Retrofrogg

Still getting issues with thumbnails in the carousel not generating/displaying properly:

So how much of that 103.9TB does Launchbox take up? We need more info!

Found a possible bug - sometimes, when selecting a platform, the platform video suddenly increases in size to outside the confines of the video play area, the result being that you can only see a part of the zoomed in video: If I go to a different platform, then back to the original one, it fixes:

Personally I would add a (USA, Europe) ROM to both the USA platform and the Europe platform, and then scrape one with USA art and the other with Europe art.

I just deleted a couple of earlier posts and have grouped my feedback here, to tidy up the thread. The below points/bugs all relate to the new platform details pane: I don't seem able to add videos to playlists - I can add them in the edit playlist window, but when I click OK, the video doesn't appear where it should. It's still there if I go back into the edit window. I can add videos to platforms no problem. I don't seem able to delete some platform images, either when deleting from the carousel or when deleting from the edit platform window. The images just remain. This doesn't apply to all platform images, just some. I noticed it when trying to delete the banners. These same banners would also apply to the playlist's parent platform - I don't know if that is part of the issue. Being able to add platform/playlist/category images is great. Could the image types be expanded to include box, controller, manual and advert? Or alternatively allow the user to add custom image types? Having custom data fields for platforms, just like we have for games, would be very useful. And relating to the platform tree: When using the keyboard to navigate the platform tree, the selected parent node and all child nodes are grouped together in a box, as per the screenshot below. This is great as it makes things much clearer and easier to navigate. This doesn't seem to happen when selecting with the mouse however; could we have it appear when using the mouse as well?

@Drybonz I have been having this issue with the normal game details view; I mentioned it some months ago. I think Faeran attempted a fix, but it's still happening. Looks like the same issue is affecting the platform details view.

Yes, I always edit the code to fix this problem too. I don't know why it isn't set that way by default? Who would want to see those black boxes?

This is awesome! Any chance it can show the platform video too?

@Beatlemaniac19 check the latest LB community poll -

I thought I'd start up a thread in relation to this exciting poll item so that the feature can be further discussed, as there doesn't seem to be a thread already. The poll item is #5 - Platform Details within the Game Details panel - (If this feature were to win, LaunchBox would display platform metadata and media when a platform is selected, and a game is not). This is going to be a great addition to Launchbox and for me is the best of the current poll items. Currently the vast majority of the focus in Launchbox is on the games, with the platforms only being represented by their name in the platform tree. In BigBox we can see the platform details with most themes, but so far Launchbox has not allowed this; to see the platform details in Launchbox currently you would have to edit the platform. This new feature would allow platforms to be browsed properly, not just games. Given that the plan seems to be to display both metadata and media, hopefully the platform videos and images can be shown, just like game videos are. It could be themed to allow some great ways of displaying the platform videos and associated platform information. Great for the collectors and info geeks amongst us. Hopefully it would lead to some expansion of the information that could be entered for platforms. For example, as well as an image of the platform itself, it would be great to have images of the controllers, the original box, etc. In terms of where this information will appear, the poll item suggests that it would appear in the Game Details panel. This would certainly seem the easiest way to implement it - but given that the Game Details panel tends to be a relatively thin panel at the side of the screen, it would seem preferable to display the platform detail in the main window - perhaps without any separate panel being present.

Good idea to sort platforms by console/platform generation. Is it possible to add custom metadata for platforms, like you can for games? Then you could add the "generation" field to each platform and populate it. It would be great if Launchbox could then sort platforms when in platform category view by generation (without us having to do it manually).