Jason Carr

You can bind to the IsInGameDetails property.

Ah, I see. That makes sense. Do you need this in the games lists or in the platforms lists? In the platforms lists you can use the SelectedPlatform or ActivePlatform property to determine what it is: if (ActivePlatform is IPlatformCategory) { } else if (ActivePlatform is IPlaylist) { } else { }

If you use the Sort Title field, make sure that every entry is unique. If you use the same entries, LaunchBox will just randomly sort items that are the same. In other words, if you want all consoles under consoles, then the Sort Title field should be "Consoles Nintendo Entertainment System", "Consoles Sega Genesis", etc.

Hmm; that doesn't look like it will be easy to solve. Hey @alec100_94, are you using WPF in your plugin?

As of current, I don't believe we've provided a way to access the translations that are built into LaunchBox. I suspect that most plugins would need new translations anyways, but I can see that being beneficial in some cases. It might be a challenge to make accessible though.

This is a known issue. It seems to work perfectly fine on some systems but not on others, and I have yet to figure out why. It may be a Steam or Steam API issue of some sort.

Alright, so I recognize that the playlists with platforms stuff is confusing, and there's been confusion as to where they should or should not show up. It shouldn't be very difficult to provide another option to specify whether each playlist shows up in platform categories and/or the platforms list, so that's what I'll do. Update coming.

Everything you download from the LaunchBox Games Database is optional. If you want to download a bunch of torrents, all you have to do is place the media in the proper folders, and LaunchBox and Big Box will pick them up. We may add more media options in the future, but this is not planned for the immediate time being.

@CaptainJ It could be caused by incorrect time zone settings; does your Windows time zone match correctly with what it should be? Other than that, I'm guessing maybe it's a firewall issue or something of that nature.

Very cool @Padou; the Big Box custom theme tutorials on YouTube are a good place to start. There's also the LaunchBox\Themes\Documentation.pdf document which should help. I'm sorry about the language barrier though; I don't really have a solution for that for the moment.

Hi bbneo, please email us at support@unbrokensoftware.com and we'll get you squared away.

Beta 3 is out now as well with a fix for the playlists showing up in the platforms view of Big Box; I missed that with the last beta.

Ah, yes. Just noticed that. I'll fix that soon.

What you can do though is right-click on the playlist in the sidebar and edit it. Then you can manually remove games from that list, and it will automatically convert it into a manual playlist. You will lose the auto-populate functionality though.

Ah, I see. Good to know. So apparently the upgrade process is bugged from versions that are that old.

Did you delete the entire Data folder? It's possible that LB was still running in the background when you did it. Make sure that it's not in Task Manager still saving everything when you delete it.

Oh, I misread, one sec.

Ah, I see. Good to know.

@NLS I don't think this is common, but I believe we might have an occasional issue when deleting the very last platform, or deleting all the games in your collection. Sorry for that; it should only come up in that specific situation, and it's on my list of things to address. It should be easy enough to just delete your LaunchBox\Data folder entirely if you want to start over.

@alec100_94 I just put out a new beta with the two latest requests. I'm hoping to put out an official release here soon because of some fixes; let me know if things seem to be good to go for you for now.

Beta 2 is out now with the following: - Improvement: Added a new SelectionChanged SystemEventType for plugins - Fixed: Playlists were showing in the Platforms lists; this was never intended but somehow got changed by mistake a while ago. Playlist should now only show up in the Platform Categories list when marked as such. - Fixed: The PluginHelper.StateManager.GetAllSelectedGames() plugin method was not working properly in LaunchBox - Fixed: When LaunchBox was closed while minimized, the window would be very small on the next startup Assuming this beta goes well, we'll probably put out a new release to fix these few issues in a day or two.

How is it a custom version? I don't know why you wouldn't be able to merge collections by just copying the XML files and such.

So apparently .Next is showing playlists that are included in platform categories in with the platforms list. I don't know how I missed that, but I will get that fixed.

The initializing speech does admittedly hiccup every once in a while for me on my machines as well. That kind of thing is really hard to get right unless I wait until everything is loaded before I play the sound (I don't want to delay loading Big Box just to play the startup sound). I still don't understand why you're seeing performance issues with the controller, but I'm out of ideas, unfortunately.

I honestly don't have any idea why you'd be experiencing hiccups. I don't remember your system specs (I'm sure you shared them at some point), but if it's hitching when videos are loading it could be a hard drive speed issue, or if they're on a network path that could be the issue. I will say that it's not normal to experience hiccups when videos load on a high-performance machine.