launchbox The Ultimate Magazine Experience

[xevious1974]

How do you handle these platforms in the new game discovery centre? Do you hide in Big Box simply?

 

[Whatscheiser]

Man that PDF flip software is pretty pricey. There is also CDisplayEx. http://www.cdisplayex.com/desktop/

It's not as flashy, but its easy to use, can display magazines with a similar view and its free.

 

Aside from that I really dig this idea. I didn't need another thing to collect but now I kind of want to do this. lol

[JAKAMY]

I converted all exodos magazines to flipbook thanks to your post. KUDOS!!! 🤗

I put the .exe in the same folder as their pdf and edited the xml to replace all .pdf to .exe

my take on How to exit the generated Fullscreen flipbook since the generated .exe in Fullscreen using ctrl w:
My template 

Launchbox.flbxmt

In batch I choose the in folder and out, fhd, auto page cut, jpg, exe, full screen, no hyperlink, searchable, new engine, import toc

1st create a bogus emu entry running a batch file. (for esc key watch to run alt f4)

(Normally it takes 2 seconds to start the flipbook but I am running 4 VM instance of the flipbook app converting batch folders as it doesn't used much of the cpu each)

runFlipbook.bat with hide and other command line and assign the associated platforms names:

Bogus.bat

content:
@echo off
echo starting flipbook program.
start /B /wait %1 %2
echo flipbook programs is executed successfully
cmd /k

Add running script to watch for esc press:

content (script Fixed! screenshot version kept autohk watching for esc key after flip was closed):

#IfWinActive
Esc::
Send, ^w
ExitApp
return

 

now in big box all manuals/magazine are beautiful 😉

Cheers

Edited October 17 by JAKAMY
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