[RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs

Code:
#!/bin/bash

# App Launch script - Quit XBMC to launch another program

# Thanks to rodalpho @ # http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=34635

# By Redsandro     2008-07-07

# By ryosaeba87    2010-08-24 (Added support for MacOSX)

# 





# Check for agruments

if [ -z "$*" ]; then

    echo "No arguments provided."

    echo "Usage:"

    echo "applaunch.sh [/path/to/]executable [arguments]"

    exit

fi





# DNO: Just set an OS variable (if OSX) and the XBMC binary name for now

case "$(uname -s)" in

    Darwin)

        XBMC_BIN=$(ps -A | grep XBMC.app | grep -v Helper | grep -v grep | awk '{print $5}')

        OSX=1

        echo "MacOSX detected"

        ;;

    Linux)

        XBMC_BIN="xbmc"

        echo "Linux detected"

        ;;    

    *)

        echo "I don't support this OS!"

        exit 1

        ;;

esac



# DNO: Create a function to get the PID of XBMC since we will be doing this several times

function getpid(){

if [ $OSX ]

then

    XBMC_PID=$(ps -A | grep XBMC.app | grep -v Helper | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}')

else

    XBMC_PID=$(pidof xbmc.bin)

fi

}



# DNO: Now, let's call that function so we can check if XBMC is running

getpid

echo "PID detected as $XBMC_PID"





# Is XBMC running?

if [ -n "$XBMC_PID" ] # DNO: Added quotes here to prevent statement always evaluating true

then

    kill -15 $XBMC_PID # Shutdown nice

    echo "Shutdown nice"

else

    echo "This script should only be run from within XBMC."

    exit

fi



# Wait for the kill

# DNO: Rather than try to guess how long we need to wait for XBMC to shut down...

# DNO: ... let's check every two seconds for up to 30 seconds

# DNO: Max wait time is x*2 in seconds, so you can adjust as needed

# DNO: Setting initial value for x to 0 or a negative number will ensure SIGKILL in most cases

# DNO: y is just there so you can see how long it took XBMC to shut down

x=15

y=2

while [ $x -gt 0 ]

do

    sleep 2

    getpid

    if [ -n "$XBMC_PID" ]

    then

        x=$(( $x - 1 ))

        y=$(( $y + 2 ))

    else

        x=0

        echo "XBMC shut down nicely in under $y seconds."

    fi

done





# Is XBMC still running?

if [ -n "$XBMC_PID" ] # DNO: Added quotes here to prevent statement always evaluating true

then

    kill -9 $XBMC_PID # Force immediate kill

    echo "Shutdown hard"

fi



echo "$@"



# Launch app - escaped!

"$@"





# SOMETIMES xbmc starts too fast, and on some hardware if there is still a millisecond of sound being used, XBMC starts witout sound and some emulators say there is a problem with the sound hardware. If so, remove comment:

#sleep 1





# Done? Restart XBMC

$XBMC_BIN &