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- Muyfa666 - 2012-01-05

Angelscry; this AutoIt program seems amazing. How have you learned to use it so well?

- JohnnyD2 - 2012-01-05

Hi Anglescry, I've just been testing this out after I read your note about how to launch PC games.

One thing I noticed was that if the game name was imported badly, I couldn't see any way to tell what the underlying filename is when editing the item.

Would you be able to add this in somewhere in the dialog for editing it? It would be useful to be able to reference it in the interface.

Cheers,

John

P.S. Almost forgot, when changing the name of a title, it doesn't re-scrape thumbs + fanart. This is more of an inconvenience than anything, but it's not really intuitive, and with 5 mis-labeled titles means 15 trips into the edit menus instead of 5.

- Angelscry - 2012-01-05

Muyfa666 Wrote:Angelscry; this AutoIt program seems amazing. How have you learned to use it so well?
AutoIt function are well thinked and the online documentation is well maintained : http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/

- Angelscry - 2012-01-05

JohnnyD2 Wrote:Hi Anglescry, I've just been testing this out after I read your note about how to launch PC games.

One thing I noticed was that if the game name was imported badly, I couldn't see any way to tell what the underlying filename is when editing the item.

Would you be able to add this in somewhere in the dialog for editing it? It would be useful to be able to reference it in the interface.
Item = file. An item is ALWAYS linked to a file (executable or not). You cannot change the linked file of an item. You need to delete the item and add a new one manually.

JohnnyD2 Wrote:P.S. Almost forgot, when changing the name of a title, it doesn't re-scrape thumbs + fanart. This is more of an inconvenience than anything, but it's not really intuitive, and with 5 mis-labeled titles means 15 trips into the edit menus instead of 5.
There is no reason to re-scrape thumbs and fanart when you change a name title. Some users may want to edit it without changing. Or for example you may want to re-scrap game informations from a different source without re-scrape thumbs and fanart.

- Muyfa666 - 2012-01-05

Angelscry Wrote:AutoIt function are well thinked and the online documentation is well maintained : http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/

Thanks! Also, once again, great launcher.

- JohnnyD2 - 2012-01-05

Angelscry Wrote:Item = file. An item is ALWAYS linked to a file (executable or not). You cannot change the linked file of an item. You need to delete the item and add a new one manually.

Yep, got that. What I meant was the title was Day of the Viper, underlying filename was Day of the Tentacle.lnk but I couldn't for the life of me think what it could be. I had no frame of reference. If the filename (not full path) was in the 'Edit item' Menu somewhere I could go 'oh yeah, that's XXX.lnk'.

Like how the Edit menu in Movies\TV Shows works.

Angelscry Wrote:There is no reason to re-scrape thumbs and fanart when you change a name title. Some users may want to edit it without changing. Or for example you may want to re-scrap game informations from a different source without re-scrape thumbs and fanart.

Hm. I didn't mean just changing the the title, sorry about that. What I meant was 'Import infos from [scrape site]'.

At this point it prompts for a title name, but then only re-scrapes the infos.
So I end up with a Title\Overview for Day of the Tentacle, but Screenshots and Thumbs for Day of the Viper.

I like having the ability to change them separately, but it would also be great to change them all at once - e.g. a 'Scrape error\Wrong Title' option.

Cheers,

John

- SiOuz - 2012-01-05

Any autoIT script exist for steam games ?!

- Angelscry - 2012-01-05

JohnnyD2 Wrote:Yep, got that. What I meant was the title was Day of the Viper, underlying filename was Day of the Tentacle.lnk but I couldn't for the life of me think what it could be. I had no frame of reference. If the filename (not full path) was in the 'Edit item' Menu somewhere I could go 'oh yeah, that's XXX.lnk'.

Like how the Edit menu in Movies\TV Shows works.
Ok... I understand. I will see if I can add, edit or display this information for the next release of Advanced Launcher. BTW "Day of the Tentacle" is not a game title but a game subtitle. Real title is "Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle" and that why you do not obtain the right result. Wink

JohnnyD2 Wrote:Hm. I didn't mean just changing the the title, sorry about that. What I meant was 'Import infos from [scrape site]'.

At this point it prompts for a title name, but then only re-scrapes the infos.
So I end up with a Title\Overview for Day of the Tentacle, but Screenshots and Thumbs for Day of the Viper.

I like having the ability to change them separately, but it would also be great to change them all at once - e.g. a 'Scrape error\Wrong Title' option.
Ok... I will also try to see to add an option to Import infos, thumbs and fanart all at the same time. BTW, the best way to scrap game infos is to use the semi-automatic mode and not the full-automatic one.

- Angelscry - 2012-01-05

SiOuz Wrote:Any autoIT script exist for steam games ?!
Not AutoIt but bash script : http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=848837&postcount=2310

- SiOuz - 2012-01-06

I already try this bat, but xbmc is never un-suspended.

- JohnnyD2 - 2012-01-06

SiOuz Wrote:I already try this bat, but xbmc is never un-suspended.

I had this issue, I only solved it by assigning an unused key on my remote to a script which killed Steam.

It's not a fully automated solution, but it's a one-click one, which is good enough for me.

HTH

John

- JohnnyD2 - 2012-01-06

Angelscry Wrote:Ok... I understand. I will see if I can add, edit or display this information for the next release of Advanced Launcher.

Great, it would certainly be a helpful addition.

Angelscry Wrote:BTW "Day of the Tentacle" is not a game title but a game subtitle. Real title is "Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle" and that why you do not obtain the right result. Wink

Figured that out too!

Angelscry Wrote:Ok... I will also try to see to add an option to Import infos, thumbs and fanart all at the same time. BTW, the best way to scrap game infos is to use the semi-automatic mode and not the full-automatic one.

Smashing! It would really be useful, also if you changed scrapers and wanted to re-scrape with a completely different set of sites.

Thanks for a great plugin.

Cheers,

John

- XBMCWin - 2012-01-07

I have a weird issue.

I installed Advanced Launcher for XBMC on Windows and configured a DVBViewer Launcher which works fine.

But something weird is happening: when starting DVBViewer via XBMC HDTV 1080i channels are lagging. Looks like it's having a deinterlacing issue there.

When start DVBViewer alone (directly, without XBMC running), everything works fine and there are no lags.

So does anyone have an idea?

System: Core i3-330M with GPU onboard
4GB RAM - 500GB HDD - XBMC 10.1 on Windows 7 x64!

Advanced Launcher 1.7.1.

Thanks!

- Tobby - 2012-01-07

How can I list my PS3 games? They're not executable from my PC, I just wanna list the ones I have but I find it hard to understand how this addon works.

- Angelscry - 2012-01-07

XBMCWin Wrote:I have a weird issue.

I installed Advanced Launcher for XBMC on Windows and configured a DVBViewer Launcher which works fine.

But something weird is happening: when starting DVBViewer via XBMC HDTV 1080i channels are lagging. Looks like it's having a deinterlacing issue there.

When start DVBViewer alone (directly, without XBMC running), everything works fine and there are no lags.

So does anyone have an idea?

System: Core i3-330M with GPU onboard
4GB RAM - 500GB HDD - XBMC 10.1 on Windows 7 x64!

Advanced Launcher 1.7.1.

Thanks!
What happen if you run XBMC and DVBViewer at the same time (but started independently). Do you also have lags?