better Automated Playlists]

Yeah. As I said, I knew what you meant and that the lack of granular control of the AND/OR causes some playlists to be impossible. I just wanted to make you aware that the wording in the post and the examples given didn't really correlate to the real problem. I wanted to make sure it was clarified for others reading the post how it actually worked as to limit any possible confusion.

[Single platform not launching after Retroarch / Launchbox update]

We don't display it in the Edit windows but we do pass a command line parameter to RetroArch that essentially says "Load this core" based on the core you tell LaunchBox to use.

[Better Automated Playlists]

I understand the desire but your examples don't help your case at all. The way the auto-gen playlist boolean logic works is that each unique field is joined with an AND and a repeated field is treated as an OR. Because of that both examples are possible with the current auto-gen system.

For example:

Developer | Equals | Capcom
Genre | Equals | Fighting

Will give you a playlist of Capcom fighting games (as requested)

And:

Developer | Equals | Capcom
Genre | Equals | Fighting
Genre | Equals | Adventure

Will give you a playlist of Capcom Fighting OR Adventure games

Series | Equals | Mario
Title | Is Not Equal To | Mario Kart

Would result in the playlist you are requesting in your second example.

[Next and Previous Buttons Feature]

There is a BitBucket ticket you can vote on here. It placed #28 (missing the 20 item cut off) in the last feature poll.

[LB 11.10 Bad Sort by "Star Rating". Places 3.7/3.8 in "4+" section.]

If the decimal part of the rating is above .75 then it gets tossed up to the next star since it is pretty close to that number. That sort logic has been that way for a very long while and to my knowledge we've had no reports/tickets asking to change it. If you would like us to look into taking the absolute value of that data point for the sort I would suggest going to the top of the web page and selected "Help & Support" > "Request a Feature" and enter a ticket for it so we can see how popular that request is.

[Windows Game Importer]

The executable (.exe) must be in the current user or all users start menu folder hierarchy or have a registry entry in a specific path for that import to find it. It is used primary for games that used to be installed by the OS directly to the Start Menu that were otherwise extremely difficult to locate and import. Some older games used to install this way as well. The reason your example does not get caught is because that is a shortcut.

[Windows Game Importer]

24 minutes ago, DukeBannon said:

That seems to work. What are the conditions necessary for the built in Tools|Import|Windows Games to work?

Windows game importer (as stated on the first page of the importer) looks for games in your Start Menu. Most of the time you will either use the Xbox/Microsoft Store importer (if purchased via that app) or just drag drop the executable for the game into LaunchBox.

[How to have big box in attract mode on 1 monitor, while i just do my normal web browsing on another monitor?]

There is no current way to run attract mode when Big Box is not the active window/application. We have code in place that makes it impossible as having the possibility could cause issues for any game that uses a launcher (ie any Steam game). Attract mode was never designed to be a second monitor screen saver like you are going for, it was designed to be the attract mode of a arcade cabinet set up (similar to the old arcade games).

[Launchbox not starting certain platforms]

Need to make sure of the following:

Your drive is always being assigned the same letter (if LaunchBox is not on that drive). If it isn't then the paths won't line up and you'd get that error.
Your drive isn't being shut off because of your OS power options.
The file in the games application path DOES exist in the path that you have it set to.
The location doesn't have a security setting that makes it impossible for LaunchBox to read the directory or file.

[How to hide clear logos on playlists.]

<coverFlow:FlowControl x:Name="FlowControl" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Column="0" Columns="1" Endless="True"
                       CurveAmount="4.5" CameraZPosition="3.0" VisibleCount="14" PageSize="6" Spacing="1.0" ItemZPosition="1.0" SelectedItemZPosition="2.0">
  <coverFlow:FlowControl.FlowTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
      <coverFlow:FlowContext>
        <TextBlock Foreground="White" FontSize="32" Text="{Binding Name}"/>
      </coverFlow:FlowContext>
    </DataTemplate>
  </coverFlow:FlowControl.FlowTemplate>
</coverFlow:FlowControl>

Find the FlowControl in the xaml file you linked. Replace it with this. Change size, color, and font as desired in the TextBlock

[11.11 Beta Testing]

@nicolasonline Can you confirm this beta push corrected the issues you were having in your wall view?

[11.11 Beta Testing]

Thanks @neil9000 @fraganator for confirming the LaunchBox icons are back.

@kmoney @BlackSol Thanks for the report. Seems the logic we added to make sure items don't fall off too soon was causing issues so we implemented that fix in a different way for next beta release. Performance should be on par with the first beta release.

@nicolasonline Thanks for those clips and XAML. Believe I have track down the cause and have a solution in place for next beta release.

[11.11 Beta Testing]

Also those that were reporting the missing icons, can you confirm they are once again showing in LaunchBox? @neil9000 @fraganator @Blitz Mary

[11.11 Beta Testing]

3 hours ago, thimolor said:

Wheel easing option is not working in BigBox since 11.10.

Thanks for this. Was able to replicate and have code in place to correct.

[setting resolution and refresh rate manually]

To my knowledge no. If you are seeing stuttering thought you could turn down the setting in the options which will make the animations update less often which I would think would make them all appear smoother. I admit though that I'm not real sure what you are experiencing that you believe to be caused by the refresh rate.

[XAML Tips and Tricks]

Only need to set Opacity in the triggers where IsSelected AND selection active is true and onMouseOver. Should be set to 1. Set Opacity to .45 on the actual control template, not by using triggers.

[XAML Tips and Tricks]

12 minutes ago, viking said:

But "Bd" is for the border. For the blue colored text background. Not for the font !

If you have 5 min, can you integrate your idea into the piece of code I posted? Just the area to modify, that I understand your idea!

Opacity changes for the parent element and all children elements. That text is in that border and so should be affected as well. When I get the time I'll take a look. Can't guarantee it'll be right away though. May have to wait until over the weekend. Trying to get the beta squared away at the moment. Let me know if you get it before then.

[XAML Tips and Tricks]

1 minute ago, viking said:

No I don't think it's a CoverFactory. It's the quick acces alphabetical line.
The code I posted is almost the original one, from Default theme. I just did a few modification.

Basically, @Jason Carr's code uses a blue background to highlight the selected item.
I would like to remove this (easy) with an opacity game (hard)

Any ideas ?

My bad, I read that post as you wanting to do that with the games, not the index. Not tried it but, but looking at the style I'd suggest trying the following (in the ListBoxItemStyle):
Add Opacity property to the border named "Bd". Set the value to the non selected opacity value (.5)
In the trigger section where BOTH triggers are true, set the Opacity there to 1

[XAML Tips and Tricks]

Only way to do different opacities for different items in that view (if using a CoverFactory) to my knowledge is an Opacity Mask, and even that isn't exactly what you're looking for though (though you could make it look pretty convincing). The new FlowContext/Template logics let you do that, but at the moment there isn't a way to rotate items like you've shown in your more recent Colorful theme examples.

[setting resolution and refresh rate manually]

Big Box uses a back end called WPF. One important thing to understand about that is that WPF is not designed like a video game. It doesn't render every "frame" or at a predefined tick rate. It only renders frames when a change in the layout has occurred that requires us to re-render the screen. WPF by default should try and match the active monitors resolution and refresh rate. The setting you set in Big Box options sets the tick rate on animations used in Big Box so that you can make them update at the same rate as your monitor to provide smoother animations. It's important to note that animations will TRY and update at that rate, but if it takes your CPU longer than that rate to calculate all the new positions needed during that animation you COULD start to see stuttering that you wouldn't see at a lower setting. It is also important to note that the setting is NOT applied to videos. If the video is a 60hz video it WILL play at that rate and not the refresh rate you set in Big Box.

[Big box hang on low tier device]

39 minutes ago, 3dlollo said:

Do you have these issues with the default theme? Launchbox works fine, Big box does hang. I am using CoinOP theme (3.0) and Retrotastic theme (3.11). I did not try the default theme.

Those themes are currently causing issues in the version of Big Box you are using. Switch to default and let me know if you still encounter the issue.