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24 minutes ago, jathlon77 said:
Is this plugin still functional?
I haven't tried it in a while but it should be. Are you having issues with it?
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31 minutes ago, whg said:
No worries! I'm wondering - I noticed a strange behavior shortly after installing the plug-in and I want to test uninstalling it to see if the behavior reverts back to original as well. I renamed the Plugins folder to Plugins (old), but the Thirdparty folder appears to overwrote some files, and of course, I didn't attempt to back up the originals beforehand. Do you have an easy way to uninstall so I can test, or can you tell me which files specifically I need to recover? And do you know an easier way of getting the originals rather than re-installing LB?
The plugin doesn't overwrite any Launchbox files. All of the files in the release are unique to thirdscreen. So to uninstall just download and unzip the latest release to get the file list and then delete all of those files from your Launchbox folder.
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5 minutes ago, whg said:
I apologize if I missed this, but is there any way to add a transition effect in between marquees? For example, I think the native marquee support fades out the old while fading in the new. Not a deal breaker, but figured I'd ask!
No, not currently.
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1 hour ago, Vitaly17 said:
If you launch the game through launchbox, then ledblinky first tells the management of another game, then the one that starts and everything works fine.
Through the Bigbox, the control of the desired game speaks immediately, but after the buttons go out. I have tested it several times.@Vitaly17 Does this one work any better for you?
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31 minutes ago, Vitaly17 said:
Sorry, I was in a hurry. There are problems with Ledblinky. The panel lights up properly but then fades out.
Ok, thanks. Does blinky not work consistently if you try the shortcut a few times? I've noticed that in general blinky just sometimes decides not to work when a game is launched. Also, does blinky work when you use the game shortcut with LaunchBox open instead of BigBox?
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50 minutes ago, TapeWorm said:
Hey bud, first of all thank you for this tool, I really appreciate it.
I'm wondering if it's possible to skip the game menu when launching games?
The reason I ask is because my theme plays a video preview in the individual game menus, and when launching via Streamdeck, it'll open the game menu before starting the game. But the video+sound from the video-preview will play in the background. I have the option to skip the game menu enabled in Big Box, but it seems that launching via the plugin will still show it. I'll look for a way to disable video previews in just the game menu in case this is how things need to work. Wondering if anyone else has come across this issue?
The second oddity I noticed is that if I launch games one after another without exiting the game menus mentioned above, then it's like it's stacking the back-button history in Big Box. As-in, if I launch Duck Hunt and then launch HotD after closing Duck Hunt, then the back button will take me from the HotD's game menu back to Duck Hunt's game menu. I.e. if I launch 5 games, then hitting back will bring me to the previous game's menu. Kind of like clicking back through a web browser's history.
@TapeWorm Sure, if you want to skip navigating to the game menu before the game is launched then grab the latest version and replace the "launch" command with "launch_without_menu". One thing to keep in mind though, if you have a marquee and are using BigBox's default marquee support, then the marquee will not update correctly when you skip navigating to the game menu. You would have to switch to using the ThirdScreen plugin for the marquee to work correctly with this command.
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12 minutes ago, Undertherainbow said:
Is it possible to get something like what default plus theme is doing .....
12 minutes ago, Undertherainbow said:So far i see , there is only option to display one or the other, not mix of both?
@Undertherainbow Thanks for the suggestion. You are correct that currently it will display one or the other and not overlay them. When I have time I'll look into it and see if it's something I want to add. The hardest part with adding options like this is usually how to keep the user interface simple (not so much the implementation).
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@shrek6446 Thanks for pointing this out. I uploaded a new version (v4.0.0) which should fix the issue.
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15 minutes ago, shrek6446 said:
This addin is awesome.. I have been looking for a great way to integrate my Streamdeck and Bigbox together..
I am able to get the Platform and Game Shortcuts working great but the Playlist isn't working correctly... Is there anything that I need to differently compared to the example.
I created a playlist in Launchbox called "Pokemon" and created the script based on your example. I also double checked and I see the playlist in Big Box and the path was correct (again the game and platform scripts work great).
Any Thoughts?
@shrek6446 Glad to hear it's working for you. For the playlist shortcut that isn't working, can you provide the following:
1. Please post the log file located at LaunchBox/Logs/StreamDeckGameLauncher.txt
2. What is the full command line you are using?
3. Open LaunchBox. right click on the playlist, choose edit, and send a screen shot of the Edit Playlist window.
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On 1/17/2024 at 1:15 AM, damageinc86 said:
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is this useful for? Genuinely curious.
Some people just like to have a simple text file listing of their game drive that they can reference or share. That's about it...
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30 minutes ago, olvrteil said:
Hello, don't understand how it works. Would you explain a little bit ?
I created a text file with AHK extension, but how do you use it in streamdeck ? if i just do a shortcut, windows ask with what program to open file.
I downloaded autohotkey but when i open file i have an error This line does not contain a recognized action.
Thanks
Sure, no problem. Let's work through it and then I'll update the instructions to be more clear.
First off, you have to have both AutoHotKey and the Stream Deck App installed, but it sounds like you've done that already.
Then create a one-line text file with extension ahk using the command you want from the instructions (replace anything in brackets with the correct value).
Now close the script file, right click it, and choose "compile script". That should give you an executable file.
Open the Stream Deck app and in the GUI drag the "open" action (the rocket ship icon) onto the button you want to use.
Now on the App/File line, click the "Select a file" button.
Select the executable file that you created above.
At that point you should be able to press the Stream Deck button to run the command.
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24 minutes ago, erax0r said:
Do you know, is there a bug filed for whatever is causing the issues behind the need for this? Also does your plugin gracefully close everything down?
There have been a few posts about crashes or running out of memory when running for a long time, but not everyone has those issues and I guess it's a hard thing to recreate and track down. In any case, after setting up this plugin on my own arcade I've been able to run it 24/7 for the last year without any issues. Prior to that I could only go a couple of days at most.
The plugin closes BigBox and tells Windows to do the reboot. Windows handles gracefully shutting down any other open applications.
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9 hours ago, bojo5150 said:
@superrob3000 First I wasn't to say thank you for your work, this looks amazing! I've not yet invested in a stretched screen or anything yet, but I intend too sometime soon. I have a few compatibility questions I wanted to ask.
1) Are there any compatibility issues using this in Windows 7? I've opted out of ever upgrading to 10+ simply for the fear of having to test games, reinstall games or apps, re-write scripts, etc... as the time commitment feels too large, at least for the time being.
2) I'm still on an old version of LB/BB (9.7). I see your tool says it requires 13+. What doesn't work on versions prior to 13? Its obviously been years since I've upgraded LB/BB, if I do, will any settings need to be reconfigured or anything or is it a seamless upgrade? (Sorry, probably a dumb question its just that I haven't done this in a very long time!)
3) Now having a sense of my older setup, any other gotchas or compatibility concerns you have or would point out?
Thanks in advance!
My guess is that it should work fine on windows 7 but I've never tested it. However it will most likely crash at startup if you try to use it with Launchbox 9.7. It relies on some things (like rotating 3d box models for example) that weren't available in Launchbox back then.
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v3.0.0 is now available. @izzishor if you click the gear icon in the upper right, there is now an option to disable the check for a BigBox main screen conflict which was causing you trouble.
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On 10/22/2023 at 11:23 AM, Vitaly17 said:
You probably misunderstood me. The plugin works great in bigbox. But I need to be able to run the game with my streamdeсk, it uses scripts.
Ah, I see. That won't be possible with thirdscreen. It will only work if you launch the game from launchbox or bigbox.
(Edit 12/17/2023: You can now use my "CLI Launcher" plugin to add stream deck shortcuts that launch games directly through LaunchBox/BigBox instead of RocketLauncher. ThirdScreen marquees and LED Blinky will get updated automatically.)
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No scripts needed. Just follow the directions on the file description page. There is a GUI to add your additional screens and choose which art you want to display on each one.
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21 minutes ago, izzishor said:
Help? Apparently ThirdScreen identifies my monitors differently than BigBox and as a result I can't have a Marquee because it thinks Marquee is Monitor 3, while monitor 3 is in fact my main CRT main monitor... and from time to time this error arises on my arcade... anyway to bypass it? I tried looking in the config but it doesn't seem I can do anything about it...
Windows can get weird sometimes with display numbering. I'll add an option to bypass that check.
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5 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:
Is there any way to have this app start with Launchbox, rather than having to load it each time?
Not sure what you mean. This plugin does start with launchbox.
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11 minutes ago, Truest1 said:
hey guys need help here got it up and running good with this exception. clear logos banners in png show within a black bar. how hac i fix this?
the last picture pinball FX is fine because its a mp4 video.but clear logos aint clear no more.
@Truest1 Everything looks correct in your pictures. If you want them to be fullscreen, then enable stretch for your clear logos in ThirdScreen settings. Or there is also an option to disable the image blur background.
But if you are asking for the image blur to show through the black background of the png, then that's not possible with this plugin. It's just a limitation of having been written using Forms instead of WPF.
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1 hour ago, Fry said:
Thank you for the cool plugin. Are you open to sharing the source code?
@Fry Sure, message me your github username and I'll grant you access to the repository.
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4 hours ago, ci2own said:
I want to confirm that this plugin worked for me for almost all tested platforms without any problem (More than 100).
I just found a problem on Arcade platform (MAME), where i get this error constantly:
I tried to remove all Player's Edge Plus media, but got the same result.
I accept the error, but it apears over and over again (about 20-30 times each time), and then after processing more files, appears again.
Can you send me the log file that it generated (LaunchBox/Logs/RenameLog.txt)?
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2 hours ago, dsync89 said:
If there are multiple images for a category, the plugin will randomly select one of it. Is it possible to have an option to choose an index of the image to use? I'm having an idea to have 2 sub-screens that display 2 different Player Control Information from two picture index, 00.jpg and 01.jpg.
I currently pick a wide screen control information to fit with my 3.73 AR sub-display and rename them as -00.jpg/png so that it will always be the first to be selected (recently posted here).
Thanks for the suggestion. There are no plans to implement it at the moment, but I'll add it to my list of possible future features (either the option to pin specific media to specific screens or at a minimum make sure they don't show the same media if there are multiple available for a category).
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2 hours ago, The Mask said:
with chosing the videos to play, can you add the support of relative paths? That way if we need to move our collection, we don't have to rechoose our video paths again. That's the usage of ./ or ../ or .../ instead of the drive letters
This should already be supported. For normal media we get the paths from LaunchBox which already supports relative pathing within the LB folder or full paths if it's outside the LB folder.
If you are referring to the special case of platform marquee videos, I believe I already handle those as relative as well (the media gets copied to a relative path within the LB folder when you import it).
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**** ANNOUNCEMENT *** The latest LaunchBox beta release (13.3-beta-1) causes an issue where the ThirdScreen settings page might crash and corrupt your ThirdScreen settings. The plugin itself appears to be working just fine though, so if you are on beta releases just hold off on trying to go into the ThirdScreen settings page until I release a fix. It would also be a good idea to make a backup of LaunchBox/Data/ThirdScreenSettings.xml.
Edit: This has been resolved with version 2.0.15 of the plugin.
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