ckp Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 In Launchbox, I went to create a custom filter so I could just show my favorite Platforms, which is really cool that you can create custom filters so easily! I LOVE that! I accidentally clicked on the Filter Values: "Title" drop down list selection. Oh boy was that a HUGE mistake as LB has been in its 'not responding' state busy trying to produce a drop list off around 23k items for me! hahaha. I'm going to try to wait it out to see if it ever snaps out of it and comes back to life (it's been like this minutes so far) so I don't have to kill the process and potentially corrupt my LB xml file again. I know it's doing something because one cpu is pegged on launchbox.exe. I suppose special code handling is needed for selections that may be enormous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Oh foo, I hope it's not stuck in some infinite loop and will force me to kill the process...Waiting still... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 ok, i killed the LB process. lucky for me, i did not have to restore a backup copy of lunchbox.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 can't seem to get the filter i want. what i want to do is just show my favorite platforms on the left. all i can get it to do is show all my favorite platforms inside one custom filter name so the left side just has "Favorite Platforms". is it possible to somehow show on the left side of LB and BB only a list of certain platforms? That's what I'm shooting for. I don't want all the games from all the selected platforms to be together, but that is a valid filter to have as well so i wouldn't want to see that go away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Hi @ckp, custom filters are currently a pain point, and to be honest they're probably the worst part of the app right now. I desperately need to revamp them. I'd say the best way to only show certain platforms currently would be to mark all games for non-favorited platforms as "hidden". Then you can change LaunchBox and/or Big Box to hide or show the "hidden" games and the platforms list should update as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Thank you for thinking of an option. Initially my thought was to right click each platform to hide and select hidden, but that wasn't there, so I looked to filters. I kind of wanted easy custom platform lists I could choose based on the players. Like if the kids and their friends play, I would choose a set of platforms better suited to them, hiding games in each platform that don't work very well or have some other issue. If adults/teens play, have platforms with games that older kids or adults like, or just kiddie girlie games, or fighters, or whatever, but I like to keep games separated by platform most of the time. In some cases I may want to just use Favorites for games all in one as well, which I can currently do with LB. I hated Hyperspin because it was so hard for me to do things like this. Even Favorites are horrible in HS. I have no plans to ever go back to HS now that LB and BB are so great. Eventually I'd like to drop Rocklauncher also, but not yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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