Jason Carr

Added this to the to-do list for 7.8 since this does seem to be a common request. Thanks for the additional testing, @Norfair. Unfortunately testing those things on my system still does not reproduce the out of order platforms or categories. At this point, I'm pretty certain that it's happening only on certain machines, because I've tested other collections that cause the problem for other people, and when I load them up on my machines everything is fine. So there's something wacky going on that I haven't been able to pinpoint. It may have something to do with metadata, but that's not the *only* thing it has to do with since it seems isolated to only certain machines. So...sigh. I'm still stuck.

Sorry guys, yes, I will take a look at this soon.

Thank you Claudio; that is something we may consider in the future, but as for now we've chosen to keep all of Big Box part of the premium version.

No problem, @ferrell! Send Kirsten an email at kirsten@unbrokensoftware.com and she can get you a new license.

I'm sorry, I wish we had a good solution for stuff like this. It might be worth calling up your card's bank to make sure it isn't blocking foreign transactions, as that is a common issue.

Hi @ferrell, is it a prepaid card? Unfortunately we've had some trouble with Stripe and non-US prepaid cards in the past. I don't have any transactions to look up in our transaction log, likely because it didn't get that far. Do you have another card you could try?

Beta 7 is out now guys; the new thread is here: Closing this one out.

Beta 7 is out now guys; it fixes a number of bugs from the previous betas. Specifically: - Renaming platforms was causing duplicate platforms and other weirdness - "All" games for platform categories wasn't showing any games - Platform category behavior in the sidebar wasn't showing the right games I'm sure there's more but those are the major fixes. Going forward I'm going to continue to focus on bug fixes, as well as implement the following for playlists: - Auto playlists custom fields - Auto playlists support AND or OR for multi-text fields; possibly come up with new comparison types - Adding games to playlists from within Big Box - A new tab in the playlist add/edit window to display the games in a grid for custom sorting - Custom ordering for playlist items - Auto-populating of certain playlists on imports (such as Capcom Classics, Namco Classics, etc. for the Arcade platform) - Download platform videos support for playlists I'm not sure if all of the above will make the cut, but those are the current plans.

Okay, yeah; I think what happened is that a beta was used to combine before the Spanish translation was completed, so it used the English text, and now, it thinks they're different entries. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution to fix it.

Not for the next official version; we'll have to revisit to figure out how popular of a request that is. Same goes for top level applications.

Hmm, did you change your language setting? This also could have been caused by using the beta before the translations had been completed; not something I had thought about.

Thanks @Norfair; just fixed this for the next beta.

I wish it was that easy to reproduce. Unfortunately that still doesn't reproduce it on my system.

The best way to use the sort title field is to just pretend that you're naming the platform that way. Putting just a number in the field isn't the best way to handle it. What I do for my Nintendo platforms is I use these for the sort titles: Nintendo 1983 (for the NES) Nintendo 1996 (for N64) Etc. That way all Nintendo platforms are under "Nintendo" and are in the order of release date. That way you can leave all the other platforms without a sort title, and they'll still be sorted mostly correctly.

Just fixed this for the next beta, btw.

Something like that. We could tweak the comparison type names for multiple select fields to make them more obvious, too.

Good point Cid! Hopefully I can get custom fields support in there soon.

You can manage playlists using the sidebar. Just choose Playlists at the top and you can view, add, edit, or delete with right-click.

I'm still planning on adding some sort of custom sorting solution for playlists, but I'm not quite sure what it will look like just yet.

It's not likely caused by the .NET framework upgrade since we've been occasionally hearing about this for a while, a few versions back even. It's weird because it seems to pop up every few versions and then disappears, and I have never been able to replicate it. It seems to affect only a very small handful of people, so any ideas you might have about how your system might be different than other people's would be worth considering.

That's not a bad idea. Unfortunately it's very difficult to get that check box list drop down control into the grid (and it was also cause for some of the performance issues in the previous custom filters implementation), so I was trying to avoid using that control. That said, what we could do is support the user entering semi-colon-separated values like they are displayed elsewhere, for the multi-select fields. It'd be more ideal if it was more obvious how to do it, but I'm thinking that might be a decent compromise?

That's interesting; I would not have expected it to work that way lol. That is an interesting use case, but we'll probably have to come back to it at a later date.

There won't be a tool to migrate already-imported collections to playlists, but what we can do to get around that is to just share the playlists after they've been generated for folks with existing arcade collections. Part of the point of the playlists is that they're easily shared, so I can imagine having a new Downloads section for people to share their custom-tailored playlists, and including all the stuff like "Capcom Classics". It'll just be a matter of downloading one and dropping it in your LaunchBox\Data\Playlists folder.

That's a good point on ensuring Adventure AND Action works; I'm not sure what would be best for that, but I'm up for taking ideas. However, the "(1 AND 2) OR (3 AND 4)" logic is more complicated than I intend for the feature to support. I just don't see that as being a common need, and I'd rather keep it easy to use.

Unfortunately that's more complicated for end users than I think is wise to implement for LaunchBox. That interface would cause a whole lot more confusion which I want to avoid. The combination of same-field OR and cross-field AND should cover the vast majority of situations, and I'm doubtful that users are going to run into significant problems with it. Let me know if you have a use case though where that custom operator logic is necessary.