Jason Carr Posted October 17, 2015 Author Share Posted October 17, 2015 Thanks @scree. That's the bug I'm hoping I've fixed in the beta I just put out. Can you test? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 17, 2015 Author Share Posted October 17, 2015 Just put out one more beta. Hopefully this one fixes all of the issues. I'll be back on late tonight to put out the official if all is clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Hi Jason. Testing beta 1 returned this error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I've tested out beta 2 with the emphasis on the right sidebar and it seems to be ok now. I can't get the errors I got with the official and the beta 1 releases to reappear. Off to bed now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbanzo Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Thanks for list view! It's still a bit problematic though. LB doesn't seem to know which game is selected when hitting the Edit button or using the right-click menu. Once you have it working properly, I hope to see a few "essential" features to go along with it: 1. Box art display in side panel when in list view 2. Ability to choose which columns to display 3. Find-as-you-type is now more important than ever! 4. A button to toggle list/thumbnails would be helpful Also, I'm not clear on how to use the "versions" feature? I'm truly impressed at how quickly LB is being developed - thanks! EDIT - Trying to use the "Add Filters" window causes LB to crash (I'm running the latest beta). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmagnus87 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Simple suggestion Why we still have a File menu?. This menu only has the exit command Maybe just put a Exit button or add some option to file menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 garbanzo said Thanks for list view! It's still a bit problematic though. LB doesn't seem to know which game is selected when hitting the Edit button or using the right-click menu. Once you have it working properly, I hope to see a few "essential" features to go along with it: 1. Box art display in side panel when in list view 2. Ability to choose which columns to display 3. Find-as-you-type is now more important than ever! 4. A button to toggle list/thumbnails would be helpful Also, I'm not clear on how to use the "versions" feature? I'm truly impressed at how quickly LB is being developed - thanks! EDIT - Trying to use the "Add Filters" window causes LB to crash (I'm running the latest beta). Good suggestions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Hi garbanzo. What I've found with List View is that you first need to left-click to select (highlight) a game entry and then right-clicking it will allow the menu options to work ok with the exception of Show Details ( the popup details box) which appears to be disabled in List View. The right sidebar view works fine, and oddly enough even updates just by right-clicking a new game unlike the menu. The ability to hide unwanted fields and to sort fields is in the pipeline. Not too sure about the others. If you have text entered in a game's Version field and Show Versions is enabled, then the version text will show after the game's title. This works for LaunchBox Mode boxart and list views as well as in the game details popup and right sidebar. The feature is in the pipeline for BigBox Mode. I'm using 5.4 Official and have no issues so far with adding Custom Filters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Thank you guys for this discussion, all good feedback. @garbanzo, I've noted all those items and added them to the list. Per the crash with custom filters, I'm guessing it's just taking a while to populate the drop downs. There are a number of issues with custom filters that I really need to address, so I'll be reviewing that soon. @Lmagnus87, thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately the goal is to maintain consistency across typical Windows applications, so it's important that the Exit item remains under the File menu, awkward or not. Thanks for the clarifications @scree. I didn't know about the issues with right-clicking and selections in the list view; it sounds like this only happens with game details hover or when the side bar is closed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Yes Jason, the issue is with the right-click popup menu when in List View. Right-clicking on a game entry in List View only highlights the entry, it does not actually select it, so the popup menu box options are for the wrong game. The wrong game will either be the first game in the Platform or the last actually selected game (via a left-click). The status of the right sidebar has no bearing on this issue. If visible, the right sidebar will update correctly whether an entry is left or right-clicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Okay, thanks; I'll take a look. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmagnus87 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Jason Carr said @Lmagnus87, thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately the goal is to maintain consistency across typical Windows applications, so it's important that the Exit item remains under the File menu, awkward or not. I understand it but maybe Game and File menu can be one (merge them). Eventually a "game" is a "file" What do you think about to add a "quick bar" for access other apps than games/movies/music? For example Control Panel, a Browser or maybe dosbox with out a game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriven Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I added an "Applications" custom filter to do something similar. It only has Chrome right now, but I plan on adding more applications very soon. It works well for me, this way... I'm just going to move most of the application installs into the LaunchBox file structure to make them portable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 24, 2015 Author Share Posted October 24, 2015 @LMagnus87, the quick bar isn't a bad idea, but ultimately I'd like to add a more flexible interface for applications at some point. Sooner or later I will probably be adding functionality for other types of media, including applications. New beta is out that addresses a number of bugs and makes some important improvements: - Improvement: Added some additional safety checks to help prevent cases of XML file corruption - Improvement: Editing and removing games is now pretty much instantaneous regardless of how large your collection is - Fixed: When populating games with large collections LaunchBox would sometimes behave like it wasn't responding - Fixed: Right-clicking in list view wasn't properly updating the selection - Fixed: The favorite button in the game details wasn't working I'd like to put out another new official release sooner rather than later to get these out there, as some of them are a pretty big deal. I'm thinking I'll probably put out the official some time this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I just got 5.5 official. Many thanks Jason on your quick bug fixes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 5.6-beta-1 is out: - New Feature: MAME ROMs can now be filtered on import to skip clones, prefer certain regions, and/or skip hacks, prototypes, or bootleg games - Fixed: Big Box option to turn off sorting favorited items first wasn't working in some situations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Jason you are seriously the best! Any chance that includes non-working ROMs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 It actually does. You can skip "unplayable" games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0gg1e Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 How does one join the beta? Is it a premium feature? Having the ability to filter mame roms on import would be a huge time saver right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 Hey @h0gg1e, just a matter of checking the box to update to betas in the Options screen. Under updates or something like that. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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