sylandro

For clarification, I did this in a new theme copied from default.

Hi, I was testing out BigBox's default theme and I noticed that when I am in Platform view's Text list with game details (TextFiltersView.xaml), and enable background video to play, the background transition plays but afterwards the video disappears and the background image is displayed instead. I fiddled around with the xaml but was unable to fix it. I tried to replicate the structure in TextGamesView but the background video still disappears after about one second, which leads me to the impression that something may be hardcoded for this particular view?

I agree on maintaining two separate themes, similar to Grila's Switch theme which comes in two flavors in separate downloads. Seems like the best solution, if maintaining both updated at once isn't too much overhead.

Hi, I'm having a problem when starting ScummVM games. Whenever I start them on Launchbox, they appear to load for one second and then close instantly. I can see a console window being loaded and then it closes, I assume it's trying to load the game and then it outputs some error message and it closes. When I load the games directly from ScummVM or D-Fend Reloaded they load fine, this only happens when I load them from Launchbox. I've made sure that the ScummVM box is ticked, the path to the game and game type are correct, and tried with/without the fullscreen/aspect correction settings. The ScummVM logfile in my AppData folder does not display any relevant information: [2015-09-08 15:02:21] ScummVM 1.7.0 (Jul 12 2014 10:18:50) [2015-09-08 15:02:21] Vorbis FLAC MP3 RGB zLib MPEG2 FluidSynth Theora AAC FreeType2 JPEG PNG [2015-09-08 15:02:21] --- Log opened. I'm not sure if it's a problem on my side or that something was changed on the latest beta, I remember playing ScummVM games correctly some months ago.

I don't really have any suggestions, usually, GUIs need a lot of tweaking and fiddling until they look fine. I don't think the multi-column layout is too important, I think the software is pretty much ready to ship as it is :) By the way I've only tested the features that I use: Rename Titles, Filename Scraper and System Ini Scraper.

@mathflair It works as expected and looks cleaner! I'm really appreciating the Update Sort Title option. The only feedback (very minor) I can think of, is that the GUI could be better arranged so that all checkboxes are not in one column because there is a lot of wasted horizontal space, and that the Select Platforms option is somewhat hidden now. When it was displayed on top of the screen it was easier to notice before I hit the Scrape button.

Yes, it's because I used the SIFT to update the ini with the latest no-intro dat and its xmdb. It changed the title of all games in the ini and added entries for the rest of the regions.

@mathflair The problem is that I have a game with a dash instead of a colon in the latest no-intro inis, and Launchbox has the title with a colon. For example, this is in my ini: [1943 - The Battle of Midway] But on Launchbox it's represented as "1943: The Battle of Midway", so it doesn't update. I think a quick solution would be to replace the dashes in the ini title for a colon on runtime. PS: I see that you've implemented an "import from scraper" tab. Great!

I'm having a hard time finding all my games that have a blank Notes field. It would be great if we could have an extra filter for it, so we could use the (Exists) and (None) categories to find missing metadata. I'm also having a hard time editing multiple profiles on the latest beta. If I recall correctly, I could hold shift and select multiple games, and then I would right click them and edit them all at once, but for some reason I can't anymore. Was this feature dropped?

@mathflair About the SIFT files, I don't think it's neccesary anymore for your application to read these files. One can use the SIFT tool to alter the INIs and rename its game titles to match a specific datfile. That said, I think the INI feature is pretty much complete. I'll let you know if I find any issues. ------- E D I T ----------- I found a small issue: I've discovered that when using the ROM importer, Launchbox automatically changes the " - " strings for ": " (for example, a ROM named "1943 - The Battle for Midway" will be added as "1943: The Battle for Midway". While I think that's a great feature, I think LaunchboxAnnotator should do the same when matching the INI titles to the Launchbox titles. Some of my games are not having metadata added from the ini just because my ini has the " - " in its game title, and it never matches.

This happened to me when I had the Steam addon installed, I didnt realize that the BigBox addon was being installed as an update of it. When I uninstalled the Steam addon I could see the BigBox addon, but I had automatic updates turned on and it got overwritten again by it. Im not sure but I think @syriacn mentioned that he is working on a fix for this on the next version of the addon.

@mathflair Never mind, I restored an old xml backup and started from scratch and now it's working fine. :) So far so good, I'll be gradually importing the rest of my collections and let you know if something comes up.

@mathflair That worked! The ReleaseDate now has the correct format (1991-09-01T00:00:00-05:00). Now I'm getting another Exception, except this time I think it doesn't have anything related to the date: (Input string not in the correct format) System.FormatException: La cadena de entrada no tiene el formato correcto. en System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal) en System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) en LaunchBox.Data.DataItem.LoadFromDataRow(DataRow row) en LaunchBox.Data.DataManager.Load() en LaunchBox.Data.DataManager..ctor(Boolean bare) en LaunchBox.Program.Main(String[] args) I don't have any clue what could be wrong this time... it's very hard to find which is the game with the incorrect value.

I tested it with the attached executable, and I still have parsing problems (I described the problem in the above post). For example, for the game Zombie Nation (USA), my ReleaseDate field has the following value: 1/09/1991 12:00:00 a. m. I have the "replace existing fields" checkbox checked in the application. Perhaps that has something to do?

Hi @mathflair, I tested the new executable and it seems that other dates need parsing as well. I checked the xml and some dates are being saved in the following format: 1/09/1991 12:00:00 a. m. While the expected format is something like this: 1990-01-01T00:00:00-05:00