Jason Carr

What I'm wondering is if the window will eventually come up if you just let it wait and don't let Windows kill it. The problem is loading up the legacy portion of the Options window; because of the old Windows Forms code, it takes longer to load and can't be "threaded", which means it's a pain to deal with. So instead of killing it, just wait and let it sit there and let me know if it ever comes up.

Cool, I'll take a look. I'm hoping to have it done soon, but in my latest discussions with Circo there's been some confusion and I still have some significant work to do because I have to go back and change the original EmuMovies client API code and recompile the DLL. I don't think it will make it into the next release, but it is a possibility. Good to hear.

Yeah, good point. Hopefully that'll be a quick add. The aspect ratio is exactly what needs changed to remove that gap.

This is caused by some sort of a stray controller. Try unchecking "Use All Controllers" or unplugging any controllers that might be causing the issue. Yeah, there's not really any possibility that .Next would have a bug launching Retroarch at this point, unless it's a bug that's been there in OG LaunchBox for a long time. Primarily because the code that launches games hasn't changed. You can change the aspect ratio setting to allow for more space.

Yeah, it's a more advanced feature anyways, so hopefully people can figure it out by experimentation if they don't understand the verbiage. Setting the aspect ratio at least on a per-platform basis is planned for a future release. Just the result of spacing settings that make the boxes run out of room for the selection bar. This is normal behavior for both OG and .Next. If there's no platform selected, it will just resume using whatever the last image group was. It's been this way for a long time, though I agree that there are probably better ways to do it. For the future, I'm thinking of reverting to the default image group instead.

This is still on plate to attempt to resolve. It may be a while yet though, unfortunately.

@SteveM I'm sorry to hear about the trouble. Those errors aren't any I've really seen before, so I'm guessing it's something like a corrupted .NET installation, or bad drivers, or something odd like that. So sorry that I don't have any better solution. If you're up for it, you could try uninstalling and reinstalling the .NET framework and DirectX, or even Windows if that's an option. I'm guessing that would fix it, but unfortunately I can't be certain. If you'd rather have a refund, I'm more than happy to help with that as well. It looks to be either a Microsoft bug or a corrupt installation though, so there's probably not a lot I can do.

Beta 13 is out now guys with lots of fixes to the custom spacing options for LaunchBox.Next, which should make things more straightforward and obvious, as well as look a bit cleaner. Because of the changes, your LaunchBox.Next custom spacing options will be reset when upgrading to this beta. @Zombeaver Boxes should be centered vertically now when "Align Text Vertically" is enabled, and it should no longer mess up the spacing if you don't have any text visible.

Since we're so close to getting rid of OG LaunchBox, I think I'm gonna just leave it the same and once OG LaunchBox is replaced then we'll be good to go (as opposed to having to switch it and then switch it back). I'm tempted to do something to push users on the upcoming official release to use Next instead of OG though. Not sure what we'll do, but I'm thinking about it.

Same issue as Zombeaver above. However, I'm fixing some things and making this more obvious for the next beta.

Thanks; this has been fixed for the next beta.

Sure, this can be done by just making a backup copy of your Data folder. I understand that you'd like the process to be easier though. I'll consider that a feature request.

Alright, I'll do some more testing on Windows 7 to see if there's any chance I can replicate.

Good to hear that it's resolved. I wonder if maybe it was related to the playlists. What happens if you move your playlists over from the old install to the new one? It's also possible that it was caused by a corrupt media item, but in that case it's still something I need to fix. If you have any way to further pinpoint the problem, I would really appreciate it.

It's probably the Align Text Vertically option that is causing the issue for you.

I just implemented the last missing feature and it's out in the beta 12 release (custom spacing options). We'll be putting out the next official release very soon, I hope.

I'm sorry @Colorman3605, but I'm still not following.

Beta 12 is out now with the last feature on the list finally implemented: custom spacing options. So I believe all that is left is weird one-off bugs that are happening on certain systems, like the above. Hopefully we can get those figured out soon.

No, none of that is normal or expected. It seems that rare machines are having occasional video/rendering issues with the app, but I have yet to be able to replicate anything. It's not going to be a fun problem to solve, but it's on my plate. In the mean time, try updating video drivers and make sure you have all the latest Windows updates. Just another crappy, over-zealous anti-virus program crying wolf, unfortunately. I go to great lengths to make sure that official releases don't trigger false alarms, but I can't do that for every beta release.

Yes, making a copy of your data folder will back up all settings and metadata. If you're looking to change media though, you'll need to back up your media folders as well.

Beta 11 is out now with game hover icons implemented, so all that is left is the custom spacing options, which are next. I also fixed the Add Game issue above.

Beta 11 is out now with the following: Game hover icons have now been implemented in LaunchBox.Next Fixed LaunchBox.Next not scrolling properly to the new game when adding This completes LaunchBox.Next, sans for the promised custom spacing options. Those are next. I'll be looking to resolve the outstanding issues we're discussing here as well before the next official release.

I'm not quite following, unfortunately. Can you rephrase?

Can you post a screenshot of this happening? The spacing should increase/decrease as you drag the slider, and then all the images should be refreshing once you release the slider. Is the refresh not happening?

I haven't been able to replicate this; let me know if you or anyone else has figured out a way to consistently replicate it. Just fixed this for the next beta. I'll do some more testing with image updates, though I still haven't been able to replicate any of it, so I'm somewhat at a loss. The only thing I can think of currently is that maybe something is interfering with the deletions or changes and causing the process to error out. Can you check to see if the images are actually deleted when it occurs on a delete?