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Hi Jason thanks yes custom filters is working the opposite of how i thought it would work. I thought it would work if i added a title say movies that title would go in to the sidebar and be added to the list from the drop down menu:- Complete, Date Added, Date Modified, Developer Favourite, Genre, Platform ect as its own seperate heading. Then i would be able to add the sub categories such as Adventure, Fantasy, Space, Western ect. However no matter how i try in add custom filters i cannot get the categories i want without those categories showing up in other ones on the main page when i click on individual headings in the sidebar such as Complete, Date Added, Date Modified, Developer Favourite, Genre, Platform ect to which i dont want them to show up in, hope this explains it a bit better. Maybe they do but no matter how i try filling in the fields to custom filters i cannot achieve this.

Hi i dont know if this is possible but i would like to add categories to the side bar i tried custom filters but cant get that to work no matter what i do i seem to end up with everything showing under the custom filter i created even though i leave all fields clear except add Title at top. What i would like to add to sidebar are entries for Movie's. T.V. Series, Music and Media Player's. That way i could add new categories under each like you can with Platform ie:- Arcade, Atari, NES etc. So for example Movies ie:- Adventure, War, Western etc. Music:- Pop, Jazz, Newage etc. That way when id click on Movies nothing else would show up except the sub categories that i set up for that, same for Music, Media Player and so forth. If anyone knows if this can be done would be great if they could do a tutorial on how to do it, if not would it be possible Jason if you could add those categories. Thanks in advance.

Thanks DOS76 for the info especially the comics one and the controls. What i want to do with Launchbox is at present i am using my computer as a guinea pig machine to sort out how to only have one launcher opening up immediately after windows boots (which i have) of which Launchbox is the one i chose without having to many programmes for different purposes ie: plex, xbmc, primarily for games books music and movies and set them up for my 9 year old daughter. When i have everything set up i intend to build a kind of a portable mini arcade machine (have ideas for that already) she can use, but not be able to see the underlying operating system and tinker with that, but easy enough for me to get at to install or delete stuff as need arises. Launchbox at present is filling all these needs nicely as i invision starting to build machine in a month to 2 months time for her. The comics and books is a great idea as well, looked online for places to download comics, books for her but its a mine field as there doesnt seem to be much in the way for girls any suggestions DOS76 would be appreciated on this as well.

For those that would like Launchbox to open up immediately after windows these are the steps:- 1 Go into your Launchbox folder and right click on Launchbox.exe and click on Create Shortcut. 2 Right click on the shortcut you created and click on Cut, close your launchbox folder and go to your homescreen. 3 Click on START, All Programmes and scroll down to you STARTUP folder. 4 Right click on STARTUP and click open. 5 Now right click in the folder and right click then click on paste. The next time you open Windows a few seconds later Launchbox will open. If you want to make it look like Launchbox has opened up as soon as Windows has loaded here is a little cheat until Launchbox has launched. Open Launchbox and let it boot up. Click on Print Scrn key on your keyboard and then close Launchbox. Now open up Paint and click on Paste, Then click on Save As, and save it as either jpg or png in your pictures folder. Go to your saved jpg or png and right click on it and set it as Desktop Background. Now go to your Desktop and delete all shortcuts and everything that is there. Lastly we right click on Start, then Properties, and click on the Taskbar tab and check the box Auto-hide the taskbar. Now your desktop looks like launchbox, so the next time you start windows you see Launchbox instead of windows and Launchbox itself will open up shortly. to get back to the desktop just press Alt+F4 and your back to windows, and to see your taskbar just put your mouse pointer where your taskbar was and it will open up. This is an easier way than using shell commands and also allows you to move freely into the windows environment if you need to update files etc.

Hi some of you probably know this already but i just figured it out, so i decided to share this with people who might not know. If you want to play movies or music or any programme word etc in Launchbox this is what you do- 1 Set up a default media player (i use potplayer because its full screen mode lets me watch my ripped movies without any borders totally the full size of my monitor). 2 Now set up a folder called shortcuts in you documents or launchbox folder. 3 Right click on a movie and click create shortcut. 4 Place this shortcut in your shortcut folder. 5 Open Launchbox 6 Go to bottom menu bar and click on add 7 When the add screen comes up on the right hand side in platform, type a name for your platform ie:-Movies or Music or what ever you like 8 In application path click on browse and go to where you placed your shortcut folder double click on shortcut folder and then double click on the shortcut you want to add 9 Click on OK, you now have placed your movie or music or programme into launchbox 10 If you want to add art to your movie etc just right click on the entry as you would a game and add a jpg or png you have downloaded or created for you movie ect I tried this for my media player my film folders which i have now placed in launchbox and it works flawlessly. Addendum:- Was playing around with potplayer and was able to set the autokey in it to close the player using the escape button. Also if you set you shortcuts to folders its easy to close them by just using alt+f4. So i now have a shortcut to my dvd player in Launchbox as well(potplayer), make sure you have AUTOPLAY on your DVD DRIVE turned off, then when you click on your player in Launchbox pressing ctrl+d will start the film thats in your drive or the film that your choose to play. I am sure there are similar methods for mapping keyboard shortcuts in what ever player you use. Further Addendum:- I was playing around with potplayer further and found how to make dvd's autoplay in the dvd drive. Right click on your link for your player (as you can see from my screenshot i have mine called A. CD/DVD Drive), click on edit and in the Application Command-Line Parametre type /DVD. Once you have a dvd in your dvd drive and click on your link for your media player (potplayer) it will proceed to play your dvd immediately, and the bonus is i have my media player (potplayer) closing also with the close key, as well as being able to fast forward or rewind by using the arrow keys. There is no need to put this command line parametre in to shortcuts you have for films you have ripped if you have a default player set for playing films that are already on your computer as they will launch the minute you click on the shortcut. I hope i havnt made this tutorial too hard to understand. A BIG BIG MASSIVE THANKS TO JASON CARR for developing this frontend the only thing i need now is a way to have launchbox open when windows starts as i can place shortcuts to internet, programmes and what ever into Launchbox and make it the defacto htpc and computer hub the only thing im short of now is getting a small wireless keyboard with touchpad if anyone knows a really good make please advise.

Hi Jason, yes that would be fine with the games would do , as i have them inside the emulator's folders under genesis covers master system covers, x32 covers etc, and a way to automatically change their default size to a uniform size which we could just type in ie:- (as i have done width 500 pixels length 700 pixels) if that is at all possible. thanks duckeenie for pointing me to the command lines but as it is there is no expalnation as to what those command lines do so can be confusing as to whether we want to use them or not.

Hi Jason just joined up. is there anyway that all artwork could be downloaded into folders like Covers, Screenshots, Banners, Logos etc instead of in the image folder with individual folders for each game with their respected folders inside. my reason for asking is that i like to keep all my box art for all the different platforms dos sega nintendo etc all the same. at the moment the only way i could do this was to right click on each game in launchbox and save as game name in to folders on my desktop ie coverart banners and the like. when i have all my games done i then use irfanview to batch convert them all to jpg and save them in their category folder in each emulator. finally i then delete the games coverart and install new one which i converted to 500Width by 700Length (pixels) the end result is a nice uniform layout all through launchbox. thanks for a wonderful program Launchbox. martin ps: it would be great if the members here who are expert (im not one) at importing games into dos, scummvm, epscxe and all the other emulators would make tutorials on importing roms, and also explain what default command line parametres to use and what those command lines are for. thanks again