Jason Carr

Hey all, I'm looking into the games database issue. Sadly it looks like the issue may somehow be with the Internet, either with my server provider's host, or with another stop along the way. It doesn't look to be a server issue, so it doesn't look like it's going to be easy to fix. We'll get it fixed though.

Just tested Edge and it seems to be working fine for me, though it looks like I do have to be logged in for it to save.

If it's resetting back to the Invaders theme, either you have some kind of blocking plugin or blocking settings, or your browser isn't working properly. It won't be able to save it if your browser isn't allowing cookies for one reason or another.

We will see updates, but not right away. I have not heard back on any API improvements as of yet.

I will note that screenshot order is important for you guys. It's just never been a priority before, because no one's ever seemed to care. I'll add it to my list.

Per the download issues, I am looking into it. However, in my testing things seem fine right now. I did see some slowdowns last night though.

Makes sense. Not sure when exactly I'll get to it but I'll add plugin access to the extraction stuff to my list.

I can't seem to reproduce either of those issues, so I'm pretty much lost on them both. This is the first time I'm hearing of the expand on single click issue; my best guess on that one is that maybe it's caused by the background processing falling behind, but I'm not really able to follow that in the code either. I have heard about missing screenshots in the sidebar before, but haven't been able to reproduce it. It may just be the file type though; what are the file types (file extensions) of the missing images?

Try capital "M" characters instead of lowercase ones. If I recall correctly, the lowercase "m" is for minutes.

Currently the extracted files are just deleted once the emulator closes. The issue I can see with the file lock approach, is that LaunchBox doesn't necessarily know what file to check the lock of. If you check the lock on the ROM file, depending on the way the emulator is coded, that may or may not work (not every emulator is likely to hold a lock on the ROM file for the entire time that the game is loaded). So you'd need to check the lock on the emulator's EXE file, which would be a guaranteed way to do it, but in the case of Steam, we wouldn't necessarily even know the path to that EXE file. That is an interesting thought that I hadn't considered though.

I might as well keep piece-mailing lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=apngwpf So it DOES exist. But the fact that no one knows about it probably does mean that it's pretty far from a standard. But I'll probably get this implemented eventually.

Come to think of it, I guess it's certainly possible, but we'd have to do the animation ourselves, and use a separate PNG image for each frame. Talk about a pain to create the animated wheels lol.

I get you; we'll see if anyone else ends up bringing that up.

It would be nice if I was aware of a decent animation format (other than Flash) that supports alpha-transparency. The problem with gifs is that they're ugly because there's no alpha-transparency support. I don't believe WPF has support for any video formats with alpha-transparency, and unbelievably I'm not even aware of any formats existing (at least not as a standard). That's kind of baffling, to be honest. But yes, I have thought about that; I just don't currently have a good solution for it. We're definitely not going to be putting Flash in at this point.

Oic. I figured you meant Big Box since Unified Redux is a Big Box theme. It is fairly easy to adjust the height of the side bar items in the XAML; @Lordmonkus even put out a theme to do just that. You can either use his theme or make your own theme and use his tweaks.

This isn't caused by any kind of bug in LaunchBox. If anything, it could be a server issue, but I doubt that as well. It's largely just the nature of the Internet; when you're downloading thousands and thousands of individual files, errors are bound to happen occasionally, and having a ping run in the background really doesn't prove or solve anything. I assume when this happens that errors are reported in the error list? If you can consistently confirm that certain games aren't downloading their media, let me know and I can look into it if I can replicate it. But random connection issues aren't really trackable or fixable.

In the future I'm planning on adding an option to hide auto-generated playlists from the main list of playlists, so when I get that added in, that should fix it. I'll probably add it into an early 9.4 beta. They were already removed from the right-click menu in a 9.3 beta.

If it's a new issue, I'm guessing it's probably somehow caused by the new startup screens. Can you try disabling the startup screens to see if it still happens? In order to fix it I'd also need to know what particular emulators or games are causing the problem.

I'm not following what you mean by the left category menu. Can you explain?

Strange. I'm running Windows 10 Pro as well and I've never had that problem. I'm not sure what might be affecting or causing that on your system. I assume you can alt+tab out of other applications just fine?

Alt+tab should work fine in Big Box, and does in my testing. What version of Windows are you running?

Okay, that makes more sense. So it sounds like it's a setting problem with the Retroarch install, if I'm understanding you correctly. Why not just use the Retroarch install that works?

What do you mean by the sound is bad? Is it stuttering?

My apologies for the delay; I'm just now seeing this thread. I suspect that no one answered it because no one has any idea why you're having sound issues. Honestly, the above makes almost no sense, which is probably why no one responded. Since this is indeed something that no one else has ever reported, I would be willing to bet that the issue you're having has nothing to do with LaunchBox, though anything is certainly possible. We'll need more of an explanation as to what's happening with the sound. Are you using Retroarch both inside and outside of LaunchBox?

If I don't get to it beforehand, I can put it on the next poll. You can use the mousewheel while hovering over it with the mouse. Or, just click on it and use the arrow keys.