Jason Carr

Feel free to help out @Cauptain. Just make sure to read all the instructions at the beginning of this topic as there are a few gotchas. Thank you much.

I think there is probably some new stuff @Kondorito, so if possible it would be good to review.

Ctrl+F has already been implemented, but thanks for the reminder on Show Version.

This actually doesn't exist in the original LaunchBox, but I agree that we need it, so I'll probably get something like that in there relatively soon. LaunchBox doesn't resize boxes any differently than .Next; the only difference is that it centers them vertically above the text, so it's not so obvious how they differ in size. We might provide some similar options since I believe it's been a relatively common request.

Correct.

Yes, if I understand what you're saying correctly, you do have to download metadata in order to download media.

Just put out beta 14 that seems to fix that error. I'm not sure exactly what happened to be honest, but I think it was somehow just an issue with the compile or deploy. You should be able to update from regular LaunchBox if LaunchBox.Next isn't working. Sorry for the trouble there guys.

Odd. Is anyone able to use beta 13 successfully?

@CliveBarker @AFaustini @Wattoo @Opak @dukeemu @cyanjiang @Bardock @MajKSA@gamehacker

It's that time again guys; as always, I am so very grateful for your help. I think the translation updates should be fairly light this time around. All should be updated in the translation downloads; I'm hoping to put out the official 8.3 release on Tuesday or Wednesday. Thank you all very much.

Sorry I never followed up @Kondorito, but I did get these into a beta a while back. Not sure if you had already figured that out or not.

Putting out beta 13 guys for the translators. Sorry for the double-punch.

Makes sense @Lordmonkus. Just to clarify, this thread is strictly for features that are in the original LaunchBox that are missing from LaunchBox.Next. If you're heartbroken because something doesn't match the original LaunchBox (like Monkus is above), we will consider tackling that as well. However, let's keep new feature and configuration requests at bay for the moment (stuff that's not in the original LaunchBox).

Hello all! As of LaunchBox 8.4-beta-11, the following features are all that we know is left to implement in LaunchBox.Next in order to be feature-complete with the original LaunchBox: Custom spacing options (with # of text lines too) These features will definitely be implemented before LaunchBox is replaced by LaunchBox.Next. As of 7/18/2018 and 8.4-beta-12, every feature on the list has been implemented! However, if you are aware of additional missing features, please let us know in this thread.

Alright, beta 12 is out now with the following implemented in LaunchBox.Next: Drag and drop Performance improvements for arrow key navigation Fixed an update error message for poor connections Ctrl+F now works to jump to the search box Double-click now only works to launch games if you actually double-click on a game (instead of the scrollbar for example) Fixed another potential VLC error Fixed some threading bugs Fixed an issue with no boxes being displayed when the form is resized (scrolling issue) Fixed arrow key navigation not always displaying the full box item Custom fonts These are the only remaining items before I'm considering LaunchBox.Next to be feature-complete with LaunchBox: Pressing a letter key to jump to items Custom spacing options Music playback Controllers & controller automation I've actually already started on controllers & controller automation, but it's very extensive so it's not included in this beta. I may end up putting out the next official release before all of the above four features get implemented, depending on how quickly I can get them done. Regardless, the end is in sight.

It was just a rare, random error. I believe I had seen it once before myself as well.

I just implemented Ctrl+F for the next beta. If the side bar is hidden, it just re-shows it for now.

That's an odd one. Do you run your LaunchBox installation on multiple machines and sync between them? There's a setting in Settings.xml called SideBarSize, if you make that smaller, that should resolve the issue, but I don't know how it would have gotten large in the first place. What is that value set to in the XML?

Beta 11 is out now with the following completed in LaunchBox.Next: Hiding and showing list view columns and column ordering Reduced side bar minimum width Combining and expanding games Arrange by custom fields Hopeful fix for @Drybonz's "The root Visual of a VisualTarget cannot have a parent." error Fixed missing screenshots in game details Fixed disabling auto-backups not working (still have no idea why you'd ever want to turn this off, not recommended) Arrange by now affects the detail line values

I'm sorry to hear about the trouble. If you would, please create a separate topic and we can help troubleshoot this. I doubt this is related to LaunchBox.Next since the data backend is exactly the same. You may still have good backups of your XML files in the Backups folder; I'll be interested to know how long it's been since it happened and what you were doing at the time. As always, though, this is why backups are important, especially when using beta releases.

I may take a look at that here at some point, though it's also fairly low priority. Last I checked though it was fairly well optimized (though I do see some overlapping links in the header). What are you running into?

Thanks Manc, this has not been implemented yet. It may be implemented a bit differently, but we'll do something similar at least.

Hmm. I'm still lost here. I guess the next thing to try would be to back up your LaunchBox\Themes folder and then delete it completely (or just move it somewhere else). Big Box will then regenerate the Default theme when you start it up again, which will rule out any weirdness with theme code. If you're still getting it at that point, then obviously it's not theme-specific. The next thing to try is to completely get rid of any plugins to see if they're the cause.

That certainly would be great to have. Unfortunately though it will probably be a long while before we'd be able to tackle something like that, since there's so many other more popular requests out there (such as a LaunchBox Android app, for example).

I'm hoping this is fixed for everyone. Sorry for the delay; let me know if anyone is still experiencing any moderation issues.