List of Desired Features/Enhancements

[shinra358]

Finally in! Had to use a proxy browser to be able to enter the site~ Mr. Jason, you already have seen these in email but I'm putting them here since I am now able to post on the site again: FEEDBACK: 1. Rearrangement of tabs so that they will be in sequential order to: Emulation, Launcher, Other, Additional Apps, Dos, Scumm, and then Notes. 2. Save highlight position in options when pressing [OK]. 3. In the options sections, program is updated when pressing [OK] without closing the options section (when [OK] is pressed, it gets grayed out until an option is changed). 4. Gamepad controls: CIRCLE = cancel, X = accept, TRIANGLE = Show/Remove game details while game is highlighted, SQUARE = show/hide sidebar, L1/R1 = show/flip game box art from front to back pictures, SELECT = toggle nvidia 3D vision. All can be configured in options of course. 5. Game Details panel automatically turns off when next game is highlighted. 6.Scale program's viewing area and game boxes in proportion to the programs window size when using window mode. Alternatively, you could make the box arts auto change into game icons/game banners in place of the box art in window mode only. It would have separate settings from the box art spacings in the options menu. 7. Option in options section to not occupy the taskbar space when in fullscreen. 8. Auto change background for indicated time period. Polls through background pic per . Make a folder for the 'animation' of the transition effect when making the background switch by itself. In this 'animation folder' would be pngs of transparency light to pure untransparent black and back to light transparency. Options for frame time in between will be in options section. When the background changes, this effect will start a few sections before the background switches. When the background changes, the program will display those pics one after the other (creating a simulated fading animation) before switching the background pics making an illusion of animation. Since this program can't play gifs of vids, this is a very good alternative. On the mid frame of the fading effect (black), the pic will change to the next pic so that you won't see it actually change to give that illusion. This 'fading animation' will be on top of the game art background and underneath the game's box art. Users will be able to mod the pngs to make the effect anything they want. Autohotkey doesn't have the ability to play vids or gifs so I do it this way for autohotkey and it can work here as well. 9.Option to close a started app when launched item is closed (process is gone). If app's process has a window, it will close by window only. If app process never had a window, it will force close that app's process. A variable can be set to identify which app has a window or not at its startup. This is so that if a window was closed for the app, it wont close the process too right after because closing the window will do that already. And vice versa as well. 10. Nvidia 3D Vision toggle. Checks for 3D vision system by checking a file in the user's program files folder. nvidia doesn't allow for custom installation so this area will always be the same on everyone's computer. If the file is found, it will use a command line to toggle 3D on or off. Pressing SELECT on the controller will toggle this. '3D' will be between the box art and the title. It will be fully visible if it is activated via SELECT and transparent if it is not activated. The location of this nvidia file on a x64 system is: /Program Files (x86)/Nvidia Corporation/3D Vision/nvstlink.exe The command line/BAT to toggle 3D is: 'CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision vstlink.exe" /enable' to enable 3D. Or 'CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision vstlink.exe" /disable' to disable 3D. This must be done before the game starts, hence why it would be activated on the highlighted game's box art before initiating the game. When the game's process isnt found, if it was activated, the 3D should automatically be deactivated with that command line. All games will share this same setting so you will have to press SELECT everytime before each game launch to activate it. 11. When deleting a game entry, automatically highlight the next game (currently it doesn't and if you move with the controller right after, the list will start at the beginning). If you delete a game entry that is last on the list, it would highlight next the entry right before it. 12. Request for option to use rom names without extension when batch importing. 13. Display of first letter, capitalized, of the highlighted game, centered, at the bottom of the sidebar. This will be usefully when fast scrolling (holding a direction) to find a game alphabetically. 14. Make 2 layers for the game background. Bottom layer will be always there and be the default launchbox background. Have the game background be on a layer above separating it from the default background. Then create a 500ms delay before the game background appears when highlighting a game box (for fast scrolling mode only). Lastly, remove the background instantly when switching a highlighted game box (for fast scrolling mode only). What this will do is eliminate the lag caused by constantly loading game backgrounds when fast scrolling. And when fast scrolling, the default background will always show until you stop on a game. And once stopped on a game, the game background will show and it will increase fast scrolling performance. 15. Divide Sidebar, Alphabet Indicator, 3DVision Indicator (from first feedback set), Sidebar feature placements ~ *See Attachment*

[Jason Carr]

Thanks, shinra; all noted. Can you try something for me? Know how to ping? Can you ping www.launchbox-app.com and tell me the IP address that you get? Also, where do you live? The site is fine for almost everyone but there are still a few people who are having troubles, apparently. I think it's due to DNS propagation issues with certain ISPs/networks, but I'm not positive.

[shinra358]

Yay, your fix from pm worked I can get on site now.

[Jason Carr]

Great.