Jason Carr
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Thank you Cammel, I will look into that right away.
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Hi @viking, sadly I'm having major issues getting the video alignment stuff to work properly. I've been working with Cid as well to fix this and it's been a royal pain. For now, unfortunately the VerticalAlignment and HorizontalAlignment properties won't work properly on the video elements. I'm hoping to fix this soon.
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Wow, very cool @keltoigael! Indeed, I will bump this up on the priority list. It has been requested quite a bit lately.
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Thanks guys. @paulmichel21 I'm sorry, can you explain the always loading the clear logo issue? Where are you seeing that? Are you thinking it's not loading it from the cache? @jaythompson It's people who use custom fields that I'm referring to, not custom platforms. Do you use custom fields? @SentaiBrad That's new to me; my experience is that VLC seems to always be faster. When and where did you see that?
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Hi @joel, I'll look to see if we have any bugs there that need fixed. Most people don't choose to use only EmuMovies, so I guess it might be a bit of new territory, though it should be working fine. Will review.
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Also guys, since we jumped to a new page I'd appreciate if everyone can go back and read my post about the last beta; looking for some feedback.
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@salyangel Do you mean Windows is visible in between launching games with Rocket Launcher? I know Rocket Launcher isn't perfect with that stuff; it would be best to put that discussion in another thread though because this thread is for beta testing LaunchBox and Big Box only. @paulmichel21 I just tested and confirmed that the AutoHotkey stuff is working properly for the Escape event script above; I'm not sure what might be happening on your system. What happens if you put in this script instead? $Esc:: { MsgBox, TEST } Do you get a message box popping up when you press Escape?
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Thank you @paulmichel21; I will look into that. Beta 10 is out now guys with a few fixes: - The VLC NULL reference issue was still happening because I completely missed what was causing the problem; I really hope this one is finally fixed now lol. This was happening for people who were using music without videos or who were using WMP for the videos. - Platform-specific image types were not being remembered/used properly in LaunchBox when using the new platform category filter type - The issue with using the same platform name ("Arcade") as platform category (also "Arcade") has been fixed; the filters should now work properly in that case Also, some questions for you guys. Does anyone who uses custom fields extensively want to do some performance testing with these latest changes? Or would you mind sharing your Data folder with me? I need to know if the recent performance fixes did anything to resolve performance issues with custom fields. Finally, what are you guys' thoughts on getting rid of the Windows Media Player video playback engine option? Now that VLC is fixed and is not causing problems it seems to be the best choice by far (performance is better and there's a bug or two that still exists with WMP that is not an issue with VLC). Does anyone know of any good reasons to keep WMP? Is anyone still choosing to use WMP? If WMP is worse in all aspects and isn't really providing any added value, then it's not worth my efforts to keep working with it. Thanks all.
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I see @MrBobC. Do you see your desktop/the Windows background on your marquee monitor or is it a black screen as expected? Are you using the default theme?
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@spycat I'm having trouble replicating the sorting issue for some reason. Would you be willing to zip up your Data folder and send it to me at jason@unbrokensoftware.com?
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Open - Notes scraping reads corrupted text - Issue #263
Jason Carr replied to Eirulan's topic in Troubleshooting
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Open - Notes scraping reads corrupted text - Issue #263
Jason Carr replied to Eirulan's topic in Troubleshooting
Ah, good to know @Zombeaver. Looks like we may have another issue for the amazing @Vlansix to look at. -
Yeah, agreed @kmoney. We will need to allow for multiple video categories eventually. As it currently stands it is by design that LaunchBox would never use any overridden images or videos from the Big Box themes, as those are only for Big Box. I'll take a look at that video issue as well. @salyangel Thank you for that; very much appreciated.
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You can indeed currently make custom themes for the marquees. Assuming no one in the community steps up, I should come up with a custom theme for that. It should be relatively easy to tweak the XAML to work properly for all monitor configurations. @MrBobC I'm looking back at your posts and I'm a bit confused. Do you get anything to show up on your marquee screen at all?
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New beta is out guys that fixes a bunch of bugs: - Fixed a major performance issue in LaunchBox when arranging by certain fields (anything that duplicates games in the list was causing the slowdown; was originated with the XML split) - Fixed a bug that was pausing the videos when prioritizing music over video audio - Fixed an error that occurred if background music was enabled but the LaunchBox\Music\Background folder did not exist - Fixed a VLC-related null reference error (somewhat widespread due to the new music features) - Background music folder now parses recursively all nested folders Hopefully some good steps in the right direction. Still some bugs to fix, but we'll get there. Let me know if you guys are still seeing any video or music issues with this beta.
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Thank you guys; all noted. I understand the "remembering the last game" request now. @spycat I am aware of that issue but unfortunately I haven't fixed it yet. It's on my list. @Elber Thank you; I believe that issue is specific to Arcade. It's happening because of having both a platform category and a platform itself that is called Arcade. I'll take a look at that soon. @paulmichel21 Can you explain that?
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That is really odd as "._BackgroundView.xaml" is not even a file that is used. "BackgroundView.xaml", yes, but not "._BackgroundView.xaml". I'm royally confused here. In thinking about this more; it could be that some sort of other program is putting these garbage files as hidden files in the folder. For some reason I recognize them as such, though I can't remember what app would do that. It's possible that since Big Box is searching for all files in the Views folder, it's choking on system or hidden files like that. Try enabling viewing system and hidden files in Explorer and see if they show up.
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@MrBobC I can see how that's confusing but the Arcade - Marquee folder is only for arcade games so that could be the issue if you're trying to do it for a non-arcade platform. Try using Box - Front instead.
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@popy Wow, didn't expect you to jump on that straight away, but yeah, that'll be a good experience for you.
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@spycat I will look into that sorting issue with the categories. @Lmagnus87 Probably not worth adding that functionality into LaunchBox. That's more of an issue with your router configuration. @salyangel Where are you seeing it not return back to the right place in the wheel? @bundangdon You can add as many categories as you want; just edit them for each of the platforms using Tools > Manage Platforms.
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@CriticalCid @Maddoc1007 Just put out a new beta that should hopefully fix that Visual Studio issue. Thanks for bearing with me on that one. Also, Cid, good to know about LaunchBox; I haven't implemented the new music features for LaunchBox yet but that is planned. Makes sense about the categories in Big Box; I think I'm in agreement with you there Cid as well.
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@andyco47 @salyangel Could be because images are caching in the background, especially if the list is huge. It should get faster over time if that's the case. Otherwise, try switching to VLC for the video playback engine to see if that helps.
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Yes, the LaunchBox scraper is internal from the LaunchBox Games Database. There's also Wikipedia but of course it doesn't work nearly as well. Unfortunately adding more scrapers would require internal development unless someone wanted to just access the XML files directly.
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Alright, new beta is out guys that supports platform categories (groups) in LaunchBox only (so far): In theory, any recognized platforms should automatically have these new categories attached once the new beta is loaded up. You can customize the categories to be whatever you want by editing the platforms under Tools > Manage Platforms. You'll have to select "Platform Category" from the drop down on the top of the side bar to pull them up. I would say this is a start to the interface for nested filters in LaunchBox as well. It's a ways off, but in theory eventually we'll be able to use the same style of interface to filter by both Platform and Genre (for example), or even Platform Manufacture and Platform. I also cleaned up navigating with the keyboard or a controller in the sidebar to be a lot smoother so that it doesn't immediately try and repopulate every time you move to a new selection. Let me know how it's working for you guys. Now we just need to figure out how to do this in Big Box as well...
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@CriticalCid The music does support navigation using the new key and controller bindings for Next Track and Previous Track. However, there is no pause, currently. Great idea for a button combo to show/hide the OSD. I'll add that to my list. Same for subfolders; that should probably be just a recursive search.
