marlboroman1 Wrote:ps dose this build work on xbox

marlboroman1 Wrote:and will it be going in the plugin svn

leo2 Wrote:I've working last few weeks on a plugin that is able to run windows or linux applications within the XBMC GUI.
The plugin has been tested and working under:
Windows XP - XBMC Rev14676
Ubuntu 8.04 - XBMC Rev14725

Gamester17 Wrote:is it backwards compatible with XBMC for Xbox as well?

us1111 Wrote:I Probably don't get this..Tried to add a firefox script once and did it wrong.. Now when I try to add a launcher, I can't redo the firefox script..

browse -> Program Plugins -> Launcher -> Firefox Folder() -> Import Files From Path? ->

Yes -> Hangs on dialog "Loading Directory"
No -> Empty Directory

How can I make a new launcher and erase the "old" firefox settings? And another question, can I make multiple launchers?

DigiNews Wrote:I know you never intended for it to work on Xbox, just reporting it that it indeed for me at least does not work. Reports a network error. Great plugin however, I'm sure it will be extremely easy to use.

1. Line #3 of "settings.xml" had to change the default thumbnails path. The other path was causing an error that said "Network Path Could not be found". I also received this error message whenever I had a typo or misconfiguaration with "launcher_plugin.py"... Perhaps a better error routine is needed?
   
   Code:

   <setting id="thumbs_path" type="folder" source="files" label="30001" default="Q:\UserData\Thumbnails\Programs" />
2. Within "launcher_plugin.py" you use an if/else statement to determine what platform we are using.
   
   Code:

   if (sys.platform == 'win32'):
                    if (launcher["wait"] == "true"):
                        cmd = "System.ExecWait"
                    else:
                        cmd = "System.Exec"
                    xbmc.executebuiltin("%s(\"%s\" %s \"%s\")" % (cmd, launcher["application"], launcher["args"], rom["filename"]))
                elif (sys.platform.startswith('linux')):
                    os.system("%s %s %s" % (launcher["application"], launcher["args"], rom["filename"]))
                else:
   I discovered a fatal flaw with using
   Code:

   sys.platform
   as the xbox returns it's system platform as "win32" instead of "xbox".
   I noticed that within the Apple Movie Trailer script they use a similiar check to determine what platform we are using
   
   Code:

   environment = os.environ.get( "OS", "xbox" )
    if ( environment == "Linux" or environment == "OS X" ):
        ext = ".so"
    else:
        environment = "win32"
        ext = ".pyd"
   This statement appeared to work a little better. I tested it on my xbox and it properly replied with the environment equal to "xbox" and then I tested the same code on my Windows installation and it properly returned "win32". I didn't get a chance to test it on Ubuntu 8.04 but I imagine it would return "Linux" as the environment.
   
   I tried to replace your If Statements with the above code from the Apple Trailers Script throughout your "launcher_plugin.py", but it failed. I ended up just declaring a variable at the very top of the script called "platform" and set it equal to "xbox".
   
   
   
3. I ran into another problem within "launchers.xml" where all of my roms had double quotes around their paths. I couldn't find where in your code they were getting this so I just searched and replaced "launchers.xml" for the double quotations and removed them.
   
   
   
4. The final problem I have detected is when grabbing thumbnails the path is written with a forward slash "/" and for me to get them to display on my xbox with the thumb path I set above I had to switch this to a back slash "\". I'm not sure what part of the code needs to be changes because I found lots of calls to thumbnails and "/" but the one spot that seemed to work for me was on line #377 of "launcher_plugin.py"
   
   Code:

   filepath = "%s\%s" % (path, os.path.basename(url))
   I still ran into a problem with some images not displaying when I select them from them from the thumbnail search, but I have not had time to diagnose this problem yet.