neil9000 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, Jason Carr said: I am very aware of that. so if we could just point them somewhere? like to a specific thread. with how to fix it in the time being? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, neil9000 said: so if we could just point them somewhere? like to a specific thread. with how to fix it in the time being? If you could just please help them update to the beta releases, that's the best option. If someone wants to create a forum post on how to update to beta release step-by-step, that might make the transition a bit smoother. There's a video tutorial on YouTube on how to do it, but it's outdated since we added background updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Beta 4 is out now guys with a revamped Welcome screen that uses CEF and is more integrated with our website. Oooh, now that is sexy. I know I and many others probably turn off the welcome screens but if you are planning (or this new one can already do it) to have news and update info in it that would be awesome. Something like a "Hey here's a notice of an issue and temporary fix" for example would be really awesome. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I know you said you don't plan on a lobby system for launchbox users, but oh man that would be cool! See who's on launchbox right now and play something with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Well we do have a discord channel for people to do this with already. I know it's not the same thing but it does exist and can serve the same purpose. Maybe Jason can somehow integrate discord into Launchbox since it does work in the web browser as well as the stand alone client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 28 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: Oooh, now that is sexy. I know I and many others probably turn off the welcome screens but if you are planning (or this new one can already do it) to have news and update info in it that would be awesome. Something like a "Hey here's a notice of am issue and temporary fix" for example would be really awesome. Agreed. It does have the Twitter feed on it, but we could certainly do something more prominent. Though, yes, I don't want to force the welcome screen to show up on every startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 16 minutes ago, damageinc86 said: I know you said you don't plan on a lobby system for launchbox users, but oh man that would be cool! See who's on launchbox right now and play something with them! Indeed, that would be amazing. It is something I would love to do at some point, assuming the actual netplay features work out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGriffon Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Jason Carr said: Remember that there are settings available to adjust how many community ratings are required before a game is considered rated. That is the reason why they're displayed under Not Rated. @Jason Carr - Thanks, I actually did not know that. I can't seem to find the settings for that. Can you tell me where to find them? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Typhon Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 @Jason Carr I've identified a problem with the PDF reader. If I recall correctly RocketLauncher had the same problem. It's with manuals that have the first page as a single page, then all subsequent pages as double pages. The problem is, the PDF reader chooses a zoom level by default that is appropriate only for the first page, then all the double pages are too small. Attempting to zoom in automatically takes you back to page 1, and it's very difficult to gauge whether or not you've got the zoom right or not. That's the 2nd problem - zooming in takes you back to the beginning of the manual. Here's a screenshot, this is typical for N64 game manuals from Emumovies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHN30011887 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Just wanted to say holy s**t launchbox starts up so much quicker with 8.0 beta 4, great job @Jason Carr, green loading bar is like just less than a quarter full then boom its all loaded up, so happy with this Hope this can be looked into at some point please, sorry if i should attach this here - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGriffon Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 3 hours ago, Lordmonkus said: Ah, thank you Lordmonkus. I must have blown right past it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 It's easy to miss since @Jason Carr kinda put it in an odd spot under Search and not a sub category with a name that made sense, I had to look for a few seconds to find it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 4:32 PM, Typhon said: @Jason Carr I've identified a problem with the PDF reader. If I recall correctly RocketLauncher had the same problem. It's with manuals that have the first page as a single page, then all subsequent pages as double pages. The problem is, the PDF reader chooses a zoom level by default that is appropriate only for the first page, then all the double pages are too small. Attempting to zoom in automatically takes you back to page 1, and it's very difficult to gauge whether or not you've got the zoom right or not. That's the 2nd problem - zooming in takes you back to the beginning of the manual. Here's a screenshot, this is typical for N64 game manuals from Emumovies. Unfortunately those issues would be difficult/impossible to solve without replacing the PDF viewer with a different solution other than Chrome, as it has its limitations. I don't have that much flexibility over the PDFs. On 1/31/2018 at 6:10 PM, JOHN30011887 said: Just wanted to say holy s**t launchbox starts up so much quicker with 8.0 beta 4, great job @Jason Carr, green loading bar is like just less than a quarter full then boom its all loaded up, so happy with this Hope this can be looked into at some point please, sorry if i should attach this here - Thanks John, I do still have that on my radar. I will get to it eventually, though there are other features that are more requested, so it hasn't been a high priority (yet). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Beta 5 is out now guys, with a hopeful fix for some bugs that have been reported here: Also, I've finally integrated the Traditional Chinese translation from @gamehacker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 @kmoney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 @neil9000 Ah gotcha...just woke up and didnt read the rest of the forum yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 1 minute ago, kmoney said: @neil9000 Ah gotcha...just woke up and didnt read the rest of the forum yet yeah, I forsee a lot of these today it happens no matter what version you are running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 I fixed that Retro Achievements bug for the next beta, which should be out later today. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Alright, I went ahead and put out a beta early today, including: - Fixed: Retro Achievements were causing errors to pop up in LaunchBox if the retroachievements.org website went down - Fixed: Some Big Box theme combinations resulted in issues saving different views for each platform - New Big Box PDF reader key and button mappings for Zoom In and Zoom Out (no longer mapped to Page Up and Page Down, new defaults are the + and - keys) - Attempting to fix newly-introduced Big Box performance issues from here: - New Greek translation (only half-way finished by @sxetikos) - New option in Big Box to use built-in PDF reader for additional apps PDFs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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