Total Games Count in Playlist??

[shro2016]

In the themes it is possible to return the total games count via activeplatform.totalgamecount - is there a command that can be used to return the same result for the active playlist?

[eatkinola]

I have a custom control to do this. I don't think there is another way but could be wrong.

[shro2016]

7 hours ago, eatkinola said:

I have a custom control to do this. I don't think there is another way but could be wrong.

Thanks @eatkinola would you mind providing me the custom control to do this and some instruction on using it please?

[eatkinola]

3 hours ago, shro2016 said:

Thanks @eatkinola would you mind providing me the custom control to do this and some instruction on using it please?

Sure, I can do that. It's actually something I'm developing now, so I need to tune up a few more things before I give it to you. As a heads up, though, this is how it's used:

<!-- THIS GOES IN THE VIEW HEADER TO REFERENCE THE CONTROL LIBRARY -->
xmlns:aoc="clr-namespace:Ao.Bigbox.Controls;assembly=Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_2"

<!-- THIS CONTROL LATCHES ONTO THE LB API AND GETS THE INFORMATION -->
<aop:SelectionSnoop x:Name="SelectionSnoop" />

<!-- PULL INFO FROM THE SNOOP CONTROL AS NEEDED -->
<Viewbox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="4" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
    <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource EVOTbEmph}">
        <TextBlock.Text>
            <MultiBinding StringFormat="{}Completed {0} of {1} Games">
                <Binding ElementName="SelectionSnoop" Path="ActiveSelectionGameListInfo.GamesCompleted" />
                <Binding ElementName="SelectionSnoop" Path="ActiveSelectionGameListInfo.GamesAvailable" />
            </MultiBinding>
        </TextBlock.Text>
    </TextBlock>
</Viewbox>

The SelectionSnoop control basically exposes data from the LaunchBox API to the user interface. Behind the scenes, it also determines other data not directly exposed by the API, e.g., number of games completed, average star rating for a collection of games, etc.

[shro2016]

Thanks @eatkinola I think this will be a big help to a lot of people making themes as this covers the main areas that are not currently accessible via the API

[eatkinola]

@shro2016 FYI posted a new theme called Minimal-EVO which uses that plugin feature I mentioned above. You can grab the dlls from the plugin folder of the Minimal-EVO download. Please note you'll need to include all three dlls for it to work. Please see TextFiltersView for an example how it's used. Eventually I might get around to updating the docs and dll for AO Bigbox Customs in the plugins download section. For now, here is the info provided by the SelectionSnoop control:

• ActiveGame
• ActivePlatform
• ActivePlatformCategory
• ActivePlaylist
• ActiveFilterType
• ActiveFilterValue
• ActionSelectionGameListInfo -- for the active category, platform, playlist, or filter

The game list info object contains the following:

• GamesAvailable (count)
• GamesCompleted (count)
• GamePlayedLast (IGame object)
• GamePlayedMost (IGame object)
• StarRatingsAvg (double)
• StarRatingsNum (int: number of games w/ratings)
• DateLongestAgo (oldest game in the list)

[shro2016]

That’s great thanks @eatkinola I will download the theme this evening and build into my themes.

thansk again

[eatkinola]

 

3 hours ago, shro2016 said:

I will download the theme this evening

I removed the theme from the downloads section while I tune it up a bit. I'll pm the files you need.