tria Wrote:You are correct. The problem was due to my text editor. I forgot to set it to auto check for update on the log file, so whenever an error happened I never saw it in the log (no auto update). Once I sorted that, I managed to fix the issues one by one and now have it running with subproccess. However, I had to remove one parameter which is "startupinfo". If I leave it as a parameter I get this error

Code:

18:31:24 T:5008    INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--
18:31:24 T:5008   ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
18:31:24 T:5008   ERROR: Error Contents: 'str' object has no attribute 'dwFlags'
18:31:24 T:5008   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\addon.py", line 20, in <module>
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 179, in __init__
                                                self._run_rom(launcher, rom)
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 1316, in _run_rom
                                                proc = subprocess.Popen(r'%s %s' % (launcher["application"], arguments), shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=apppath, startupinfo=info)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\system\python\Lib\subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
                                                errread, errwrite)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\system\python\Lib\subprocess.py", line 798, in _execute_child
                                                startupinfo.dwFlags |= _subprocess.STARTF_USESTDHANDLES
                                            AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'dwFlags'
18:31:24 T:5008    INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
18:31:24 T:5008    INFO: Python script stopped

If you have any idea why (because I don't want to change your script default actions). Without it, the emulator run fine, and I get back output from STDOUT. But I want it to be with that parameter if it is important.

This was with "subproccess", if I used the hacked one "subprocess_hack" (whether it is with the parameter "startupinfo" or without it), then I get this error:

Code:

18:42:26 T:6116   ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
18:42:26 T:6116   ERROR: Error Contents: an integer is required
18:42:26 T:6116   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\addon.py", line 20, in <module>
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 179, in __init__
                                                self._run_rom(launcher, rom)
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 1316, in _run_rom
                                                proc = subprocess_hack.Popen(r'%s %s' % (launcher["application"], arguments), shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=apppath)
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\subprocess_hack.py", line 537, in __init__
                                                errread, errwrite) = self._get_handles(stdin, stdout, stderr)
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\subprocess_hack.py", line 595, in _get_handles
                                                p2cread = self._make_inheritable(p2cread)
                                              File "XXXX\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\subprocess_hack.py", line 636, in _make_inheritable
                                                DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS)
                                            TypeError: an integer is required
18:42:26 T:6116    INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
18:42:26 T:6116    INFO: Python script stopped

It would be better if I get a possible fix for the subprocess_hack version, as it will be closer to your implementation. Any ideas?

Oh, and I managed to get output from STDOUT as I wished, so expect some contribution in a couple of weeks (if not closer).

Thanks.

Quote:proc= subprocess_hack.Popen(r'%s %s' % (launcher["application"], arguments), shell=False, stdout=subprocess_hack.PIPE, cwd=apppath)

tria Wrote:If you don't mind "Angelscry", this is how you run it in fullscreen as described in the wiki for Advanced Lancher
http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=VirtuaNES
You have to edit the ini file.

tria Wrote:If you are not aware of any possible fix, can I know if subprocess_hack is only needed for bat that need to be minimized (and I can safely use subprocess instead for any other cases, like autoit or exe/bin programs). If so, then I can move the subprocess_hack into the if statement for the bat, and use subprocess for the else part.

tria Wrote:By the way, I figured what is causing "startupinfo" to make errors. In the code you made the variable "info" equals "None" as a string (in the else part), and all what it takes to fix it is to use the constant/reserved-word: None (without quotes making it a string). But I still think subprocess won't have the same result as subprocess_hack regardless of this.

benholtby Wrote:Just a quick one.

I have set up scriot to suspend xbmc when running emulators etc but whenever I launch a game from the program it is only starting the emulator and not booting directly to the rom. What do i need to add to the .sh below to do this?

#!/bin/bash
killall -STOP xbmc.bin
/usr/bin/zsnes -fs "$1"
killall -CONT xbmc.bin

thanks

seijmo Wrote:Hi,

I'm using advanced launcher on mac and I wasn't able to have snes9X directly loading a rom from xbmc so I asked on the dedicated forum and actually the code to load a rom directly at startup of snes9x needs to be like this

Code:

open -a /Applications/Snes9x.app /path/game.smc

Is there any way that I can configure this kind of call from advanced launcher or should I edit manually a configuration file?

Thanks

• Application: /path_to/open
  
• Items path: /path/
  
• Arguments: -a /Applications/Snes9x.app "%rom%"
  
• Roms Extension: smc
  

seijmo Wrote:I don't know where open executable path is so I can't access it.

Maybe I can edit manually
Application: once I have define it in Advanced Launcher?

Blackhebrew Wrote:I'm back again with yet another problem, but this time it is my emulators rather than comics, my emulators seem to have massive frame rate drops when launched from advanced launcher. F-Zero X runs at 60 FPS in PJ64 for me out when only using pj64. It runs at 20 FPS when launched from XBMC, this is the same across all my emulators, am I missing something obvious? All my arguments are in check.

jickler Wrote:I'm trying to configure Mupen64Plus to run on my AppleTV out of Advanced Launcher. I'm using a stripped down Ubuntu 8.0.4 installation (Crystalbuntu), and I know that mupen has been installed correctly because I'm able to run it from terminal, but when I try to launch it from XBMC the screen just flashes briefly. This doesn't happen with any of my other emulators. I'm brutally confused as to why this would happen, does anyone have any ideas?