[Blaxxor]

I've got a feature idea. Could you add launcher id tag to the launcher itself and a way to accept arguments? If you do so skis with support for custom shortcuts on the home menu could have a way to launch common used launchers from the home menu.

Example, in shade now you can create a home screen shorcut to the script (plugin.program.advanced.launcher) if there was the id. and an option to parse arguments you could create a shortcut to the script plugin.program.advanced.launcher("1") for example and that would launch the app with id=1. If no arguments are passed then the normal app view would show.

What do you think?

This feature is already supported by the addon

• Go into Advanced Launcher
  
• Select a launcher
  
• Go into launcher context menu and select "Add to Favorite" option
  
• Go into you skin sub menu option and select this Favorite as submenu.
  

It will automatically get the launcher name, launcher thumbs and put it as submenu. It is how it works for me with Alaska.Revisited. This feature is not working for roms, only for launchers. Here are the corresponding code lines of the guisettings.xml file :

Code:

<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonname_2">Boxee</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonimage_2">/media/emulation/launchers/thumbs/Boxee_thumb.jpg</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonpath_2">RunPlugin(plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?Boxee,return)</setting>

I know this is an old post, but I can't get this to work.

I'm adding the exefile in Advanced Launcher, add it as a favorite. Then entering Custom homemenu settings, add my exefile which I added I as a favorite.

It shows upp on the homescreen but when I try to launch it it enter the menubotton as a folder and all I can do is to press backbutton.

Also using Alaska Revisited.

[Angelscry]

I've got a feature idea. Could you add launcher id tag to the launcher itself and a way to accept arguments? If you do so skis with support for custom shortcuts on the home menu could have a way to launch common used launchers from the home menu.

Example, in shade now you can create a home screen shorcut to the script (plugin.program.advanced.launcher) if there was the id. and an option to parse arguments you could create a shortcut to the script plugin.program.advanced.launcher("1") for example and that would launch the app with id=1. If no arguments are passed then the normal app view would show.

What do you think?

This feature is already supported by the addon

• Go into Advanced Launcher
  
• Select a launcher
  
• Go into launcher context menu and select "Add to Favorite" option
  
• Go into you skin sub menu option and select this Favorite as submenu.
  

It will automatically get the launcher name, launcher thumbs and put it as submenu. It is how it works for me with Alaska.Revisited. This feature is not working for roms, only for launchers. Here are the corresponding code lines of the guisettings.xml file :

Code:

<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonname_2">Boxee</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonimage_2">/media/emulation/launchers/thumbs/Boxee_thumb.jpg</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonpath_2">RunPlugin(plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?Boxee,return)</setting>

I know this is an old post, but I can't get this to work.

I'm adding the exefile in Advanced Launcher, add it as a favorite. Then entering Custom homemenu settings, add my exefile which I added I as a favorite.

It shows upp on the homescreen but when I try to launch it it enter the menubotton as a folder and all I can do is to press backbutton.

Also using Alaska Revisited.

Uhhh... yes that quite old and may not be functionnal anymore since several version of Advanced Launcher now. Look at this tutorial, it will show you how simply create an executable launcher and add it as custom menu entry : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8edJlmG6lw

[Blaxxor]

This feature is already supported by the addon

• Go into Advanced Launcher
  
• Select a launcher
  
• Go into launcher context menu and select "Add to Favorite" option
  
• Go into you skin sub menu option and select this Favorite as submenu.
  

It will automatically get the launcher name, launcher thumbs and put it as submenu. It is how it works for me with Alaska.Revisited. This feature is not working for roms, only for launchers. Here are the corresponding code lines of the guisettings.xml file :

Code:

<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonname_2">Boxee</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonimage_2">/media/emulation/launchers/thumbs/Boxee_thumb.jpg</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.alaska.revisited.programbuttonpath_2">RunPlugin(plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?Boxee,return)</setting>

I know this is an old post, but I can't get this to work.

I'm adding the exefile in Advanced Launcher, add it as a favorite. Then entering Custom homemenu settings, add my exefile which I added I as a favorite.

It shows upp on the homescreen but when I try to launch it it enter the menubotton as a folder and all I can do is to press backbutton.

Also using Alaska Revisited.

Uhhh... yes that quite old and may not be functionnal anymore since several version of Advanced Launcher now. Look at this tutorial, it will show you how simply create an executable launcher and add it as custom menu entry : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8edJlmG6lw

That works just fine. But adding the Executable to the Homemenu as you previously did with Boxee doesn't work at all. It just opens as a folder.

Does that work for you today or have that feature been removed?

Thanks

Stellan

[Angelscry]

I know this is an old post, but I can't get this to work.

I'm adding the exefile in Advanced Launcher, add it as a favorite. Then entering Custom homemenu settings, add my exefile which I added I as a favorite.

It shows upp on the homescreen but when I try to launch it it enter the menubotton as a folder and all I can do is to press backbutton.

Also using Alaska Revisited.

Uhhh... yes that quite old and may not be functionnal anymore since several version of Advanced Launcher now. Look at this tutorial, it will show you how simply create an executable launcher and add it as custom menu entry : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8edJlmG6lw

That works just fine. But adding the Executable to the Homemenu as you previously did with Boxee doesn't work at all. It just opens as a folder.

Does that work for you today or have that feature been removed?

Thanks

Stellan

Could you please be more clear? That work fine... but not?!!! Nothing have been removed. Which version of XBMC are you using? Which version of Advanced Launcher are you using? Which skin are you using? Could you also please post here the content of your launchers.xml file to see if you have correctly configured your launcher?

[Blaxxor]

Uhhh... yes that quite old and may not be functionnal anymore since several version of Advanced Launcher now. Look at this tutorial, it will show you how simply create an executable launcher and add it as custom menu entry : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8edJlmG6lw

That works just fine. But adding the Executable to the Homemenu as you previously did with Boxee doesn't work at all. It just opens as a folder.

Does that work for you today or have that feature been removed?

Thanks

Stellan

Could you please be more clear? That work fine... but not?!!! Nothing have been removed. Which version of XBMC are you using? Which version of Advanced Launcher are you using? Which skin are you using? Could you also please post here the content of your launchers.xml file to see if you have correctly configured your launcher?

Hmmm... maybe I'm beeing tricked by that Boxee image.

It works fine adding the Executable as a submenu for the Appmenu/folder or whatever it's called

But adding a separate permanent button, not a submenubutton, just like the App, Movie, Music, Settings, Weatherbuttons. That doesn't work for me. But it caught me that maybe that's not possible?

//Stellan

[Angelscry]

That works just fine. But adding the Executable to the Homemenu as you previously did with Boxee doesn't work at all. It just opens as a folder.

Does that work for you today or have that feature been removed?

Thanks

Stellan

Could you please be more clear? That work fine... but not?!!! Nothing have been removed. Which version of XBMC are you using? Which version of Advanced Launcher are you using? Which skin are you using? Could you also please post here the content of your launchers.xml file to see if you have correctly configured your launcher?

Hmmm... maybe I'm beeing tricked by that Boxee image.

It works fine adding the Executable as a submenu for the Appmenu/folder or whatever it's called

But adding a separate permanent button, not a submenubutton, just like the App, Movie, Music, Settings, Weatherbuttons. That doesn't work for me. But it caught me that maybe that's not possible?

//Stellan

No that's work : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.p...1204#p1204

[Middle]

Terminating steam forcefully is not good, instead try shutting down steam by issuing "steam -shutdown" like this (i do the same with batch files)

Well if you read the code, you will see that
the first one only closes open windows and keep steam running in background
and the second one shutdown.

Code:

Run ('"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -shutdown', "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\" )

[Blaxxor]

Hmmm... maybe I'm beeing tricked by that Boxee image.

It works fine adding the Executable as a submenu for the Appmenu/folder or whatever it's called

But adding a separate permanent button, not a submenubutton, just like the App, Movie, Music, Settings, Weatherbuttons. That doesn't work for me. But it caught me that maybe that's not possible?

//Stellan

No that's work : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.p...1204#p1204

I don't get it to work.

This is how it looks in my XBMC.

Added the executable as favorite. The link works fine when adding it as a submenu for "App" so the link is Ok as far as I know.


This it how it looks on my mainscreen when starting XBMC.


And this is what happens when pressing the button


XBMC Dharma (11.0)
Advanced Launcher (1.7.6)
Alaska Revisited (3.0.3)

Really appreciating that you're trying to help me

//Stellan

[Angelscry]

Ok, first, last version of Advanced Launcher is 1.9.1 not 1.7.6. I do not make any support on deprecated versions. So, make the update, please.

Next, I'm not sure, but I think you have created a file launcher instead of a stand-alone launcher (I need the launchers.xml file content to confirm). So, when you start the launcher from XBMC it display the item directory (but here empty) and do not start the selected application.

[Blaxxor]

Ok, first, last version of Advanced Launcher is 1.9.1 not 1.7.6. I do not make any support on deprecated versions. So, make the update, please.

Next, I'm not sure, but I think you have created a file launcher instead of a stand-alone launcher (I need the launchers.xml file content to confirm). So, when you start the launcher from XBMC it display the item directory (but here empty) and do not start the selected application.

I updated the launcher to the version you wanted (1.9.1) I downloaded the old one from within XBMC itself but it's always good to be updated

Here's my launcher.xml file

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<launchers>
    <launcher>
        <id>0aeb448ff82bda9b1c7b0944cc5c49c4</id>
        <name>Maximus Arcade</name>
        <application>R:\Maximus Arcade\Maximus Arcade.exe</application>
        <args></args>
        <rompath></rompath>
        <thumbpath>C:\</thumbpath>
        <fanartpath>C:\</fanartpath>
        <custompath>C:\</custompath>
        <romext></romext>
        <platform>IBM PC Compatible</platform>
        <thumb>R:\Maximus Arcade\maximuslogo.jpg</thumb>
        <fanart></fanart>
        <genre></genre>
        <release></release>
        <publisher></publisher>
        <launcherplot></launcherplot>
        <minimize>true</minimize>
        <lnk>true</lnk>
        <roms>
        </roms>
    </launcher>
</launchers>

Please come back and tell me that I've done something stupid that's easy to fix

//Stellan

[Angelscry]

Ok, first, last version of Advanced Launcher is 1.9.1 not 1.7.6. I do not make any support on deprecated versions. So, make the update, please.

Next, I'm not sure, but I think you have created a file launcher instead of a stand-alone launcher (I need the launchers.xml file content to confirm). So, when you start the launcher from XBMC it display the item directory (but here empty) and do not start the selected application.

I updated the launcher to the version you wanted (1.9.1) I downloaded the old one from within XBMC itself but it's always good to be updated

Here's my launcher.xml file

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<launchers>
    <launcher>
        <id>0aeb448ff82bda9b1c7b0944cc5c49c4</id>
        <name>Maximus Arcade</name>
        <application>R:\Maximus Arcade\Maximus Arcade.exe</application>
        <args></args>
        <rompath></rompath>
        <thumbpath>C:\</thumbpath>
        <fanartpath>C:\</fanartpath>
        <custompath>C:\</custompath>
        <romext></romext>
        <platform>IBM PC Compatible</platform>
        <thumb>R:\Maximus Arcade\maximuslogo.jpg</thumb>
        <fanart></fanart>
        <genre></genre>
        <release></release>
        <publisher></publisher>
        <launcherplot></launcherplot>
        <minimize>true</minimize>
        <lnk>true</lnk>
        <roms>
        </roms>
    </launcher>
</launchers>

Please come back and tell me that I've done something stupid that's easy to fix

//Stellan

Humm... content of launchers.xml file seems correct. Have you try with another skin?

[Blaxxor]

Ok, first, last version of Advanced Launcher is 1.9.1 not 1.7.6. I do not make any support on deprecated versions. So, make the update, please.

Next, I'm not sure, but I think you have created a file launcher instead of a stand-alone launcher (I need the launchers.xml file content to confirm). So, when you start the launcher from XBMC it display the item directory (but here empty) and do not start the selected application.

I updated the launcher to the version you wanted (1.9.1) I downloaded the old one from within XBMC itself but it's always good to be updated

Here's my launcher.xml file

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<launchers>
    <launcher>
        <id>0aeb448ff82bda9b1c7b0944cc5c49c4</id>
        <name>Maximus Arcade</name>
        <application>R:\Maximus Arcade\Maximus Arcade.exe</application>
        <args></args>
        <rompath></rompath>
        <thumbpath>C:\</thumbpath>
        <fanartpath>C:\</fanartpath>
        <custompath>C:\</custompath>
        <romext></romext>
        <platform>IBM PC Compatible</platform>
        <thumb>R:\Maximus Arcade\maximuslogo.jpg</thumb>
        <fanart></fanart>
        <genre></genre>
        <release></release>
        <publisher></publisher>
        <launcherplot></launcherplot>
        <minimize>true</minimize>
        <lnk>true</lnk>
        <roms>
        </roms>
    </launcher>
</launchers>

Please come back and tell me that I've done something stupid that's easy to fix

//Stellan

Humm... content of launchers.xml file seems correct. Have you try with another skin?

It actually works in Aeon Nox but not in Alaska Revisited. I started to suspect that that was the case.

Too bad. What version of Alaska are you using?

I don't feel like changing skin :/ Seems like Alaska is not updated any longer.

//Stellan

[Angelscry]

Ok, so it's an Alaska related problem. I think because Alaska have not been updated since a long time, it is not fully compatible with Eden version of XBMC... or more precisely Alaska do not manage correctly favourites generated by XBMC.

Personnaly, I do not use Alsaka anymore

The only way I see now for your to correct this, is to manually edit files. Once you have created your favourite with Advanced Launcher, could you please post here the content of your xbmc/userdata/favourites.xml file to see how the generated favourites looks like?

[Blaxxor]

Ok, so it's an Alaska related problem. I think because Alaska have not been updated since a long time, it is not fully compatible with Eden version of XBMC... or more precisely Alaska do not manage correctly favourites generated by XBMC.

Personnaly, I do not use Alsaka anymore

The only way I see now for your to correct this, is to manually edit files. Once you have created your favourite with Advanced Launcher, could you please post here the content of your xbmc/userdata/favourites.xml file to see how the generated favourites looks like?

Thanks for helping This is how my favorites.xml looks like.

Code:

<favourites>
    <favourite name="Uppsättningar">ActivateWindow(10025,&quot;videodb://1/7/&quot;)</favourite>
    <favourite name="Maximus Arcade" thumb="R:\Maximus Arcade\maximuslogo.jpg">PlayMedia(&quot;plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?0aeb448ff82bda9b1c7b0944cc5c49c4&quot;)</favourite>
</favourites>

//Stellan

[Angelscry]

Ok.. favourites code is correct :

Code:

...
PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?0aeb448ff82bda9b1c7b0944cc5c49c4")
...

Now we have to see if the sub-menu entry automatically created by Alsaka is under the same form. Could you please now post here the content of your xbmc/userdata/guisettings.xml file? I'm nor sure you will be able to post here the entire content of the file, so use pastebin service to do this and post the corresponding URL here.