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- DownOne - 2011-04-17

Angelscry Wrote:Hummm... strange. There clearly something that Advanced Launcher do not like into your dolphin launcher configuration :
  • Try to correct the argument /b /e to /b /e "%rom%". Must not be linked... but it will surely works better like this.
  • The error message is WindowsError: [Errno 740] U hebt niet de benodigde bevoegdheden voor deze bewerking. So... it seems that XBMC do not have the powers necessary to start Dolphin.exe. Is it the same windows user that have installed XBMC and Dolphin applications?

Oooooh I got it.. I made it open as administrator.. Otherwise it wasn't saving the options.. But I removed it and it works! thanks alot my friend!

BTW best emulator add-on for xbmc till now!


- Angelscry - 2011-04-18

Black Icons Pack - Version 1.0 : Here is my second thumbs and fanarts images pack dedicated to console, handheld console and retro computer for Advanced Launcher. This pack have been made for Cirrus Extended skin but may surely render well with other skins.

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This first version contain thumbs (225x225) and fanarts (1024x580) images for 47 consoles, handheld consoles and retro computers. Other systems will be surely added into next versions.

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I'm not actually totally satisfy of several logos and images, so images updates will surely occur in the next versions.

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Download : advanced.launcher.black.icons.pack.1.0.0.zip


- HenryFord - 2011-04-18

Nice pack - thanks for sharing!

Just a heads up: With the nightly builds your addon does not work - it always says "addon.py failed" - a debug log of the corresponding part (note that I changed my username...):
http://pastebin.com/Tid9u5fQ

It changed with the build from the 8th of march I think. I'll report in your forum as well.


- Angelscry - 2011-04-18

HenryFord Wrote:Nice pack - thanks for sharing!

Just a heads up: With the nightly builds your addon does not work - it always says "addon.py failed" - a debug log of the corresponding part (note that I changed my username...):
http://pastebin.com/Tid9u5fQ

It changed with the build from the 8th of march I think. I'll report in your forum as well.
With actual nightly builds, XBMC will not use the same python version as for Dharma. That a major change, because all the add-ons and plugins are based on python coding. So... it is normal that the add-on is not working actually for this nighty builds. Unfortunately, I will not update Advanced Launcher to work with those nighty build :
First, because It will be to complicated to make an add-on based on 2 python versions that will work correctly and also because I'm not really enthusiast to make 2 different version of Advanced Launcher (1 for Dharma and 1 for nighty builds). I will make Advanced Launcher compatible with the next version of XBMC when this one will be under its beta version. Actually there is too many change into nighty builds and it make non sense to try to make something correctly work on it.


- HenryFord - 2011-04-18

Totally can understand that (and suspected that reply) - just wanted to give you a heads up ,) Thanks for your work!


- Arcanthur - 2011-04-20

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've released an update to my skin Fusion with full Advanced Launcher support. It has views for several different coverart sizes including SNES cover art. I plan on improving support for it in the future with more views specific to games. If you're interested check it out here.

And thank you Angelscry for such an awesome add-on!!!


- Angelscry - 2011-04-21

Arcanthur Wrote:Just wanted to let everyone know that I've released an update to my skin Fusion with full Advanced Launcher support. It has views for several different coverart sizes including SNES cover art. I plan on improving support for it in the future with more views specific to games. If you're interested check it out here.

And thank you Angelscry for such an awesome add-on!!!
Thank you very much Arcanthur, first for your global work on the Fusion skin and also for the integration of program views compatible with Advanced Launcher. Nod


- thesuffering - 2011-04-21

Angelscry Wrote:With actual nightly builds, XBMC will not use the same python version as for Dharma. That a major change, because all the add-ons and plugins are based on python coding. So... it is normal that the add-on is not working actually for this nighty builds. Unfortunately, I will not update Advanced Launcher to work with those nighty build :
First, because It will be to complicated to make an add-on based on 2 python versions that will work correctly and also because I'm not really enthusiast to make 2 different version of Advanced Launcher (1 for Dharma and 1 for nighty builds). I will make Advanced Launcher compatible with the next version of XBMC when this one will be under its beta version. Actually there is too many change into nighty builds and it make non sense to try to make something correctly work on it.
im hoping it makes it to beta soon. i really want advanced launcher but alaska revisited updated requiring me to be on the 4/18/11 nightly and the skin takes precedence over the addon


- HenryFord - 2011-04-21

Just a heads up: I included the Advanced Launcher configuration in my dharma-guide.

Check it out:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99826

Critic is always welcome Smile


Enjoy!


- Angelscry - 2011-04-21

thesuffering Wrote:im hoping it makes it to beta soon. i really want advanced launcher but alaska revisited updated requiring me to be on the 4/18/11 nightly and the skin takes precedence over the addon
If some skins updates force you to use an instable and not officially released version of XBMC that do not support yet all the plugins (which works on stable version), it could be a problem. Personally I prefer to have a system that works but do not have the latest display features than a system with the latest display features but which is unstable and do not work properly. You can always install and still use the last version of Alaska Revisited (I think it is the 2.7.6) which is compatible with the stable version of XBMC until the next version of XBMC is released.


- Angelscry - 2011-04-21

HenryFord Wrote:Just a heads up: I included the Advanced Launcher configuration in my dharma-guide.

Check it out:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99826

Critic is always welcome Smile


Enjoy!
Thank you very much HenryFord for this guide. Nod


- fr500 - 2011-04-24

Hey

Ala is broken for me ATM in Windows, I get script failed addon.py and this in the log

Quote:17:55:22 T:1796 M:3240230912 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3219197952 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3218468864 ERROR: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py:27: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3218247680 NOTICE: Mode AddOn ON
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3218247680 NOTICE: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\plugin.program.advanced.launcher
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3218006016 NOTICE: Launcher: found 27 launchers
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3217965056 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3217965056 ERROR: Error Contents: ("Non-ASCII character '\\xe2' in file C:\\Program Files (x86)\\XBMC\\portable_data\\addons\\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\\resources\\scrapers\\datas\\AllGame\\datas_scraper.py on line 81, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details", ('C:\\Program Files (x86)\\XBMC\\portable_data\\addons\\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\\resources\\scrapers\\datas\\AllGame\\datas_scraper.py', 81, 0, None))
17:55:23 T:2460 M:3217960960 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\addon.py", line 19, in <module>
plugin.Main()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 105, in __init__
self._get_scrapers()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 868, in _get_scrapers
exec "import resources.scrapers.datas.%s.datas_scraper as _data_scraper" % ( self.settings[ "datas_scraper" ] )
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
SyntaxError: ("Non-ASCII character '\\xe2' in file C:\\Program Files (x86)\\XBMC\\portable_data\\addons\\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\\resources\\scrapers\\datas\\AllGame\\datas_scraper.py on line 81, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details", ('C:\\Program Files (x86)\\XBMC\\portable_data\\addons\\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\\resources\\scrapers\\datas\\AllGame\\datas_scraper.py', 81, 0, None))
17:55:23 T:1304 M:3217960960 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/
17:55:23 T:1304 M:3217956864 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/) failed
17:55:23 T:4900 M:3217956864 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn



- Angelscry - 2011-04-24

No,no, no... Advanced Launcher is not broken. You are using a GIT/unstable/non-released version of XMBC. Advanced Launcher is actually compatible with Dharma version of XBMC but not with pre-Eden version.


- DigiTech - 2011-04-24

Hi angelscry, im about to configure my wii collection, on the XBMC application launcher webpage it states that Dolphin Ver. SVN r7128 can emulate wii games with the parameters given, actually Dolphin is on version 7483, could it be a possible problem if i configure the new version with the same parameters of SVN r7128..? I know that maybe not but just to be shure! Thanks.


- Angelscry - 2011-04-24

DigiTech Wrote:Hi angelscry, im about to configure my wii collection, on the XBMC application launcher webpage it states that Dolphin Ver. SVN r7128 can emulate wii games with the parameters given, actually Dolphin is on version 7483, could it be a possible problem if i configure the new version with the same parameters of SVN r7128..? I know that maybe not but just to be shure! Thanks.
Normally there is no problem. The indicate SVN version on the WIKI page is the one that was released when I have wrote the WIKI. So, if the Dolphin devellopers have not change their command line format, it may works with SVN r7483.