bakito Wrote:yes i did,the weirdest part is that if i just launch dolphin without playing with my 360 pad and come back to xbmc it just run fine but if i use it when i quit dolphin xbmc is not responding ( must click on it to re-focus) so for now i attribute "left click" on my remote control but well...it's not "elegant" ( by the way i seem to have the same problem with pcsx2...)
so for now I'll try to add a "left click function" to the end of my autoit script so i automatically regain control of xbmc but...well i understand nothing in the documentation and i don't know if i even could do that with autoit...
and i still wonder why the batch script don't work it seem pretty easy but

anyway thanks for your replies angelscry!

bakito Wrote:ho by the way it was you who made the autoit script for pcsx2 in the first place and i couldn't remember it, so thank you for that!!!

" il faut rendre à César ce qui est à César"

couldn't i just add an argument after "run ....xbmc.exe" so it is above the other windows? when i'm testing i just noticed that xbmc windows appear behind other open windows on my desk...could i make it open in the front?

like : Run ( '"H:\Interface\xbmc\XBMC.exe"' "in the front" ) ( yeah i know it's silly but i do not code

thank you for your time!

st graveyard Wrote:Hey Angel,

I have a question. I added a launcher for my genesis game collection. I linked fanart and thumbs to all the files in the launcher.
Now, I created a new directory with other (better) fanart in it. I have edited the launcher to point the fanart to the new directory.
Now I would like to update all my content, meaning, I want the new fanart to be linked to the files. But I can't manage to do this. I pressed the 'add items' button and did a automatic scan, but it did not result in new fanart.

So my question is, is there a way to accomplish this, without having to remove again the whole launcher and start from scratch with this particular launcher?

Thanks,
Grave

bakito Wrote:thanks a lot for your answers!!!
it works!! it finally works!! sniff


i had to add a line "winwait" for the winactivate to work but now it's perfect!!!

here is the script for those who wants to play dolphin without xbmc in the back to save ressources...


HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")

If $CmdLine[0] == 1 Then
ProcessClose ( "XBMC.exe" )
Run ( '"H:\Interface\dolphin 2\Dolphin.exe" /e "' & $CmdLine[1] & '"', "H:\Interface\dolphin 2\" )
While 1
Sleep(100)
WEnd
EndIf

Func Terminate()
ProcessClose ( "Dolphin.exe" )
Run ( '"H:\Interface\xbmc\XBMC.exe"' )
WinWait ( "XBMC" )
WinActivate ( "XBMC" )
Exit 0

EndFunc

thanks again angerlscry!

benlen10 Wrote:I am having a very irritating problem with some of my emulators. When I try to run a game through advanced launcher I getting errors on about half of the emulators about direct3d. Others just freeze .When I launch the game directly from the emulator outside of xbmc they run fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

• First method is to activate the "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen" option that is present into XBMC system settings.
  
• Second method, if it is possible, it is to try to use a different video rendering (OpenGL, etc...) for the emulator.
  
• If all these methods are not working, the ultimate way to do is to close XBMC when starting the emulator and restart XBMC avec emulator close. This can be done by creating and using a .bat script : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6
  

st graveyard Wrote:Angel, I've noticed that adding the game library in ALA/XBMC also enlarges the XBMC folder in the user dir on the C drive. I was wondering, is there a way to clean this up? I know there is an plugin available to clean up the thumbs for movies and music, but is there also a way to clean up this dir of all the things added by ALA?
My XBMC folder is already 2.5gigs and growing because I add an emu, then find out it is not ok, remove it, add it again ... Is there a solution?

Angelscry Wrote:When you use Advanced Launcher data are effectively stored into the user directory and are managed by Advanced Launcher and XBMC.

Only things that Advanced Launcher directly save into the user directory is game info into the xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/launchers.xml file and temporary images (scrapped using thumbnails or images scrapper) into its cache directory : xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/cache. This cache is normally cleaned after use.

All the other images, as for movies and music thumbnails are managed by XBMC. Thumbnails are stored into xbmc/userdata/thumbnails subdirectories and path to these thumbnails are stored into xbmc/userdata/Database/Addons.db file. And it is these images that take most of drive place.

The problem is that XBMC save movies, music and addons images (thumbnails and fanart) into same directories. So it is not easy to found and remove them. What is the plugin you use to clean up the thumbs for movies and music? Maybe it will be possible to modify it to also clean thumbs from addons.

st graveyard Wrote:Thank you for all this information Angel, really nice to learn about the inner workings of XBMC, because I know that this is gonna be a problem later on, as my XBMC dir is now 2.5 gigs

The plugin used is this one : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=96097

This seems to be pretty effective for most people, I still need to play a bit with it as for me, it only removes about 185 megs of images.

I think this plugin, or something like this, should be added to the standard XBMC, as this really is a problem in the program.

Using this plugin also for ALA should be very welcome addition I think. If you find it interesting, do have a look, who knows ...

Cheers,
Grave

filigran Wrote:Having some issues here recently. I have removed both the addon_data files and the addon itself, but the problem persists: after creating a launcher and adding roms, I cannot enter the launcher to see the roms. It does so the first time, after adding them, and the launcher.xml file is created with the contents in there. But, after backing out to the launchers screen again, trying to enter it does nothing. I see this in the log:

Code:

03:09:32 T:139754185844672 M:5420367872   DEBUG: OnKey: return (f00d) pressed, action is Select
03:09:32 T:139754185844672 M:5420367872   DEBUG: RunScriptWithParams - calling plugin Advanced Launcher('plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/','-1','?53e9718b17b809e9b1f5827a35129c85')
03:09:32 T:139754185844672 M:5420367872    INFO: initializing python engine.
03:09:32 T:139754185844672 M:5420367872   DEBUG: new python thread created. id=4
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872   DEBUG: Thread XBPyThread start, auto delete: 0
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872   DEBUG: Python thread: start processing
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872   DEBUG: Process - The source file to load is /home/htpc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/addon.py
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872   DEBUG: Process - Setting the Python path to [a long path sequence, snip]
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872   DEBUG: Process - Entering source directory /home/htpc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420367872   DEBUG: Instantiating addon using automatically obtained id of "plugin.program.advanced.launcher" dependent on version 1.0 of the xbmc.python api
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420232704   DEBUG: unable to load /home/htpc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/language/Swedish/strings.xml: Failed to open file at line 0
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728  NOTICE: Launcher: found 2 launchers
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728  NOTICE: 53e9718b17b809e9b1f5827a35129c85
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728  NOTICE: Launcher: 53e9718b17b809e9b1f5827a35129c85 : found 77 roms
[b]03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728   ERROR:  AddItem - called with an invalid handle.
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728   ERROR: Previous line repeats 76 times.
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728   ERROR:  EndOfDirectory - called with an invalid handle.[/b]
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728    INFO: Scriptresult: Success
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728    INFO: Python script stopped
03:09:32 T:139753722730240 M:5420105728   DEBUG: Thread Python Thread 139753722730240 terminating
03:09:32 T:139754185844672 M:5420232704   DEBUG: waiting for python thread 4 to stop
03:09:32 T:139754185844672 M:5420232704   DEBUG: python thread 4 destructed

full log here: http://pastebin.com/Tq8MWP3p

Angelscry Wrote:Yes I know, XBMC cache is not a feature really easy to deal with. Each time you change an image using Advanced Launcher, Advanced Launcher need to update the XBMC cache, to display the new selected image.

Now problems effectively come with images that are not used anymore. And because XBMC cache all the movie, music and addon images into the same folders, how know if a cached images is used for movies, musics or addons.

Maybe I can take a look how I can improve Advanced Launcher to reduce the number of thumbnails that will be no more used : when replacing thumbs, deleting items or launcher, etc...