TheHazel3yes Wrote:Which skin and emulators are you using? I'd share the images I created for DOS/GB/NES/SNES/N64/GENS/PS1, however they are made to fit Night perfectly, so no guarantee for other skins.

srsobieraj Wrote:Try opening your launchers.xml and doing a find and replace where the carriage return characters are. Replace the four squares with

Code:

&# 13;

but remove the space between # and 1. If it works, it can be coded into the next ALA release.

Angelscry Wrote:What do you mean exactly by four squares? Could you please pastebin a plot containing this character?

filigran Wrote:That particular rom plot looks like this:

Code:

<rom>
                <name>Clayfighter - Tournament edition</name>
                <filename>/storage/roms/Super Nintendo/Clayfighter - Tournament edition.smc</filename>
                <platform></platform>
                <thumb>/storage/roms/Super Nintendo/covers/Clayfighter Tournament.jpg</thumb>
                <fanart>/storage/roms/Super Nintendo/fanart/Clayfighter Tournament.gif</fanart>
                <extrafanart></extrafanart>
                <genre></genre>
                <release></release>
                <publisher>Super Nintendo</publisher>
                <gameplot>A meteor made entirely out of clay crash-lands on the grounds of a humble American circus.
                The goo from the interstellar object contaminates all of the circus' employees, transforming them into bizarre caricatures of their former selves, with new superpowers.</gameplot>
            </rom>

Angelscry Wrote:Do a better job : First create the ncdz-launcher.au3 file into ncdz.exe directory and compile it as ncdz-launcher.exe using autoit :

Code:

If $CmdLine[0] == 1 Then
    RunWait('"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount 0,"' & $CmdLine[1] & '"')
    RunWait('ncdz.exe')
    RunWait('"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -unmount 0')
EndIf
Exit 0

Then edit the launchers.xml file like this :

Code:

<application>C:\Program Files (x86)\NeoGeo_CDZ_Emulator_V20051225_win\ncdz-launcher.exe</application>
<args>"%rom%"</args>
<rompath>E:\neogeocd\roms\</rompath>
<thumbpath>E:\neogeocd\covers\</thumbpath>
<fanartpath>E:\neogeocd\fanarts\</fanartpath>
<extrafanartpath>E:\neogeocd\fanarts\</extrafanartpath>
<romext>cue</romext>
...

That's all...

srsobieraj Wrote:Aha!

Those are tab characters. Note that the text snippet you pasted has 4 tabs following the linebreak. It's not a newline character, it's 4 tab characters.

ALA won't be able to solve your problem unless you want tab characters parsed as newlines...which would give you 4 newlines in this case. XML doesn't detect newlines unless they're denoted with that HTML-ified code that I gave you last post ( &# 13; ).

IMO, just remove the tab characters and replace them with a space. If you absolutely must have the fix, then you'll still have to manually Find And Replace the tab characters with the HTML code. Even then, I'm not sure XBMC supports the newline character.

SwedishGojira Wrote:I understand that most people would want the real name, but I also know many people who are quite picky about how they name their files and that's why it would be gret with a toggle to not scrape the title in settings.

filigran Wrote:Ah, yes, of course!
It's the autoindent that inputs the tabs when I hit Return. But anyhoo, I tried adding the ASCII LF and CR (#13 and #10), but they both just came out as text, not translated to their respective ASCII meanings, so I guess XBMC doesn't parse them when the text comes from addons? 'Cause it seems to do so when they are part of a movie plot (atleast &# x0a). But then again, I can have autoindent tabs in the parsed nfos too, at the start of the new line, with one empty line in between, and they still show up as they should; like I want in the screenshot. Guess that could be because they're added to a db, and thus saved differently?

Shadowrunner Wrote:Probably the best thing in the meantime is to create an image for each file that states which disc it is? Gonna have to start looking into the options myself :\

• If emulators are not able to automatically switch from one CD to another, it is better to create an item for each CD (and so in this case the title must contain the CD number).
  
• But if emulators are able to automatically switch from one CD to another, it is not necessary to have an item for each CD. In this case an item for the first CD is enough (and in this case we can use the real title).
  

xmurrx Wrote:i am using the night skin. I would be so great full if you could share them. Im using the same ones you have listed as well

also, thanks for those links, very helpful too

Angelscry Wrote:If think we have also to take into account how the emulators manage multi-CD support.

• If emulators are not able to automatically switch from one CD to another, it is better to create an item for each CD (and so in this case the title must contain the CD number).
  
• But if emulators are able to automatically switch from one CD to another, it is not necessary to have an item for each CD. In this case an item for the first CD is enough (and in this case we can use the real title).
  

As you see there is not 1 way to do it. And it also depend of the preferences of each users to manage there collections. So... the actually way is not perfect (you have to edit the title, or manually delete some items) but it allows to cover all the possibly. I prefer flexibility.

filigran Wrote:Well, if you mean 'work' as in 'produces line breaks', then no, it just prints the characters. If you mean 'work' as in 'prints the chars so that they can be parsed and replaced by newlines' then yes, it works. I also tried with &# 10;, LF, and that produced the same results.



The characters aren't in the launchers.xml file, they only appear in XBMC, and only after using nano to edit the file apparently, using geany there are no squares (but, alas, no newlines either).

This is what I mean:


That particular rom plot looks like this:

Code:

<rom>
                <name>Clayfighter - Tournament edition</name>
                <filename>/storage/roms/Super Nintendo/Clayfighter - Tournament edition.smc</filename>
                <platform></platform>
                <thumb>/storage/roms/Super Nintendo/covers/Clayfighter Tournament.jpg</thumb>
                <fanart>/storage/roms/Super Nintendo/fanart/Clayfighter Tournament.gif</fanart>
                <extrafanart></extrafanart>
                <genre></genre>
                <release></release>
                <publisher>Super Nintendo</publisher>
                <gameplot>A meteor made entirely out of clay crash-lands on the grounds of a humble American circus.
                The goo from the interstellar object contaminates all of the circus' employees, transforming them into bizarre caricatures of their former selves, with new superpowers.</gameplot>
            </rom>

I was going to put it up on pastebin too, but I opened the file in geany to check if they appeared there (they didn't), then tried adding a few new lines and saved the file, and now I can't reproduce it.. seems to be something intermittent (the worst errors, eh). Can't be sure if it's XBMC, your addon or nano, but that's not really important. Besides, my money is on nano anyway.

The important thing is, I want to produce this:


And the million dollar question: is it possible?

To sum up: I get squares sometimes, but they are only seen in XBMC, in the files there are only spaces, tabs and unix LF's. If I put the ASCII codes for LF and CR in there, the ASCII codes themselves are printed out, not their meaning. Guessing they can be parsed?

Btw: man, it's like a chat in here. I asked this yesterday, and I'm already five pages behind! Nice to see some activity though.

Angelscry Wrote:Plots that are into the launchers.xml file are passed exactly like this as into XBMC as ListItem.Plot value. Advanced Launcher did not make any formating modification on the Plot.

Eldorado Wrote:Those are tab characters

Easy quick fix - download UltraEdit, open the XML file in it, go to Format -> Tabs to Spaces

filigran Wrote:Weird that it works for one but not the other then .. guess I will have to live with it, unless someone can think of a way to solve it. Not that often you read the plot for the games, it's just neat to have there.



Actually, I have nano set up that way too, but I guess the feature isn't perfect.

Odd though that XBMC doesn't just display them as tabs (or remove them, which seems to be the case most of the time) ... anyhoo. Issue really being I want empty lines in my plots, but it appears that cannot be solved.