Jason Carr

Hi JL, I'll add it to my list. Just out of curiosity, though, what is so imperative about minimizing to the system tray?

Hmm, okay. Good find, though. Sounds like I need to alter the logic surrounding hiding and showing the scroll bar. I'll look into it. Thanks.

Hmm, strange. I do get the scrollbar myself, with all of the items. What version of Windows are you running? Do you get the scrollbar at all if you resize the window? Do you have the same issue with any of the other sidebar filter types?

Interesting; email me your LaunchBox.xml file if you can. I'll see if I can reproduce.

Hi Arcade, there is a scrollbar; it should work fine. No, it shouldn't be limited to 33 entries. I have many more than that in my collection, and it's working fine for me. Can you give me any more details as to what you're seeing?

Great, thanks Arcade.

If you put your ROM files somewhere inside your LaunchBox folder, then you can move the entire thing anywhere you want and you won't have to change any paths. That's basically what I meant by portable paths. The import ROM feature does not work to update paths (though that would be a good thing to add).

If you use portable paths (put LaunchBox on the same drive as your files and move LaunchBox with it), then you shouldn't ever have that problem. If you have LaunchBox on a different drive than your ROMs, though, unfortunately that's not possible.

Muny, there's really no good way to handle this yet inside of LaunchBox. However, because it is all stored in a simple XML file, you could use a text editor with search and replace to fix the paths. If you do that, be sure to make a backup and be careful, as it would be easy to mess up the file.

Hi Arcade, I don't fully understand your question, but I would guess that you're asking if you would lose your games when you upgrade to the premium version? The premium version just gives you a License.xml file to stick in your LaunchBox folder, so your current collection, games, and settings, all stay in place.

Hi jh0nny, the (Exists) and (None) filters do have a purpose (they were added by request). (Exists) shows all items that have a value for the selected property (such as developer, publisher, etc.), while (None) shows all items that do not have a value for the selected property. However, I can see an option to disable them. I'll add that to my to do list.

I went ahead and released yesterday (if anyone didn't notice). Looks like there are a few bugs to fix that have been reported already, mostly with configuration. There is already a new beta posted that gets around some localization issues: http://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox-nightlies

Thanks, haniobaid. All good input. I'll review it in more detail later; some of these are already implemented though in 4.0.

Just wanted to note that LaunchBox 4.0, including the premium version, has been released!

Hey Arcade, see this thread here: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/command-line-parameters-arguments It contains configuration settings for most emulators.

Yes, though you might want to turn off "Draw Game Image Borders" under the View menu. But it should work great.

Not entirely understanding you, but LaunchBox should automatically make all paths relative when you browse to files. So for the most part, you shouldn't have to worry about it, so long as you keep LaunchBox and your games all in one place.

No problem, Arcade. Yes, LaunchBox is entirely portable. All the installer does is extract the necessary files to run LaunchBox. There is zero installation required. In fact, the LaunchBox "setup" is only a WinRAR self-extracting EXE.

Ah, yes; basically, Microsoft best-practice says that if you're opening a folder (not a file), you should use the folder browser dialog. If you're opening a file, you should use the (better) file dialog. The problem here is the MS's folder browser dialog sucks. I know what you mean though, many applications hack the file browser dialog to work for folders to get around the limitations of the crappy folder browser dialog. I'll see if I can make that happen.

Good find Wolfereign; I actually noticed that yesterday and fixed it too (the CPU usage). It was endlessly generating images unnecessarily (whoops). Glad to hear everything else is working great for you; I do think we have a stable release here. Unless anyone else chimes in, I plan to move the release date forward a bit. I have pretty much everything ready, so I'm looking to release tomorrow night.

Hi scree, Yes, I have more of a details list view planned, but you're right, it'll be a significant job, so it might not be soon. The date thing has bugged me since the beginning too. Problem is I haven't found a good date editor that supports both years and full dates. I might end up having to build one myself, which of course turns into more of a significant undertaking as well. That said, it bugs me too, so it'd probably be worth it. Thanks, Jason

muny21 said Another thing I would love is the ability to edit the plaforms/emulator without having to import roms. Although I have found a work around, a direct edit button would be nice. As it stands, you can just select the platform you want to edit and select import roms but do no select any rooms. Then you select the emulator in that window pane and edit it that way. Sure, I do need to add an easier way to get to emulators. For what it's worth, you can get to it from the single game Edit dialog as well, but yes, I do need an easier way to edit emulators; that is on my list.

muny21 said Besides that I would love it if you could use a different "Browse for Files Dialog" box. I loathe the one you're using. It's such a pain in the ass to use. You have to scroll through your whole computer every time you need to import anything. The better dialog box is the one that has the left folder view pane, or whatever it's called, with shortcuts to folders on your computer. That way you can just click on a folder with your emulators/roms instead of navigating your whole PC. Hi muny, thanks for the feedback. On the above, I assume you must be talking about the places where I use the Windows folder browser dialog instead of the file browser? I do already use the one you screenshotted above anywhere you have to select a file instead of a folder. Is it the folder browser dialog that's the problem (that would make sense, I know it can be a pain)? Where are you seeing the problem dialog?

I have custom keyboard shortcuts like this planned for the premium version (but won't be implemented for the 4.0 release). When I do those, I'll make sure to add shortcuts to do something like this.

Hi dvds, Great idea; I'll add it to my list. Page Up and Page Down should be easy enough; I'm not sure about the scroll bar thing. Thanks, Jason