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Jason Carr said Thanks all, I will be focusing today on cleaning up the new image organization stuff. I just wrapped up the first stage of custom themes/views so that will be coming out as well in the next beta. I want to fix some of these issues though today before putting the beta out. :) cool, will the XAML source for the current themes/views be provided as templates?

Not sure if the soft keyboard in windows 10 works with XInput / DInput but this is from the .net preview blog.... Windows Presentation Foundation Soft Keyboard Support Soft Keyboard support enables automatic invocation and dismissal of the touch keyboard in WPF applications without disabling WPF stylus/touch support on Windows 10. Prior to 4.6.2, WPF applications do not implicitly support the invocation or dismissal of the touch keyboard without disabling WPF stylus/touch support. This is due to a change in the way the touch keyboard tracks focus in applications starting in Windows 8.

FistyDollars said SentaiBrad said I would like to remind everyone to try and follow the Guidelines as best as possible. I requested the deletion of two image with nudity and someone rejected those. Those need to be accepted. Just had a similar issue when I was going through the arcade flyers for some "Adult" arcade games and flagging anything with nudity for deletion - 0 approvals, 2 rejections so far, and I assume that the deletion will be rejected. I don't personally even agree with the nudity policy, but if it's the policy, I'll do my damnedest to make sure it's enforced; but I can't do that if other mods don't follow the rules. We really need to have the ability to leave comments when requesting deletion of content. I don't think this is a good idea for pre-existing content... It will be a lot of work finding / adding those images back (people might not have a copy) after the parental controls are added. It should only be enforced for new images IMO.

Any new features in this beta to play around with or just under-the-hood stuff? For the coverflow view, think you can put the game title on the left (left aligned) and the platform logo on the right (right aligned) so that its easier to see where you are in the list when quick scrolling? (opposite of how it is now) Also, for the details + coverflow view, I could care less about the developer, publisher, status, etc of the rom. I liked it better when it had the game summary there (that's what I'm looking for when deciding if i want to play the game or not). Just my opinoin.

I bought the lifetime when they had a deal on it, and yes it's worth it.

Jason Carr said Yes, @ALIE, there haven't been any major additions images-wise for the wheels as of yet. I noticed earlier this week that EmuMovies doesn't have any wheel art at all, so the only images that are available currently are coming from the LaunchBox Games Database. The best source for those images is clearly directly from the Hyperspin forums, though; so it's relatively easy to download a package of wheels for a particular system and then dump them in the Clear Logo folder for the platform. That said, very soon I would like to batch import these into the LaunchBox Games Database, so that is coming. ah yea, my bad, thought the wheels were from the emumovies API. hypersync downloads from from hyperbase

Jason actually talked about this on the live stream today and said that LB will have performance issues when being run from a NAS because the image caching wont be local.

SentaiBrad said With these quick updates we're kind of taking the Philosophy from Kodi. Any release that ends in .0 is a feature release with some bug fixes, a .1, .2 or .3 release are bug fix releases almost entirely. It's kind of comforting that, even with Kodi as big as they are, no matter how many Beta's or RC's they do most bugs still get found after the official release, so in that sense are kind of adopting it so that these releases make it to everyone. It's surprising and understandable why most users don't update to Beta's. Also Cid! LOL I love that image. Yea Derek, a good bad thing. xD You should use semantic versioning, it's pretty standard and gives the user some context about how much has changed in the new version: Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes. Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format. http://semver.org/ The current version would be 6.0.2 in this scheme

you already upload box art and logos from games, don't see how this is any different really. (copyright law applies in both cases)

It's the best choice currently IMO and how I was planning on doing it until I found LB. I was considering doing a plex like architecture rather than the kodi style one though. Even if you want to switch to some other UI framework down the road it's relatively easy with the MVVM pattern anyway. At least its not silverlight.

Yea, they spent a lot of time on the .net core and UWP stuff and finally got back to putting some work into WPF in the last few versions of .net. Not much you can do about the obfuscation stuff if you don't want it to be super simple to pirate it.

Jason Carr said @wallmachine I bet I know what's going on. With every new release of Microsoft Windows, MS does a lot to improve the performance of WPF and related graphics on Windows. I've read a lot about it and there are huge differences between the performance of WPF (the graphics engine that Big Box uses) on Windows 7 vs. Windows 8 and Windows 10. So I can't promise anything, but I'm willing to bet that upgrading your OS would make a significant difference there. Otherwise, it seems like your system specs should be decent enough to run everything fairly well. Another potential culprit could be a slow hard drive, so an SSD upgrade might really help too. WPF performance was a major focus in the .net 4.6 versions of the framework. Launchbox is obfuscated which can lead to decreased performance and false positives from antivirus software.

Would be cool if guides for the games could be uploaded (ex nintendo power). https://www.retromags.com/magazines/category/usa/nintendo-power/?sort_col=field_20&sort_order=asc&per_page=24#.V1HmdPkrJhE

Images should be in PNG format to begin with, its a lossless image format. Images should never go from jpeg to png because the file is already lossy at that point.

.net 4.5+ doesn't run on windows XP. Remote desktop and steam streaming is always a possibility.