Jason Carr

Alright, beta 9 is out. The past week has been quite a trip development-wise; I set out to automatically upgrade all the themes, and then ran into a million hitches. The theming strategy has been changed slightly; I'll be updating the themes post here with the details shortly: The good news is I did find quite a few ways to optimize things and speed things up in the process, so this new beta should have improved performance for saving data as well as VLC video playback and Big Box themes.

@Xpendable I guess that does make sense that CoverFlow is just pushing the memory limits there. The memory is all cleaned up when you leave that view, but if you have enough games in the list to hit the limit, then you will hit it. There is a CoverFlow Image Quality setting in the Big Box options that should help if you set it to a lower value (it uses a smaller image cache and thus less memory if you use lower quality).

Unfortunately I can't dive in any deeper for the moment @Mr. RetroLust.

This can be done with a WPF DataGrid control. We actually do it in LaunchBox in the ListContentView.xaml file, I believe. This will do it though: <DataGrid.RowStyle> <Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridRow}"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="AlternationIndex" Value="0"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="White" /> </Trigger> <Trigger Property="AlternationIndex" Value="1"> <Setter Property="Background" Value="WhiteSmoke" /> </Trigger> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=Selectable}" Value="False"> <DataTrigger.Setters> <Setter Property="Background" Value="LightGray" /> </DataTrigger.Setters> </DataTrigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> </DataGrid.RowStyle> Stole it from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11435501/how-to-make-a-wpf-datagrid-with-alternating-row-colors-and-a-fix-color-section/11437349

Gotcha. Yeah, you can go here to download your correct license: https://www.launchbox-app.com/premium/lost-license I'd still appreciate any info you have on where you bought the drive originally. You can private message me if you'd rather.

Ugh. Who did you buy the drive from? I won't hold anything against you, but I would appreciate if you could PM me info on it so that I can stop them from selling pirated copies of LaunchBox.

The process is just to make a new game, call it Plex, and then point the Application Startup field to plex's URL.

My only issue here is that it doesn't sound like you have the knowledge required to re-build the setup, and unfortunately I can't hold your hand to do it, because it would take a long time. I really have no idea what kind of state your collection is in, or what happened to mess it up in the first place. I do have to say just in case anyone else ends up on this thread, buying a pre-configured hard drive is always a terrible idea. But anyways, if you don't have a backup of the collection that was working, unfortunately starting over may be your best bet.

If you didn't set up Rocket Launcher than Rocket Launcher shouldn't be the emulator. Did you set up your collection? Or get it from somebody else?

You probably don't want your oldest backups, unless you really want to go back to that point in time. It might help to look at file sizes on the XMLs. It can be a pain to figure out exactly what to restore. Can you post a screenshot of your LaunchBox\Data\Platforms folder in windows explorer with the details columns?

You mean backups from your LaunchBox\Backups folder or your own personal backups?

@KevinP It sounds like your data got corrupted somehow. Do you have any backups of your LaunchBox\Data folder? If not, you can look in LaunchBox\Backups for backups of them, if they go back far enough.

No, it's not actually crashing. It will come back eventually if you just wait long enough. That's pretty much irrelevant though.

Yeah, I am aware of this. It's not crashed in that scenario, it just takes a long time to load up the list. Windows doesn't have a good multi-select drop down control, unfortunately, which is the reason for the issue. It is on my list.

Sweet.

Hello all, sorry for another massive callout in the span of a couple days lol. @NJDave71 has generously contributed the code to his HelperControl plugin for Big Box themes and I've integrated it into Big Box, so going forward, the control itself will no longer be needed. However, themes will not be automatically changed to use the new built-in controls (sans for TotalGamesCount as mentioned in the other thread). There is no rush on this as the code for these features hasn't been changed, only integrated into Big Box, so there is no harm in continuing to use the HelperControl, at least for now. These new changes will be out in 9.4-beta-9, which should be out shortly, but it's not out quite yet. The controls and examples are below. RemoveNewLineConverter and ScrollableTextBlock Previously ScrollableTextBlock was already available in Big Box without the HelperControl, but it's a vertical scrolling TextBlock instead of a horizontal scrolling TextBlock like the HelperControl, so the name of the control in Big Box is now HorizontalScrollableTextBlock. RemoveNewLineConverter is new and simply removes new lines from text; it's typically used for the scrolling descriptions, which is why they are together here in this example: xmlns:wpf="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf" xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf.Controls;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf" <UserControl.Resources> <wpf:RemoveNewLineConverter x:Key="RemoveNewLineConverter" /> </UserControl.Resources> <controls:HorizontalScrollableTextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Notes, Converter={StaticResource RemoveNewLineConverter}}" FontSize="46" Height="50" ScrollSpeed="100" /> FindStringConverter FindStringConverter is used largely to convert string values to different values. For example, to show an image based on the value of a field: xmlns:wpf="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf" <UserControl.Resources> <wpf:FindStringConverter x:Key="FindStringConverter" /> </UserControl.Resources> <Image> <Image.Style> <Style TargetType="{x:Type Image}"> <Style.Triggers> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=ActiveGame.PlayMode, Converter={StaticResource FindStringConverter}, ConverterParameter='Single Player'}" Value="True"> <Setter Property="Source" Value="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Default/Single Player.png"/> </DataTrigger> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=ActiveGame.PlayMode, Converter={StaticResource FindStringConverter}, ConverterParameter='Cooperative'}" Value="True"> <Setter Property="Source" Value="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Default/Cooperative.png"/> </DataTrigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> </Image.Style> </Image> Thanks again to @NJDave71 for his code. @faeran @Mr. RetroLust @RetroHumanoid @wallmachine @eatkinola @bbweiners @keltoigael @Jack. @y2guru @whoozwah @SNAK3ATER @Rincewind @CriticalCid @shro2016 @broskiplays @Grila @NJDave71 @Hexxxer @PhillsDoodles @Zombeaver @Omen @Cookz718 @viking @OrochiMishima @nosh @ea4492 @Maddoc1007 @vsilvalopes @damageinc86 @walter10h @skainlurmis @Scottad @Nyny77 @Sithel @Akezhar @Thanos Reigns

Just put out a new beta which should hopefully fix the upgrade processes for @eatkinola's themes, and also FutureState Neon Deluxe by @Mr. RetroLust. My apologies for the number of betas required to get this right. Hopefully we'll be good now, but let me know if not. Do keep in mind that unfortunately, if you've used previous betas, you'll need to re-download the affected themes from the forums as they were previously left in an incorrect state.

Beta 8 is out now with more fixes for theme upgrades. We discovered some issues with upgrading some of @eatkinola's themes, such as Refaktor, MinimalX, and Nostalgia, and also FutureState Neon Deluxe by @Mr. RetroLust. I believe all these themes should upgrade properly with this new beta, but again, unfortunately you will have to remove them from Big Box and re-download them from the forums if you've used previous betas.

Gotcha. To be honest I have seen that before, but it's been a very long time so I forgot about it. I think the corrupted image cache issue is just a really rare occurrence so I haven't been able to pin it down. I'm glad you're at least squared away for now. I need to remember to suggest that people clear the image cache if that suddenly run into performance issues like that.

Thank you @Cauptain; I'll have this translation in for the next beta.

Let's talk and come up with a plan here; I'll PM you. I think the first thing that I should change is to not delete the Styles folder if there are extra files in there, and only remove the Styles XAML files that no longer apply. That's fairly easy to do. I'll hit you up.

@eatkinola There's really nothing to worry about. I'll fix the issue tomorrow and everything will upgrade smoothly. Just give me a day.

@Undertherainbow I haven't checked that theme in detail, but I have found the issue. Thanks for reporting it and helping me troubleshoot. There's an FSAnimations.xaml file in the Styles folder that it can't parse; I just never expected there to be a file in there that isn't used by the Big Box themes directly. I'm guessing maybe it's used by another control or something, but I'm not sure how without Big Box knowing about it. It should be an easy fix, but I probably won't get it in yet tonight.

This could be because you force repopulated the cache or cleared the cache. I'm not really sure what's going on or what happened, to be honest. There have been zero changes to anything related to the image cache, so I really doubt there's a real problem there. The only thing I can think of is that VLC was upgraded to 3.06 recently; did you upgrade from 9.3 or a 9.4 beta?

@ALIE Hmm. Any chance it could be a fluke? Have you tried rebooting?