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MDKeil Wrote:Hi,

today I tryed to start ultrastardx (ubuntu deb) within xbmc (ubuntu 10.10) and your nice launcher addon.. but I had no audio "ingame". Starting the game from the console, there are no problem. Now the questions.. is this a xbmc/lauchner addon or ustardx-bug??

MKeil
This kind of bug is not related to the Advanced Launcher add-on. It could something related to audio configuration into XBMC, ultrastardx or Ubuntu.
ShAddX Wrote:Will the plugin support more image/video information in the near future? (like screen AND title shot, real fanarts, videosnaps, cartridge, marquees, control panels,...) A lot of people use the Emumovies service for example (easy management/download of snapshots, packshots etc.). These infrmations are kind of normal in nowadas emulator frontends.
No, it will not support more images or videos informations. If you want a XBMC add-on that support this king of information, you can use the Rom Collection Browser add-on. Advanced Launcher is not only an emulator frontend. It is an applications launcher.

ShAddX Wrote:Would it be possible to add some kind of fading to black in the front? So you don't see the windows stuff flashing around with some emulators (GameEx does this fade for example).
You have this problem with which emulators ?
Angelscry Wrote:It is not really hanging, but it takes time for the Advanced Launcher to search the picture on Internet, download the thumbnails, cache them on your hard drive and finally generate the list. You just have to be a little more patient.

ermm.... I'm not downloading from the internet..... I have all my cover as .jpg on my hard drive..... it used to be instant.
kevenz Wrote:ermm.... I'm not downloading from the internet..... I have all my cover as .jpg on my hard drive..... it used to be instant.
Ok... yes... if the images are already on your hard drive normally it is instant. Do you have a script error message? What are you exactly doing when it happens? Where are stored those images? Eek
Angelscry Wrote:Are you using Windows or Linux ?

Linux
-Yes I have a script error message in addon.py.

-they're on the same hard drive as everything.......c:\mame\roms , c:\mame\thumbs , c:\mame\fanarts

-it hang usually when trying to open the thumbnails folder.
Little post to reminds XBMC users that the Advanced Launcher is not an emulators frontend and so it will never have all the functionalities that other emulators frontend or roms managers have.

Advanced Launcher, is an applications launcher. That's mean that it can start any kind of applications not just game or emulators. Compared to the old Launcher version, the Advanced launcher has the possibility to use scrapers to get data, informations and images from Internet to improve and media information display into XBMC. Actually the included scrapers are effectively mostly oriented for console, PC or arcades games. But in the future, scrapers for other kind of media content could be added.

This is an example of a totally different application of the Advanced Launcher : Comics Viewer.

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This is the starting page of the Advanced Launcher. Here games or games platforms are replaced by comics series or collections with title of the series, author, release date, comic genre and series description. This is the corresponding launchers.xml code :
Code:
<launcher>
    <name>Sambre</name>
    <application>/usr/bin/qcomicbook</application>
    <args>"%rom%"</args>
    <rompath>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/</rompath>
    <thumbpath>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/thumbs/</thumbpath>
    <fanartpath>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/fanarts/</fanartpath>
    <romext>cbr|cbz</romext>
    <platform></platform>
    <thumb>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/thumbs/T00.jpg</thumb>
    <fanart>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/fanarts/sambre.jpg</fanart>
    <genre>Historique</genre>
    <release>1986</release>
    <publisher>Yslaire</publisher>
    <launcherplot>Très sombre et mélancolique, Sambre nous raconte l'histoire d'une famille bourgeoise rurale du XIXe siècle et plus particulièrement celle de Bernard Sambre, épris de Julie, une jeune vagabonde aux yeux rouges que sa famille exècre au point de les porter au rang de superstition. Les destins, les esprits et les corps s' expriment, se croisent et se blessent. Nul ne peut échapper à son destin ...</launcherplot>
    <wait>true</wait>
    <roms>
    ...
Comics are under .cbr and/or .cbz formats (renamed .rar and .zip archive files). For the linux application I'm actually using qcomicbook which has a simple command line support. Configuration of the application (fullscreen at start, display of the pages, etc...) is made and saved directly from the application GUI. .cbr and .cbz files are used as roms. This is how they are displayed when we select a serie:

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Here games/roms are replaced by comics books with title of the comic, publisher, release date, comic genre and description. This is the corresponding launchers.xml code :
Code:
<rom>
    <name>La Guerre des Sambre - Hugo et Iris - Tome 2</name>
    <filename>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/La Guerre des Sambre - Hugo et Iris - Tome 2.cbr</filename>
    <platform>Action Max</platform>
    <thumb>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/thumbs/lgds t02.jpg</thumb>
    <fanart>/home/gwenael/Desktop/BD/Sambre/fanarts/lgdst02.jpg</fanart>
    <genre>Historique</genre>
    <release>2008</release>
    <publisher>Glenat</publisher>
    <gameplot>La Guerre des Sambre est une collection de romans d'amour, dont la série principale, Sambre, conte l’histoire de Bernard et Julie, et continue aujourd’hui avec celle de leurs parents, Hugo & Iris. Automne 1830 : Alors que son père, à l’agonie, le réclame, Hugo Sambre vient, soir après soir, à la salle Le Peletier admirer Iris, l’actrice principale de La Muette de Portici, dont les yeux rouges l’attirent comme un aimant. Iris est l’incarnation vivante de ses plus folles théories, l’aboutissement de ses recherches sur La guerre des yeux… Un soir, il décide de l’aborder… Avec Hugo et Iris, Yslaire revient sur la jeunesse d’Hugo Sambre, le père de Bernard Sambre, sur sa passion funeste pour Iris, mère de Julie. Scénariste et metteur en scène, il confie le dessin de cette histoire à deux jeunes prodiges, Bastide et Mezil. Chaque histoire se décline en un cycle de trois albums qui sera écrit par Yslaire et dessiné par un dessinateur différent. Chaque cycle peut se lire séparément, comme une oeuvre exceptionnelle, ou comme un chapitre d'une folie amoureuse qui traverse les générations…</gameplot>
</rom>
You can actually , all of you, do this with the actual Advanced Launcher version. Creation of the comics collection is more longer than for games because there is no dedicated scraper. As you see you can do this with comics, but you maybe will be able to do this this any kind of other medias. So this is the main reason why the Advanced launcher will never be just an emulator frontend.
kevenz Wrote:-Yes I have a script error message in addon.py.

-they're on the same hard drive as everything.......c:\mame\roms , c:\mame\thumbs , c:\mame\fanarts

-it hang usually when trying to open the thumbnails folder.
Ok if you have an error message could you please post here the content of the xbmc crash log file? It will contain the detail about the error and it will help me to fix this error. Thank you.
mdoubleok Wrote:Linux
The way you could bypass this is to try to close XBMC in the same time you are starting the emulator. I know that some people already use this technique using a applaunch.sh bash script under linux : http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=612...tcount=742
Angelscry Wrote:Ok if you have an error message could you please post here the content of the xbmc crash log file? It will contain the detail about the error and it will help me to fix this error. Thank you.

http://pastebin.com/gMmCuutS

I deleted my old .log...... started xbmc and added a new rom manually.
it freeze when I click on "Manually add rom"
kevenz Wrote:http://pastebin.com/gMmCuutS

I deleted my old .log...... started xbmc and added a new rom manually.
it freeze when I click on "Manually add rom"
Huuuu..... not really explicit. Could you please send me also your launchers.xml file. I think there is an error inside. If not, I will be able to use your launchers.xml file and try to reproduce the error.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4b6vzp7y6b6dl27

here Smile I opened it with XML Marker and it said there is no errors.
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Hi everyone, just a simple question how do I import files and images without scraping. There's three menu which one do I turn off. I want to import swf files. Thank you
Hi,

I have problems with installing the script. Im running XBMC on Windows 7.
When I try to launch the plugin it shows me the dialog-screen for choosing betweeng Standalone and File Launch. If I choose anything I will be redirected to the next screen, where I can choose the application to launch. The thing is: My local drives aren't shown, I can only choose between my CD-Drive and external USB-Disks.
Is there a step I am missing?
Here is my XBMC-Log for launching the Addon:
Code:
11:49:05 T:2300 M:4294967295 WARNING: Skin has invalid include: dialogOpen
11:49:05 T:2300 M:4294967295 WARNING: Skin has invalid include: dialogSeparator
11:49:31 T:2300 M:4294967295 WARNING: Previous line repeats 5 times.
11:49:31 T:2300 M:4294967295 WARNING: Skin has invalid include: dialogeffect
11:49:48 T:3776 M:4294967295 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
11:49:48 T:3776 M:4294967295  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
11:49:50 T:2644 M:4294967295 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn
11:49:50 T:2168 M:4294967295 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://sources/executable/fanart.jpg
11:49:50 T:4008 M:4294967295 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://sources/fanart.jpg
11:49:51 T:4700 M:4294967295 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
11:49:51 T:4700 M:4294967295  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
11:49:52 T:4700 M:4294967295  NOTICE: Mode AddOn ON
11:49:52 T:4700 M:4294967295  NOTICE: C:\Users\*****\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\plugin.program.advanced.launcher
11:49:52 T:4700 M:4294967295  NOTICE: 0
11:49:52 T:4700 M:4294967295  NOTICE: ERROR: Main::get_xml_source (763) - invalid mode: r
11:49:52 T:4700 M:4294967295  NOTICE: Launcher: found 0 launchers
11:49:54 T:4700 M:4294967295 WARNING: Skin has invalid include: dialogOpen
11:49:54 T:4700 M:4294967295 WARNING: Skin has invalid include: dialogSeparator

Thanks for your help!
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