[CLOSED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Printable Version +- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv) +-- Forum: Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=33) +--- Forum: Add-on Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=27) +---- Forum: Game Add-ons (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=291) +---- Thread: [CLOSED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC (/showthread.php?tid=85724) Pages:
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RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - ianrace - 2015-01-01 First off, this is a great plugin for Kodi. I absolutely love the query launchers, so much potential there. I do have a couple of questions, however: 1) Is it possible for Advanced Launcher to recognize more than one genre at the same time? 2) Failing that, would it be possible for the launcher to recognize a "series" field in the nfo files? Ideally what I'd like to do is create query launchers for each series (i.e. Zork, Super Mario Bros., Thief, etc.). The problem comes in with games within a series that have differing titles (i.e Enchanter, Sorcerer, and Spellbreaker are all part of the Enchanter Trilogy. Now, I realize that I could just file them under a made-up genre of "Enchanter Trilogy", but if the launcher cannot recognize more than one at a time, I cannot at a later time create a query launcher aimed at Text Adventures. I'm not afraid of a little coding, so if someone could point me in the right direction to add this feature that would be great. Learning that the launcher already supports multiple genres would be even better. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, as always. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - fruitgull - 2015-01-02 Any suggestions for getting Openbox to work? I must use Fluxbox in Helix for my simple Firefox-script. But I'm having some problems sometimes that the FF window can't be resized and that clicking in it doesn't work. Would like to get Openbox to work again. This is my last message regarding this: ------ I've just updated (also tried installing from scratch) to Helix and having some problems with starting Firefox (and also Spotify) through A.L. This worked fine in 13.2. I'm using the same script: #!/bin/bash openbox & /usr/bin/firefox killall -9 openbox Xbmc hangs when I'm trying to run the launcher. I can start FF fine if I log into Lubuntu on the Xbmc computer. Any suggestions? UPDATE: It seems to work with fluxbox, but not with openbox. ------ RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2015-01-02 (2015-01-01, 01:52)ianrace Wrote: First off, this is a great plugin for Kodi. I absolutely love the query launchers, so much potential there.Advanced Launcher recognize only 1 genre field at the time. And there is no possibility to recognize a "series" field into an NFO file. From where come this NFO file? BTW, Advanced Launcher is not at all a games manager. If you want one for Kodi, use RCB : http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=70115 (2015-01-02, 11:03)fruitgull Wrote: Any suggestions for getting Openbox to work? I must use Fluxbox in Helix for my simple Firefox-script. But I'm having some problems sometimes that the FF window can't be resized and that clicking in it doesn't work. Would like to get Openbox to work again. This is my last message regarding this:I'm not develloper for Kodi nor Openbox. So I cannot tell you why it is not working specifically with OpenBox. If you want a suggestion, the best way is to boot your system under Flubox or Openbox and automatically launch Kodi at start. Using Kodi as stand alone is not at all the right solution to start externals applications. "Standalone" means "with no other applications". RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - ianrace - 2015-01-02 (2015-01-02, 18:54)Angelscry Wrote: From where come this NFO file? It is possible to edit an NFO file manually. I would just add the "series" field, or whatever other information I felt was missing, myself. So it's not possible to get Advanced Launcher to reconize unique fields in an NFO file? If not, that's fine. I'll come up with a workaround. I have tried RCB. It actually is able to seperate anything entered in the "genre" field seperated by a comma. For example, Action, Adventure would create two genre entities entitled Action and Adventure. Whereas Advanced Launcher would just create a single entity called Action, Adventure. Truth to tell, I just prefer Advanced Launcher as a matter of preference. Is there a way to simulate the functionality I described above -- where items listed in the "genre" field and seperated by a comma, semi-colon, etc. create multiple entities in Advanced Launcher? Thanks, as always. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2015-01-02 (2015-01-02, 22:54)ianrace Wrote: It is possible to edit an NFO file manually. I would just add the "series" field, or whatever other information I felt was missing, myself. So it's not possible to get Advanced Launcher to reconize unique fields in an NFO file? If not, that's fine. I'll come up with a workaround.No that's not possible that you simply put anything you want into an NFO file and that Advanced Launcher recognize it an know what to do with it. (2015-01-02, 22:54)ianrace Wrote: I have tried RCB. It actually is able to seperate anything entered in the "genre" field seperated by a comma. For example, Action, Adventure would create two genre entities entitled Action and Adventure. Whereas Advanced Launcher would just create a single entity called Action, Adventure.I don't understand what is the problem. Adventure/Action games are not simply Action games or Adventure games. Its a game genre by itself. (2015-01-02, 22:54)ianrace Wrote: Truth to tell, I just prefer Advanced Launcher as a matter of preference. Is there a way to simulate the functionality I described above -- where items listed in the "genre" field and seperated by a comma, semi-colon, etc. create multiple entities in Advanced Launcher?No. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - graysky - 2015-01-03 (2014-12-30, 21:34)Angelscry Wrote:(2014-12-30, 20:45)graysky Wrote: Thanks for the code; I have it running on Kodi. I am using it to simply launch /usr/bin/chromium which it does, but the resulting browser runs in a smaller window which I am unable to modifyx. What am I doing wrong?If you use Kodi into standalone mode, so it means that you do not have any windows manager actually running. So you system is not able to correctly display and manage application windows (like the chromium one). If you want to start correctly external application you mainly have 2 solutions: I created ~/bin/firefox-launch which contains: Code: #!/bin/bash I linked that to a launcher but when I invoke it through Advanced Launcher, nothing happens... I do see openbox and firefox running but not on my screen, see PIDs 6926 2927 below: Code: % pg kodi Note pg is an alias: Code: % which pg RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - bigamusj - 2015-01-04 hello i am a huge fan of your work and recently i have had to switch to openelec on a old laptop its running 5.0 , kodi 14. Will you be doing what is necessary, making this run on this system? i have it installed, however it fails to play any games, if it does work and i am possibly missing somthing please enlighten me. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2015-01-04 (2015-01-04, 07:28)bigamusj Wrote: hello i am a huge fan of your work and recently i have had to switch to openelec on a old laptop its running 5.0 , kodi 14. Will you be doing what is necessary, making this run on this system? i have it installed, however it fails to play any games, if it does work and i am possibly missing somthing please enlighten me.Advanced Launcher perfectly works on Kodi. As Openelec is dedicated to run Kodi into standalone mode (without any dekstop or windows manager) that could be your problem. Which games do you want to start? Which dekstop/windows manager ar you using on your system? (2015-01-03, 22:52)graysky Wrote: I linked that to a launcher but when I invoke it through Advanced Launcher, nothing happens... I do see openbox and firefox running but not on my screen, see PIDs 6926 2927 below:Maybe it will be better four you to ask directly to OpenElec developers why openbox could not run correcty on OpenElec. Advanced Launcher is dedicated to start applications using command line, and as your screen show openbox has been effectively started. RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - bigamusj - 2015-01-04 Sorry should of been more specific, I only run openelec as a complete stand alone. I tried. Exe and Linux emulators can't get either to work RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2015-01-04 (2015-01-04, 19:23)bigamusj Wrote: Sorry should of been more specific, I only run openelec as a complete stand alone. I tried. Exe and Linux emulators can't get either to workExe files are windows application executables. They cannot be started on Openelec (linux based). So that's normal that they will not work. For linux emulators, how have you installed them? Manually? From Openelec packages? Are your sure they are working on Openelec? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - bigamusj - 2015-01-05 Honestly no, I just tried setting it up the same I always have with advanced. Do you know of a good source to locate ones that work well? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - teeedubb - 2015-01-05 Try this for emulators on OE: http://openelec.tv/forum/128-addons/64970-retroarch-addon-32-64-bits RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - enolive - 2015-01-05 (2015-01-04, 15:55)Angelscry Wrote:(2015-01-03, 22:52)graysky Wrote: I linked that to a launcher but when I invoke it through Advanced Launcher, nothing happens... I do see openbox and firefox running but not on my screen, see PIDs 6926 2927 below:Maybe it will be better four you to ask directly to OpenElec developers why openbox could not run correcty on OpenElec. Advanced Launcher is dedicated to start applications using command line, and as your screen show openbox has been effectively started. I had the same problem after upgrading to Helix on a minimal Ubuntu installation running kodi-standalone. My script for launching applications: Code: #!/bin/sh If I set Kodi to Windowed mode, I can see the launched application inside a new window. For some strange reasons, the Kodi Window won't get any window decorations and will always stay on top (see the screenshot below). If I remember correctly, the behavior in Frodo was different. picupload I changed my system configuration so that I run openbox/kodi instead of kodi-standalone (I called the start script kodi-standalone-openbox): Code: #!/bin/sh RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2015-01-05 (2015-01-05, 06:37)enolive Wrote: I changed my system configuration so that I run openbox/kodi instead of kodi-standaloneAnd it works better with this new configuration? RE: [RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Chambers - 2015-01-05 Hi guys, I have a question regarding this plugin. My current Kodi setup is that the screen will dim after 2 mins of inactivity and then turn off after 5. Naturally Kodi recognizes when I watch videos so it doesn't dim or turn off the screen. I am using the advanced launcher plugin to start IE in fullscreen-mode to open up a website like Fox News to watch the live stream. The problem I have is that when IE is running, the screen dim's and then turns off because Kodi thinks there isn't any activity. Is there a setting I can add to my shortcuts that tell Kodi that while it's running that it is in fact an active process and that not to invoke the power saving features? If this plugin isn't the right one for it maybe something else is? Thanks again! |