Jason Carr

Sorry @portachking, I don't think I saw that come through, but I get so many emails that it's admittedly difficult to keep up. Please email kirsten@unbrokensoftware.com and she can get you the code.

Thanks @bosspatrone for cluing me into that. I still have it on my plate to tackle some games database bugs here ASAP (ha, ASAP). That will help me pinpoint the problem.

Hi @nikeymikey, thanks for this report. I believe the Rocket Launcher team will need to modify their plugin for LaunchBox to include support for Additional Applications. Perhaps you can report it to them on their forums?

Hey guys, this is planned for eventually. It will probably make it into the next poll.

And beta 11 is out.

Alright guys, beta 11 is finally out. Playlists now have custom sorting options out the wazoo, for top lists and such. This will now allow you to change the way things are sorted in Big Box as well, if only for playlists. Also new for this release is populating the arcade playlists. There's an option to create them on MAME imports, as well as do it for existing collections from the Tools menu (Create Missing Arcade/MAME Playlists). This was requested quite a bit, so I just went ahead and built an automatic method in for existing collection as well. I still have not been able to fix the lousy sidebar sorting bugs, so that is next on my plate. I need to go back and review, but I believe most everything new is done for this release, so I'll be focusing on bugs going forward. Thanks all, let me know how testing goes.

Good point here @Pacman56. We definitely need a good solution for this in general, including on imports. I need to give it some more thought, but I'm up for hearing ideas. Just putting a bandaid on it though isn't going to be good enough.

I'm doubtful of this, but if that's true, it could really help me pinpoint it. Can you explain why you think they're related, @SpaceMidget75?

The problem with that method is it doesn't allow users to search for X AND (Y OR Z) or similar, unless I'm missing something. I did consider doing that, but that doesn't cut it (it's worse than what we have now).

Not following this. Can you explain?

This should be fixed in the next beta.

Yeah, being a developer I tend to want to lean towards allowing all possibilities, but I still think that those screenshots from the link are gonna be way too much of a barrier to entry for average LaunchBox users. So I don't consider that a good solution. The good news here is that Developer and Publisher share a unique connection between those two fields, in that companies can be either a developer, a publisher, or both, and that is the reason why the developer/publisher thing is unique. I'm sure we could come up with other complicated scenarios, but again, I don't think it would be smart to make it that complicated.

Quick update guys, sorry I've been distant for the last couple of days. I'm knee-deep in development on the final playlist pieces: sorting options and automatic playlists for arcade divisions. I have both working currently but I still need to go back through and clean some things up and work on performance yet a bit. I should have a new beta out for you guys some time tomorrow. I haven't been through the thread yet because I'm still focusing on development, but I should be able to catch up here tomorrow as well. Thanks all!

Beta 10 is out now guys; Big Box now supports adding and removing games from playlists via the game details screen. I'm also really hoping (once again) that I've fixed the side bar sorting bug, so let me know. Next I'm going to get back to the arcade playlists.

I'd still appreciate it if you could, because that will really help me pinpoint the issue. You can check or set the key mappings easily enough under Options > Key Mappings. It's just arrow keys, Enter, and Escape by default for navigation.

Out of curiosity, do you use a game controller? If so, does it still happen if you do everything with the keyboard?

Ah, not currently. Though that is another interesting use case. As previously discussed, I won't be adding a bunch of complicated AND or OR logic to it in an effort to keep it easy to use. What we *could* do to address this particular use case is add a field for "Developer or Publisher".

Thanks @Wattoo; integrated for the next beta.

Ah, yeah, that's worth ticketing. Good find. I don't think I've run into the same thing for my ScummVM games, but we'll need to get it fixed.

Yes, as stated previously I just fixed this for the next beta.

Yeah, I think I'm convinced.

The codec pack shouldn't make any difference at all when using VLC, because it doesn't use the system's codecs. Upgrading video drivers is always a good idea.

The IDs in the titles are coming from arranging by games database ID. We do have a bug in the latest release I think where the titles aren't always updating when they should be and are being cached for too long (such as when you change the arrange by or hide or show versions). You can get around it by refreshing all images, but that's of course not ideal.

This particular issue is probably caused by "Army Men 2" thinking it matches the existing "Army Men" image. I'll look into this; thanks @Norfair.

So it's back to the drawing board on the sorting issue, sigh. I'll see what I can do for the next beta.