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I'm not 100% sure what you mean here. What are you wanting to do in the XML?
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Beta 4 is out now with the following: - Fixed the null reference error when adding a new platform - Fixed playlists not sorting properly in Big Box - Fixed a bug where Big Box was taking a long time to exit (staying open in Task Manager) when Allow Sleep is enabled in the Big Box options - Fixed various bugs that were causing platforms and playlists to show up both in the root and in their respective platform categories (and various other related issues). When migrating from the old platform category system on update, platforms and playlists without a platform category should now be placed only in the root, while platforms and playlists with a platform category should show up only under their respective categories. Basically, things should look as they did before on updating. Anyone who has a backup of their data before upgrading to the betas and wants to test this, it would be appreciated. I am currently taking a short hiatus from new features for a bit to focus on performance improvements and bug fixes, both related to these new changes and bugs that exist but that are rare (and that I haven't been able to replicate), such as the controller performance issues that a handful of people are experiencing.
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Hence why I think maybe we need to restrict it, to reduce that confusion. Categories should be used anywhere you need a parent category that won't directly contain any games. There's no point in using a playlist for a "Regions" node, because all it will be doing is hosting playlists, and won't contain any games directly in itself. Unfortunately, there's not really a good way to switch it from a playlist to a platform category currently. I don't think this will be a big issue once we reduce the confusion, but it might be. What you can do right now is just delete that "Regions" playlist and then add a new "Regions" platform category to the same spot. The child playlists should all be thrown into the root, and then you can move them back into the new platform category. Seems like that could use some work though.
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Thank you @mdreffet.
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Okay, after looking at your data @Dan I see what's going on. This is an interesting thing to think about though. The issue is that the "Regions" item is a playlist instead of a platform category. Since that playlist contains no games, it is showing 0 for the count, instead of the number of nested items underneath it. If you change it to be a platform category instead, it should fix the issue. However, that is certainly an area of potential confusion for folks. I'm wondering if there's ever any reason to nest things under playlists? If we restrict that it might help to prevent some potential confusion. Thoughts, anyone? I know that confusion will be significantly reduced already, now that we've updated the side bar right click menu so that you have to select a platform, playlist, or category when you add a new item. I think part of the problem here is that it was confusing what you were adding in previous betas. But I still think we might be able to reduce confusion further by only allowing things to be nested underneath platforms or categories; I can't think of any specific reasons why people would need to nest things under playlists.
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Okay, though if we have a bug with adding playlists to platforms I still need to get it fixed. If you can replicate, let me know. Then you can PM me your data and I can look into what's going on.
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I think the Rocket Launcher plugin for LaunchBox needs modified to support the playlists. I haven't done any development on that Rocket Launcher plugin (it was done by the Rocket Launcher guys). I'd be happy to help, but I probably can't dive into their code on my own.
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I'll look into this.
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This has been fixed for the next beta.
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I'm working on this issue for the next beta (platforms showing up in two different places by default, or not showing up in the correct places by default).
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Sorry for this; that's not by design. I'll look into why they're showing up by default in both locations. Depending on your collection, platforms should migrate to one place or the other when you upgrade, but not both. I'll look into it.
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Can you explain exactly the BB video lag issue? Exactly where is it lagging? Feel free to PM me your data as well, and I can dive into that particular area to troubleshoot. It might be difficult without your media though. I don't think I changed anything to improve LB performance for beta 3, other than fix some bugs, so maybe there's a bug in there somewhere that is causing the performance issues.
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I believe the Clean Up Images process should remove those stray folders. Let me know if not. I plan to add an option to do the same for videos and other media types in the future.
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Nested names will be displayed when in the nested platform category view, but the unique name will be displayed in other views. I assume that's what you're seeing? Unless you're in the nested platform categories view, you otherwise can't tell what it is without the unique name.
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Hi Dan, do I have your data? I thought I did but I'm not seeing it in my PMs. Can you zip up and PM me your LaunchBox\Data folder? I'll look into the 0 counts. It's not supposed to be counted twice with the new betas, but depending we may have to revert on that if it proves to be a performance issue.
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Thanks; this error has been fixed for the next beta.
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Hi @deliyuerek85, using your data that you sent me on September 24th, I am seeing games in all of those date-based playlists with beta 3: Are you sure something didn't change in your collection or the playlists to filter them out? Otherwise, maybe it's a culture/date issue that I need to address. I am able to replicate the playlists not sorting correctly issue, so I will get that fixed.
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If there are playlists listed under a platform, it should show the playlists (and not any games) when you open up the platform (assuming you're in Platform Category view in Big Box). Is there more than one playlist under that platform, or only one? We may have an issue yet when there's only one sub-item, though I thought that was resolved. Also, what theme are you running?
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Thank you @mviars; this has been fixed for the next beta.
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Thank you guys. We have a Lost your license? page here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/premium/lost-license You can put in your email address there and it will re-send your license key email. It appears that someone was putting in random emails there for some reason. The good news is that the emails are from us and are safe. I'm still researching to see if we can prevent something like that in the future, but there's no major concern here as far as I can tell.
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Aero Islands Out Now for Android and Windows 10
Jason Carr replied to Jason Carr's topic in News and Updates
Thank you Fisty! Great to hear. I should check out Galcon Fusion; I haven't seen it. -
Aero Islands Out Now for Android and Windows 10
Jason Carr replied to Jason Carr's topic in News and Updates
It's currently mouse/touchscreen, but I may add controller support in the future. -
So my nights and weekends for the past few months have been absorbed by this: Aero Islands is out now for Android and Windows 10, and will be coming to iOS and the regular Windows desktop shortly. I also plan to release it for Mac and Linux eventually. Here's the description on the Play store: It's been really fun to develop, but I must admit that it was way more involved than I ever expected. It feels really good to finally get it released. Android Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unbrokensoftware.aeroislands Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PP9G5B6K32K
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I suppose it could be a glitch in the MAME audit. That's all I can figure. But yeah, if it runs, it runs.