+- Kodi Community Forum (https://forum.kodi.tv)
+-- Forum: Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=33)
+--- Forum: Add-on Support (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=27)
+---- Forum: Game Add-ons (https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=291)
+---- Thread: [CLOSED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC (/showthread.php?tid=85724)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
443
444
445
446
447
448
449
450
451
452
453
- nekoarashi - 2010-12-27
Angelscry-any idea of what is causing me all these problems from the log I attached =(
?
- lindsayrg1 - 2010-12-27
Can anyway help me with the following problem?
I don't think it is specific to this addon but when using this addon or just the normal launcher addon by leo, I can't seem to be able to see my C drive or any other drives. When entering the addon and choosing to launch standalone app/exe, it only gives me the option of lauching .exe files from my CD drive as well as fat 32 drives. I assume it is picking up fat32 drives as it detected a 16gb USB device and not my external NTSF drives with all my media.
It's really weird because I can view my C drive which has xbmc centre installed and my other external drives by going through video and importing my different media.
Any help would be appreciated.
BTW I am using xbmc 10.0 and I am currently using aeon mq2 skin.
- htpc guy - 2010-12-27
lindsayrg1 Wrote:Can anyway help me with the following problem?
I don't think it is specific to this addon but when using this addon or just the normal launcher addon by leo, I can't seem to be able to see my C drive or any other drives. When entering the addon and choosing to launch standalone app/exe, it only gives me the option of lauching .exe files from my CD drive as well as fat 32 drives. I assume it is picking up fat32 drives as it detected a 16gb USB device and not my external NTSF drives with all my media.
It's really weird because I can view my C drive which has xbmc centre installed and my other external drives by going through video and importing my different media.
Any help would be appreciated.
BTW I am using xbmc 10.0 and I am currently using aeon mq2 skin.
This has been covered in previous posts. This only happens in windows. The best way around this is to eject the disc, close and reopen xbmc and try again. I believe its a problem with xbmc and not ALA.
- lindsayrg1 - 2010-12-27
Wow! Thanks htpc guy.
Can't believe that actually worked! Is this going to be fixed sometime soon or is the error that causes this still unknown? Also, do you know if this will continue happening everytime I plug in a usb or insert a disc? Finally you mention it's a windows issue...do you recommend formatting the system and installing some form of Linux?
- htpc guy - 2010-12-27
lindsayrg1 Wrote:Wow! Thanks htpc guy.
Can't believe that actually worked! Is this going to be fixed sometime soon or is the error that causes this still unknown? Also, do you know if this will continue happening everytime I plug in a usb or insert a disc? Finally you mention it's a windows issue...do you recommend formatting the system and installing some form of Linux?
As far as I know it just effects windows. You can install ubuntu and see how you like it. I use ubuntu and really like it but keep in mind its not for the faint of heart. You will need to learn a whole new OS and fixing issues generally calls for a lot of googling. Also I wouldn't recommend it if you are not running a Nvidia GPU.
- fr500 - 2010-12-27
Angelscry Wrote:Thank you. I have looked at it but not able to found errors related to the Advanced Launcher
That's not really a bug. The Advanced Launcher use, applications filename and and applications name to make difference between each launcher. If you add a launcher with the exact filename and name than another launcher Advanced Launcher will consider it as a duplicate and then will not add it.
Ok I will try to add this feature. It will be in the Advanced Launcher settings. The user will have the possibility to select path for all thumbs and fanarts launchers. Files will be named like this applicationname.jpg or applicationname_thumb.jpg or applicationname_fanart.jpg depending the cases. I just how to think what will be those default folders for the first Advanced Launcher start. I will try to add this for the next release.
I think you should make it so that if can't find the default thumbnail name it starts on an specified folder when looking for thumbs, that way you won't need to browse to say D:\launchers\thumbs or whatever it will always start there, then the user will have to select the appropiate file.
- Angelscry - 2010-12-27
htpc guy Wrote:I can't believe how well this launcher is coming along. It really makes game library possible. Keeping with the idea of making a games library, would it be possible to add in media flags. It could incorporate logos for Developer, Genre, Number of Players, ESRB Rating, etc... All of that info is readily available on Gamefaqs (save for the number of players). The number of players could be a dialog that pops up during the scraping process, asking for the number of players for a specific game.Yes it will be possible to add media flags to games, but it supposed a lot of work beside :
- add media flag corresponding tag to each games
- modify each data scraper to get the media flag info
- modify each skin or modded skin to display the info (not my ressort except for Alaska.Revisited MOD skin).
- htpc guy - 2010-12-27
Angelscry Wrote:Yes it will be possible to add media flags to games, but it supposed a lot of work beside :
I could add his to the todo list... but it will be not the actual priority.
- add media flag corresponding tag to each games
- modify each data scraper to get the media flag info
- modify each skin or modded skin to display the info (not my ressort except for Alaska.Revisited MOD skin).
That would be great. If this is a feature that you plan on supporting then maybe we should begin to generate some images for flags. Is there anyone else that would be interested in helping out?
- We would need a central location to host files
- volunteers to help create flags
- lists of flags that need to be generated (developer/studio flags would take the most work)
Is anyone else interested in this? Maybe I should make a separate post?
- Angelscry - 2010-12-27
nekoarashi Wrote:Angelscry-any idea of what is causing me all these problems from the log I attached =(Just look at your log file, but not really have idea. First You have those kind of errors :
?
Code:
...
19:55:23 T:3456 M:1756762112 ERROR: CPicture::CacheImage Unable to create new image special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/1/15dd22eb.jpg from image C:\Games\Emulation\Fanart\1941j.jpg
19:55:23 T:6648 M:1756098560 ERROR: CPicture::CacheImage Unable to create new image special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/9/95a5f350.jpg from image C:\Games\Emulation\Fanart\1942abl.jpg
19:55:23 T:3456 M:1756114944 ERROR: CPicture::CacheImage Unable to create new image special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/4/40bcdfa5.jpg from image C:\Games\Emulation\Fanart\1942b.jpg
19:55:24 T:1920 M:1756303360 ERROR: CPicture::CacheImage Unable to create new image special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/9/9bfac9e9.jpg from image C:\Games\Emulation\Fanart\1942w.jpg
...For the other errors it seems that your launchers.xml file is damaged and the launcher is not able to get and save the data into the launchers.xml file correctly. Delete your launchers.xml file and start from scrap.
Are you using the last version of Advanced Launcher?
- daviduco - 2010-12-27
I've added a game and it doesn't have thumb nor name, it's empty :
?When downloading a thumb manually:
21:37:43 T:4848 M:4294967295 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p\DialogSelect.xml) ------
21:37:43 T:4848 M:4294967295 ERROR: CLocalizeStrings::ClearBlock: Trying to clear non existent block C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\
21:37:45 T:4672 M:4294967295 INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--
21:37:45 T:4672 M:4294967295 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.OSError
21:37:45 T:4672 M:4294967295 ERROR: Error Contents: (0, 'Error', "E:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\tom clancy's splinter cell conviction\\src\\system\\conviction_game.exeTom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction_thumb.jpg")
21:37:45 T:4672 M:4294967295 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\addon.py", line 20, in ?
plugin.Main()
File "C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 130, in __init__
self._edit_launcher(launcher)
File "C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 548, in _edit_launcher
self._scrap_thumb_launcher(launcherName)
File "C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 340, in _scrap_thumb_launcher
_update_cache(img_url,file_path)
File "C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 1525, in _update_cache
shutil.copy2( file_path , cached_thumb )
File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\shutil.py", line 93, in copy2
copystat(src, dst)
File "special://xbmc/system/python/Lib\shutil.py", line 65, in copystat
st = os.stat(src)
OSError: (0, 'Error', "E:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\tom clancy's splinter cell conviction\\src\\system\\conviction_game.exeTom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction_thumb.jpg")
21:37:45 T:4672 M:4294967295 INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
21:37:45 T:4672 M:4294967295 INFO: Python script stopped
- Angelscry - 2010-12-27
lindsayrg1 Wrote:Wow! Thanks htpc guy.It is not a Windows issue, it as a XBMC windows version issue. You do not need to install linux on your computer. This is the 4 known methods to bypass this bug with the windows version of XBMC :
Can't believe that actually worked! Is this going to be fixed sometime soon or is the error that causes this still unknown? Also, do you know if this will continue happening everytime I plug in a usb or insert a disc? Finally you mention it's a windows issue...do you recommend formatting the system and installing some form of Linux?
1. give administrator rights to XBMC,
2. remove any CD or external drives from your system,
3. manually add sources into XBMC,
4. modify manually the launcher code.
Personally I have use the first method and it solve me the error, even after returning XBMC to standard user right.
- Angelscry - 2010-12-27
daviduco Wrote:I've added a game and it doesn't have thumb nor name, it's empty :Your game is a stand alone launcher or a rom working with an emulator? Do have activated the thumbs and fanarts automatic scrapers?
- htpc guy - 2010-12-27
Angelscry Wrote:Your game is a stand alone launcher or a rom working with an emulator? Do have activated the thumbs and fanarts automatic scrapers?
I've noticed that ALA has issues scraping for fanart/thumbs if the ROM name does not match the exact title of the game. Example, I had a rom for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that was named TMNT.nes. After I changed the name the scrapers picked it up fine.
This would not be the fault of ALA though. Just double check the file names and change them if they are incorrect. (Don't change Mame rom filenames though or else Mame will not work).
- Ryoga79 - 2010-12-27
I have two quick (and sort of related) questions, that i'm not sure are already implemented. I tried searching the thread, but since "PC" isn't a valid search term, when i searched for "PC Games" i just got every mention of "games".
What i'd like to do is create a subcategory for PC games that scrapes automatically. Since i have games installed in various places across various distros (steam, gfw live, GOG, etc), i found the easiest way to consolidate launching them was to create a single directory with batch files that point to the game executables. That way, all the "launchers" are in one place. Given that there's no "emulator" to launch the batchfiles, is there a way i can create a subcategory for PC games? Right now the way they show up in my list is as individual, single-executable launchers, so i have a list of 25 or so PC games, with "NES" in the middle of it that leads to a submenu for NES games. Is there a way i can group the PC games like the NES games are?
In addition to that, is there a way i can create a "dummy" emulator for the PC games, to recognize *.BAT as "roms"? That way i can set it up to auto-scrape my batchfiles directory to catch any new PC games that i add.
Thanks in advance, and i apologize if this has already been covered and i missed it in the thread.
- Angelscry - 2010-12-27
htpc guy Wrote:This would not be the fault of ALA though. Just double check the file names and change them if they are incorrect. (Don't change Mame rom filenames though or else Mame will not work).No... Advanced Launcher add-on is only a launcher not a roms of file manager. So Advanced Launcher will NEVER rename any rom files. If you need an add-on to manage your roms use Rom Collection Browser add-on.