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RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - finalmakerr - 2014-05-29 Hello everyone! I have searched anywhere but can't find a solution to the following issue: MAME's Roms doesn't generate/read/use cfg files while using Advanced Launcher. Using the command line does by the way. I am using OpenElec 4.0.2, Advanced Launcher 2.5.2 and retroarch 3.2.4.2014-03-12. Thank you for reading this :cheer: R: RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Bazzu85 - 2014-05-29 (2014-05-23, 16:56)Angelscry Wrote:(2014-05-23, 15:16)Bazzu85 Wrote: I angelscry, there are some kind of problems with comicvine scraper? For example for manga Fairy Tail #1 he found details but don't download thumbs..I will take a look. Maybe something has been changed on the Comic Vine website, and the scrapper need to be updated. News? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - GMan78 - 2014-05-30 Hi Angelscry, my humble gratitude for your most awesome Advanced Launcher add-on! This is my first time attempt at using Advanced Launcher. Having challenges with "Script Failed" errors when attempting to run PC Games. I have looked extensively at the wiki, manual, forum and assorted tutorials, and as best as I can tell I'm properly configuring the tool. XBMC 13.0 Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Advanced Launcher 2.52 Please see the following XBMC log in Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/C73U2GGJ Thanks in advance for all, and let me know if you require anything further in assessing the error. Best, George RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2014-05-30 (2014-05-30, 04:17)GMan78 Wrote: Hi Angelscry, my humble gratitude for your most awesome Advanced Launcher add-on!Seems that there is something wrong with your launcher configuration. Could you please post also the content of your launcher.xml file? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - GMan78 - 2014-05-30 Sure thing, thanks for the amazing response time! http://pastebin.com/7EQnaqFa RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2014-05-30 (2014-05-30, 04:56)GMan78 Wrote: Sure thing, thanks for the amazing response time!As you do not need to pass any argument into the started application (because you are using them as stand alone launcher), leave blank the arguments parameter (just delete the "%rom%" value). RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2014-05-30 (2014-05-29, 08:14)finalmakerr Wrote: Hello everyone!Where is installed mame on your system? Into /usr/bin ? Does the roms, ini and cfg paths are set correctly into mame.ini path? Does the XBMC user have the rights to read"write into thoses directories? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - GMan78 - 2014-05-30 Thanks, but regrettably same result "Script Failed!". Updated Launchers.xml: http://pastebin.com/dqu8ZWGc RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2014-05-30 (2014-05-30, 05:18)Angelscry Wrote:It could be also possible that MAME is not able to found the mame.ini file at startup and so it is not able the get all the right paths to work properly.(2014-05-29, 08:14)finalmakerr Wrote: Hello everyone!Where is installed mame on your system? Into /usr/bin ? You can try to start MAME using the -inipath "~/.mame/ini" argument depending where is located the default mame.ini. So your launcher argument could be : -inipath "~/.mame/ini" "%rom%" RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - GMan78 - 2014-05-30 Quote:GMan78 Wrote: Quote:Angelscry Wrote: Seems that there is something wrong with your launcher configuration. Could you please post also the content of your launcher.xml file? Quote:OK, I think I'm on to something. Interestingly, I experimented with Windows Calculator (calc.exe) instead of one of the games.Quote:Angelscry Wrote: As you do not need to pass any argument into the started application (because you are using them as stand alone launcher), leave blank the arguments parameter (just delete the "%rom%" value). If I create a new launcher for calc.exe from "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CALC.EXE" (WORKS!) If I create a new launcher for calc.exe from "D:\XBMCPREP\GAMES\CALC.EXE" ("SCRIPT FAILED!") Note that my games are all installed on my "D" drive. If I go into Windows Explorer and launch any of my game executables directly from their D: install directory they launch fine. Hope this helps you to see a solution for me. Thanks! George RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - twiseva - 2014-05-31 (2014-05-21, 04:54)Angelscry Wrote:(2014-05-21, 04:35)twiseva Wrote: So I just switched from Eden to Gotham and also from NOX to AEON MQ5. I am having this exact same issue. I have no resolution but have tried:Do you have the same probleme if you use the "fullscreen window" rather than "true fullscreen" option that is present into XBMC video settings? So I was running in fullscreen windows all the time -- tried an actual window and didn't see any change (still did not work). A few other things about teh external application (just in case they matter): - Using autoit to execute. - Using LaunchXBMC as a shell and it has been set NOT to give XBMC focus when launching this external app. - App it launches via a favorite in a sub-menu of the main XBMC pages. I do see errors in the log as follows (this is a successful launch of an external slideshow which continues playing the existing song then stops at the end). It almost seems as if the player is trying to run the launcher as the next song perhaps? 11:05:23 T:7840 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false 11:05:23 T:7840 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:05:23 T:7840 NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file 11:05:23 T:7840 NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation 11:09:36 T:6360 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true 11:28:16 T:6644 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times. 11:28:16 T:6644 ERROR: XBMC.PlayMedia could not play media: plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?70d8a32560ab0adcedb348a0fcd829ba/77529a6a01e1bfff5bc0a2796742557e 11:28:22 T:3524 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true 11:28:43 T:7660 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 3 times. 11:28:43 T:7660 NOTICE: Thread Timer start, auto delete: false 11:28:56 T:6792 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false 11:28:56 T:6792 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 4 times. 11:28:56 T:6792 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:28:56 T:3684 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:28:56 T:2352 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:28:56 T:1768 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:28:56 T:6688 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:29:06 T:708 NOTICE: Thread FileCache start, auto delete: false 11:29:07 T:6176 NOTICE: Thread PAPlayer start, auto delete: false 11:29:07 T:3524 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting smb://HTPC/Music/Elton John/Greatest Hits (Volume II)/extrafanart/ 11:29:14 T:1384 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false 11:29:15 T:1384 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 11:29:15 T:1384 NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file 11:29:15 T:1384 NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation 11:32:50 T:1280 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true 11:33:25 T:6644 ERROR: XBMC.PlayMedia could not play media: plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?70d8a32560ab0adcedb348a0fcd829ba/77529a6a01e1bfff5bc0a2796742557e 11:34:17 T:3300 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true 11:34:17 T:6620 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false 11:34:17 T:6620 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- Any hints or ideas are most appreciated. I'll also keep at it as I have time. Cheers, Tony. P.S. Lifesaver application -- helps integrate media XBMC can not handle too well. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - twiseva - 2014-05-31 (2014-05-31, 17:41)twiseva Wrote:(2014-05-21, 04:54)Angelscry Wrote:(2014-05-21, 04:35)twiseva Wrote: So I just switched from Eden to Gotham and also from NOX to AEON MQ5. I am having this exact same issue. I have no resolution but have tried:Do you have the same problem if you use the "fullscreen window" rather than "true fullscreen" option that is present into XBMC video settings? So quick update on progress -- it seems to work FINE when launching from within Advanced Launcher rather than from sub-menu of Main Menus (via a favorites shortcut). I'll dig deeper into the XML to see what's up. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - twiseva - 2014-05-31 (2014-05-31, 17:56)twiseva Wrote:(2014-05-31, 17:41)twiseva Wrote:(2014-05-21, 04:54)Angelscry Wrote: Do you have the same problem if you use the "fullscreen window" rather than "true fullscreen" option that is present into XBMC video settings? SOLVED! So the issue was basically teh skins when you add a favorite as a sub menu use the 'PlayMedia' builtin. If you change this in the XML to 'PlayPlugin' this fixes this issue. See below for changes I made in guisettings.xml. BEFORE (Stopping after 1 song): <setting type="string" name="skin.aeonmq5.menu0902.path">PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?70d8a32560ab0adcedb348a0fcd829ba/77529a6a01e1bfff5bc0a2796742557e",return)</setting> AFTER (Keeps playing songs): <setting type="string" name="skin.aeonmq5.menu0902.path">RunPlugin("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?70d8a32560ab0adcedb348a0fcd829ba/77529a6a01e1bfff5bc0a2796742557e",return)</setting> Thanks for the help -- hope this helps others. NOt sure what the old NOX did in Eden but this same approach worked there fine. Cheers, Tony. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2014-06-01 The problem is that XBMC only manage media by default. So when you have an item (that is not a folder), the favourite script automatically identify it as a media and so use the PlayMedia() fonction as default. It is not a skin problem but a favourite script problem. (2014-05-30, 15:27)GMan78 Wrote: Note that my games are all installed on my "D" drive. If I go into Windows Explorer and launch any of my game executables directly from their D: install directory they launch fine.They are real installs on D: drive or you just copy/paste form C: drive to D: drive. Because the error is due to the fact that because the executable files are not located into the dedicated windows folders (Program Files, Programs, etc...), they are not recognized as an authorized windows application and so cannot properly been started form python using the popen function. This problem do not appear for windows version prior to version 7. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - GMan78 - 2014-06-01 (2014-06-01, 06:16)Angelscry Wrote: The problem is that XBMC only manage media by default. So when you have an item (that is not a folder), the favourite script automatically identify it as a media and so use the PlayMedia() fonction as default. It is not a skin problem but a favourite script problem. Thanks for the reply. Hmmm....I did not copy the files...when I ran the install program for the games it asked me where I wanted them installed and I provided the "D:\XBMCPREP\GAMES" directory. Does that mean that under Windows 7, in order for my games to work with Advanced Launcher I must install them into the C:\Program Files (x86) directory? That will require some restructuring of my storage system but is possible. Best, George |