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RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - sagaopc - 2013-05-16

i restart PC and waiting for one day to try again and nothing... covers doesn't appear, i try every method!!!!


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - n1md4 - 2013-05-16

(2013-05-16, 02:55)Angelscry Wrote:
(2013-05-15, 22:38)n1md4 Wrote: I have done more tests. Only ScummVM and Steam are not scraping images only.
What have you indicated as platform for this 2 launchers? If the platform is wrong, the scrapper will not be able to found the good images. For Steam, it must be IBM PC compatible. For ScummVM... it depend the game you want to play...

Ah! I set them to Linux. I'll try that later then.

(2013-05-16, 02:55)Angelscry Wrote:
(2013-05-15, 22:38)n1md4 Wrote: I also check ALA version, I was running 1.10, then noticed add-on repositories were not functional. I installed your latest repository and tried again. Still no images, but now with another error:

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=19343
This problem could be related to Advanced Launcher translation. Some languages are not anymore updated (contributor who stopped to contribute to Advanced Launcher translation). If you put XBMC into default english language does this error occurs again?

Again, I'll double check later.

(2013-05-16, 02:55)Angelscry Wrote:
(2013-05-15, 22:38)n1md4 Wrote: And now, when I enter ALA, the first folder is empty except for one called 'default', if I click that then there are all my launchers. Has any one seen this before?
Yes... that's Advanced Launcher category support. You can create any category you want, and sort your launcher as you want inside them. The Default category is where launchers that have not been attrubuted to any category are stored... by default. Once you have updated to version 2.x, your launchers have been saved by default into this category.

Is there a way to disable or hide categories? If not, it's a feature request Smile The reason why, I like to use ALA to launch games only, and some skins will customise the Program main menu to suit Game. Useful to me, if it doesn't mean a huge rewrite to you.


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-05-16

(2013-05-16, 17:13)n1md4 Wrote: Is there a way to disable or hide categories? If not, it's a feature request Smile The reason why, I like to use ALA to launch games only, and some skins will customise the Program main menu to suit Game. Useful to me, if it doesn't mean a huge rewrite to you.
You can hide the default category by going into Advanced Launcher > Add-on settings > Miscellaneous > Display Options > Hide the Default category. For the other category it is not possible. I will not add any feature to hide other catyegories. If you do not want to see them, that's simple... do not create them.


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - sagaopc - 2013-05-16

I find what cause my problem with scrapper... in Windows 7 i tested all thing and only have problems with DS roms... i see pokemon is writed pokÉmon... When i change to pokemon, the cover and fanart appear again!!! sorry for trouble angels!


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - JDizzy - 2013-05-17

A quick question.

I am using advanced launcher to start a windows program called MC18.exe.

Is there a way to just start the windows program with <onclick> command from a menu without going through all the advanced
launcher sub menus?
or...
One way I figured out was to make the Windows program a Favorite and then used the Favorites menu to launch through Advanced Launcher.
Is there also a way to launch the favorite directly from <onclick>?

Hope that makes sense....


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-05-17

(2013-05-17, 02:46)JDizzy Wrote: A quick question.

I am using advanced launcher to start a windows program called MC18.exe.

Is there a way to just start the windows program with <onclick> command from a menu without going through all the advanced
launcher sub menus?
or...
One way I figured out was to make the Windows program a Favorite and then used the Favorites menu to launch through Advanced Launcher.
Is there also a way to launch the favorite directly from <onclick>?

Hope that makes sense....
You can create a stand alone launcher pointing to your MC18.exe executable file. Then create a favourite of this launcher. If the skin you are using support menu or submenu creation based on favourites, then you just have to select this favourite as menu or submeny entry.

If your skin do not support this feature, then you just have to open your xbmc/userdata/favourites.xml file, and copy/paste the link corresponding to the MC18.exe favourite into your <onclick> tag. For example if your launcher favourite is :

Code:
...
<favourite name="Advance Wars" thumb="/mnt/QNAP/Jeux/Game Boy Advance/thumbs/Advance Wars (E)(Arrogance).jpg">PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?5b83b7bb3b344e9eb61db1b378073353/38944fb99c3e9279236180949e663b6c/81492ab54b8d39adc352c967e132b612")</favourite>
...

then the corresponding onclick tag will simply be :

Code:
<onclick>PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?5b83b7bb3b344e9eb61db1b378073353/38944fb99c3e9279236180949e663b6c/81492ab54b8d39adc352c967e132b612")</onclick>

Concerning your first question, yes, you can start an executable file from a <onclick> tag without using Advanced Launcher. You just have to call the XBMC.System.Exec() built-in function.


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - JDizzy - 2013-05-17

(2013-05-17, 04:03)Angelscry Wrote: You can create a stand alone launcher pointing to your MC18.exe executable file. Then create a favourite of this launcher. If the skin you are using support menu or submenu creation based on favourites, then you just have to select this favourite as menu or submeny entry.

If your skin does not support this feature, then you just have to open your xbmc/userdata/favourites.xml file, and copy/paste the link corresponding to the MC18.exe favourite into your <onclick> tag. For example if your launcher favourite is :

Code:
...
<favourite name="Advance Wars" thumb="/mnt/QNAP/Jeux/Game Boy Advance/thumbs/Advance Wars (E)(Arrogance).jpg">PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?5b83b7bb3b344e9eb61db1b378073353/38944fb99c3e9279236180949e663b6c/81492ab54b8d39adc352c967e132b612")</favourite>
...

then the corresponding onclick tag will simply be :

Code:
<onclick>PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?5b83b7bb3b344e9eb61db1b378073353/38944fb99c3e9279236180949e663b6c/81492ab54b8d39adc352c967e132b612")</onclick>

Exactly the way I did it.... THANKS for your help and addon!


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - n1md4 - 2013-05-17

(2013-05-16, 17:13)n1md4 Wrote:
(2013-05-16, 02:55)Angelscry Wrote:
(2013-05-15, 22:38)n1md4 Wrote: I have done more tests. Only ScummVM and Steam are not scraping images only.
What have you indicated as platform for this 2 launchers? If the platform is wrong, the scrapper will not be able to found the good images. For Steam, it must be IBM PC compatible. For ScummVM... it depend the game you want to play...

Ah! I set them to Linux. I'll try that later then.

Fixed! All scraping is now working.

(2013-05-16, 17:13)n1md4 Wrote:
(2013-05-16, 02:55)Angelscry Wrote:
(2013-05-15, 22:38)n1md4 Wrote: I also check ALA version, I was running 1.10, then noticed add-on repositories were not functional. I installed your latest repository and tried again. Still no images, but now with another error:

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=19343
This problem could be related to Advanced Launcher translation. Some languages are not anymore updated (contributor who stopped to contribute to Advanced Launcher translation). If you put XBMC into default english language does this error occurs again?

Again, I'll double check later.

It was set to to English, but still a problem. I'll do some more testing, to know exactly when it's happening.

(2013-05-16, 18:51)Angelscry Wrote:
(2013-05-16, 17:13)n1md4 Wrote: Is there a way to disable or hide categories? If not, it's a feature request Smile The reason why, I like to use ALA to launch games only, and some skins will customise the Program main menu to suit Game. Useful to me, if it doesn't mean a huge rewrite to you.
You can hide the default category by going into Advanced Launcher > Add-on settings > Miscellaneous > Display Options > Hide the Default category. For the other category it is not possible. I will not add any feature to hide other catyegories. If you do not want to see them, that's simple... do not create them.

That makes sense, but does not appear to be working for me. If I hide the default category I lose all my launchers. I could attempt to create them again with the default category hidden or is there some other configuration I need to check?


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-05-17

(2013-05-17, 13:43)n1md4 Wrote: It was set to to English, but still a problem. I'll do some more testing, to know exactly when it's happening.
So you have a problem with your Advanced Launcher install. Which version of Advanced Launcher are your using?

(2013-05-17, 13:43)n1md4 Wrote: That makes sense, but does not appear to be working for me. If I hide the default category I lose all my launchers. I could attempt to create them again with the default category hidden or is there some other configuration I need to check?
You don't need to create them again. Just create a new category and move your launchers that are into the "Default" category into the newly created category. To do this, highlight your launcher, go into context menu ("C" key), go into "Edit Launcher", then go into "Change Category" and select in which category you want to move your launcher.


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - sagaopc - 2013-05-17

angels, i have a problem now... i change config to toggle XBMC to windowned mode ON, but when i close emulator, XBMC doesn't go back to fullscreen.... it's happening with my Windows 8 and Windows 7 backup...

you can help me plz?


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-05-18

(2013-05-17, 23:12)sagaopc Wrote: angels, i have a problem now... i change config to toggle XBMC to windowned mode ON, but when i close emulator, XBMC doesn't go back to fullscreen.... it's happening with my Windows 8 and Windows 7 backup...

you can help me plz?
Have you check that the "Use a fullscreen window" option that is present into XBMC system setting is activated?


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - n1md4 - 2013-05-18

(2013-05-17, 14:13)Angelscry Wrote: So you have a problem with your Advanced Launcher install. Which version of Advanced Launcher are your using?

2.0.6

I must say, it doesn't seem to be causing a problem. But I do wonder why it errors?

(2013-05-17, 13:43)n1md4 Wrote: You don't need to create them again. Just create a new category and move your launchers that are into the "Default" category into the newly created category. To do this, highlight your launcher, go into context menu ("C" key), go into "Edit Launcher", then go into "Change Category" and select in which category you want to move your launcher.

The point is, I don't want categories at all. If I hide the default category I have nothing within ALA but the ".." with only 'add-on settings' or 'go to root' as options.


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-05-18

(2013-05-18, 02:41)n1md4 Wrote: The point is, I don't want categories at all. If I hide the default category I have nothing within ALA but the ".." with only 'add-on settings' or 'go to root' as options.
So, simply show the default category, put all your launchers inside it and finally point your XBMC Games menu/favorite/shortcut to the Default directory (plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?default) instead of the Advanced Launcher root directory (plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher).


RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2013-05-18

(2013-05-18, 02:41)n1md4 Wrote: I must say, it doesn't seem to be causing a problem. But I do wonder why it errors?
It will be fixed by version 2.0.7. I have made a mistake into message string attribution. Tongue

Version 2.0.7 : This new version of Advanced Launcher is just fixing some minor display bugs. Nothing new.

Changelog :
  • Fix No fanart message display.
  • Fix change category display.



RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - DocMAX - 2013-05-18

(2013-05-14, 01:40)Angelscry Wrote: Version 2.0.6 : This new version of Advanced Launcher is a minor version fixing the audio sound loop occuring when starting an application.

Changelog :
  • Fix audio sound loop when starting an application

works fine now :-)