Read a pdf file (or other format) while playing

[james95t]

Hello everyone,

While I'm playing a game, I'd like to be able to view a file.
Example:
View the game manual during the game.
View a PDF file with the description (or role) of the arcade cabinet buttons during...

and then be able to resume the game.

Is it possible to do this with BigBox?

Thank you in advance for your attention and help.

Jean-Marc

[C-Beats]

Pretty sure you should be able to this via the Pause Menu. I'm not at the computer with my builds on it atm to vet it out but feel pretty confident we added that there.

[AstroBob]

Yep, can confirm manuals can be viewed from a game's pause menu, both within LaunchBox or Big Box. While images themselves can't be viewed from the pause menu, if you add your additional PDFs as additional apps, then from within the pause menu you'll have an option for `additional documents`, which will let you view these in the same view you can view the manual.

[james95t]

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you very much for your replies.
I created my PDF files for my games. I inserted them into the "Manuals" folder.
I chose a pause theme. I access my pause theme with a keystroke and can then view my PDF file from the menu that appears.
Everything works fine with the various games and emulators,
except for Steam games. 
Once the game of steam is launched (under BigBox), I can't open the pause menu and therefore can't view my PDF file.

Do you have a solution?
Thank you again for your help.

Jean-Marc

 

[JoeViking245]

3 hours ago, james95t said:

Once the game of steam is launched (under BigBox), I can't open the pause menu and therefore can't view my PDF file.

Because of how Steam games (internally) launch another application that is the actual game, the LaunchBox pause menu cannot innately be used with Steam (and other applications that 'sub-launch' their games.  ("sub-launch" is not the technical term. But I don't know what is. And it sounded good to me.  )