Jason Carr

I see. It's apparently the Manual sort that's not working properly, though everything else is. Thanks for the details.

What is your playlist's sort by setting set to? How is it being sorted when you view it? Are you using the boxes view or the list view?

Alright, 8.4-beta-5 is out: I've fixed a number of things as noted in the above thread. Here's what's left: Custom spacing options (with # of text lines too) Controller support Music playback Sidebar resizing randomly Box customization options (colors, placement, visibility, etc.) Mouse cursor popup options Occasional multi-select issues (games are not unselected on rare occasions)

Alright folks, beta 5 is out. I focused mostly on .Next bugfixes today. These items have been fixed/implemented: Jump to new game after game is added Adding to playlist requiring a restart Defaulting to system language in some cases/places (let me know if anyone is still seeing this anywhere) Download Metadata and Media wizard buttons cut off Here's what we have left for .Next: Custom spacing options (with # of text lines too) Controller support Music playback Sidebar resizing randomly Box customization options (colors, placement, visibility, etc.) Mouse cursor popup options Occasional multi-select issues (games are not unselected on rare occasions)

Okay, I'll do some more testing on lower-end hardware to see if there's anything I can do to improve performance there.

I see. Remind me what kind of hardware you're running? How long are you waiting for things to load up? Per the titles causing the images to shrink, that is by design and I recognize that it can be an issue when viewing super small boxes. That said, you could certainly adjust the font to compensate. I am planning on providing some more options there though soon.

Oic, it gets really confusing when talking about LaunchBox vs. LaunchBox.Next in the official release vs. the betas lol. Any issues in regular LaunchBox should really be brought up in another thread; also, regular LaunchBox hasn't changed in quite a while so we probably won't be changing much over there at all, since .Next will be replacing it soon. Now that that's covered, what were you bringing up that applies to .Next in the latest betas? Can you be specific?

Are you referring to the official release or the betas?

Yes, this is something I am considering for the future. Certainly possible, and probably likely, considering the trouble we've been through with the Steam API lately. Did you test it out with games that for certain had a Steam ID connected to them?

In all honesty, this makes zero sense lol. What betas are you referring to specifically? I think you must just be comparing the situation of images having been already cached vs. images that still need cached.

This has honestly been beaten to death. I have options coming to make the boxes more similar to the old LaunchBox, yes. But once again, the old LaunchBox had the exact same issue with different image sizes; the main difference is the fact that regular LaunchBox does not have the surrounding box, and the boxes were centered. Regardless, I will be adding these options in soon.

Is this only in .Next? Yeah, we would probably need a new volume control option for it, since people will likely want it at a separate volume anyways. I would consider this a new feature request. The box image slider doesn't really make it easy to get to an exact particular size, not to mention the cache folder would grow to take up a ridiculous amount of space if we kept all the previous sizes. Currently, the cache is emptied and rebuilt as needed when the size of the boxes is changed. However, the cache will keep all the various image types as they are populated (so it won't need to re-cache when switching between boxes and 3D boxes, for example).

Just chiming in to say that 3D boxes are still something I would like to do at some point.

I see; it looks like this is specific to the right-click Show Details menu option. I was testing with View > Game Details. I'll get it fixed.

Okay, still can't seem to replicate it. Do you start LaunchBox with game details open or closed? Can you go through specific steps of everything you do?

Beta 4 is out now with a handful of the items knocked out: Here's what's left: Custom spacing options (with # of text lines too) Controller support Music playback Sidebar resizing randomly Box customization options (colors, placement, visibility, etc.) Mouse cursor popup options Jump to new game after game is added Adding to playlist requiring a restart? Occasional multi-select issues (games are not unselected on rare occasions) Defaulting to system language in some cases/places?

Oddly I haven't been able to replicate this. When pressing Ctrl+T to show or hide the details panel, the same game remains selected for me, and the proper details show. Is anyone able to replicate this?

Alright, beta 4 is out with fixes for a couple of issues as well as the following: Improvement: Show Versions has been implemented in LaunchBox.Next Improvement: The LaunchBox.Next list view now retains its sorting on refresh and between filters Improvement: "Use Random Color Theme On Startup" has been implemented in LaunchBox.Next Fixed: Playlists are now sorted properly via the playlist's sort settings in LaunchBox.Next Getting there...

This was definitely caused by images with different DPIs, as predicted. I have it fixed for the next beta. Edit: For clarity, if you open up the images in Photoshop, and select "Print Size" from the View menu, you'll notice that some images show as much smaller than others, due to the differing DPIs. I think this is just caused by different people's image editors or whatever. WPF takes the DPI into account when it displays the images, so I had to override it by setting the size of the image to match the pixel width of the image.

Thanks all, I have the Big Box issue fixed for the next beta.

Yeah, it's also complicated by the fact that the LaunchBox logo works as the menu when the side bar is hidden. Well that makes no sense at all lol. I'll look into it.

Does LaunchBox.Next exit? Does it close the process?

Hmm, I'm guessing it's the format/DPI of the images, ugh. Not sure if that's gonna be an easy thing to fix or not.

Yeah, I feel you, though what I don't understand is that it seems to me when you initially download a No Intro romset, for example, you already know that you have a full set. If you've been piecemailing things, then you might as well just start over and grab a full set, if you're concerned about missing games.

Hey all, beta 3 is out now with the following: Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the default background settings properly Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now resets to the default background when changing to a new platform/filter Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now works with clear logo backgrounds Fixed: LaunchBox.Next exiting issues while switching to Big Box See the LaunchBox.Next missing features thread for details on what's left for .Next: