[mariano198596]

You can put a folder with shortcuts and PC games that will be upgrading alone, instead of putting one by one?

Que?

Can you explain what you are trying to achieve?

insted of adding one shortcut at a time, can I copy a folder's address and the program will update the intarface alone?

Lo que queria decir es si hay alguna forma de configurar para que tome los acceso directo de los juegos de una carpeta en vez de crear uno por uno

disculpen que no hablo ingles lo entiendo pero no tengo forma de expresarme para que me entiendan.

Saludos!

[atsumori]

Is anyone else finding that the GameFAQs scraper no longer works properly? I've had it drop in and out intermittently in the past, but I've got a feeling that the issue might be more permanent this time.

You'll get blocked if you autoscrape but if you go through one by one you should be able to scrape no problem. Just set Advanced Launcher scraper settings to "None" and then once all the games have been added, scrape the information through the game info menu.

I have found an issue with the google scrapers and likely other scrapers. It seems there are some forbidden characters (for example "%") that when included in the name will cause the scrape to fail (at least for images). This is incredibly annoying.

[Magic815]

So I had a couple questions regarding Advanced Launcher (one general and one specific).

First, I see old posts referencing a Wiki - does one exist anymore? I see that the latest version has to be pulled from GitHub, but outside of this "closed" thread, I don't see where further discussions are held. Is there an outside forum or website that is now the default place for actual development and discussion of this addon?

And then more specifically, I'm trying to get some help with launching a specific emulator game from PCSX2. I see previous posts mention using the '--nogui' command to make sure that when "esc" is pressed, the emulator is completely closed out (as opposed to just the game emulator window).

Is this something I can add to the launcher attributes inside Kodi/Advanced Launcher? Or does that need to be put into a script/bat file/etc, and then that file is what gets called by Advanced Launcher?

The reason I ask is that for my emulator games through Dolphin, all I have to do is add "/b /e" before the ROM call-out and it will successfully exit out and go back into Kodi when I'm done playing the game. Could I do something similar with PCSX2 games where I somehow utilize "/b /e" and "--nogui" so that it will do the same thing? If anyone has the exact syntax, I'm all ears!

[UsefulG]

You can put a folder with shortcuts and PC games that will be upgrading alone, instead of putting one by one?

Que?

Can you explain what you are trying to achieve?

insted of adding one shortcut at a time, can I copy a folder's address and the program will update the intarface alone?

Lo que queria decir es si hay alguna forma de configurar para que tome los acceso directo de los juegos de una carpeta en vez de crear uno por uno

disculpen que no hablo ingles lo entiendo pero no tengo forma de expresarme para que me entiendan.

Saludos!

Lo siento, hablo Español un poco.

En Ingles:

I launch all my PC games (Steam/Origin) from a single launcher. This is a .bat file which uses shortcuts to each game which are stored in a single folder and can then be scraped into Advanced Launcher.

I got it from these forums and for the life of me I can't find it again. I will upload the .bat file when I get to my PC.

Found it! Just follow these instructions http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...#pid848837

[KidVulcan]

Hi, first of amazing work. I love this addon! I saw someone ells mention using this to launch MUGEN but I couldn't find the results. I have an .exe on my Desktop called "NMTE.exe" but when I try to point AdvancedLauncher there I cant find the program?? Pleas help
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xpsws2wryg2m02...d.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1a8zrsw6qtht7k/exe.png?dl=0

EDIT: I got it to work

[mariano198596]

Que?

Can you explain what you are trying to achieve?

insted of adding one shortcut at a time, can I copy a folder's address and the program will update the intarface alone?

Lo que queria decir es si hay alguna forma de configurar para que tome los acceso directo de los juegos de una carpeta en vez de crear uno por uno

disculpen que no hablo ingles lo entiendo pero no tengo forma de expresarme para que me entiendan.

Saludos!

Lo siento, hablo Español un poco.

En Ingles:

I launch all my PC games (Steam/Origin) from a single launcher. This is a .bat file which uses shortcuts to each game which are stored in a single folder and can then be scraped into Advanced Launcher.

I got it from these forums and for the life of me I can't find it again. I will upload the .bat file when I get to my PC.

Found it! Just follow these instructions http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...#pid848837

muchisimas gracias ya los pude agregar todos los juegos de pc desde una carpeta automaticamente!

[mccorkled]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the second larger box that says it is "opening stream"



Also, why is the advanced launcher icon not showing up?

Thanks

[UsefulG]

insted of adding one shortcut at a time, can I copy a folder's address and the program will update the intarface alone?

Lo que queria decir es si hay alguna forma de configurar para que tome los acceso directo de los juegos de una carpeta en vez de crear uno por uno

disculpen que no hablo ingles lo entiendo pero no tengo forma de expresarme para que me entiendan.

Saludos!

Lo siento, hablo Español un poco.

En Ingles:

I launch all my PC games (Steam/Origin) from a single launcher. This is a .bat file which uses shortcuts to each game which are stored in a single folder and can then be scraped into Advanced Launcher.

I got it from these forums and for the life of me I can't find it again. I will upload the .bat file when I get to my PC.

Found it! Just follow these instructions http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...#pid848837

muchisimas gracias ya los pude agregar todos los juegos de pc desde una carpeta automaticamente!

Fantastico! De nada.

[Frenchtoast]

Hello guys,

I have been looking for few weeks now but can't find any solution.

On my Amazon fire Tv running isengard (or jarvis) non rooted when I try to setup advanced launcher I get the errors :

"Cannot create backup" , "Cannot create launchers.xml"

Help please:

Code:

19:29:00 T:1768512792  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:00 T:1768512792  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:01 T:1768512792  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:01 T:1768512792  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Advanced Launcher root folder > Categories list
19:29:01 T:1768513304  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: %%ADD%% category folder > Launcher list
19:29:09 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Save launchers.xml file
19:29:09 T:1551902208   ERROR: container.refresh called with invalid number of parameters (should be: 1, is 0)
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:55 T:1768854040  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Save launchers.xml file
19:29:55 T:1561176536   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
                                            Error Contents: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/storage/extUsb/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.xbmc.debug.log/addon.py", line 198, in <module>
                                                Uploader = LogUploader()
                                              File "/storage/extUsb/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.xbmc.debug.log/addon.py", line 58, in __init__
                                                self.report_mail(self.email_address, uploaded_logs)
                                              File "/storage/extUsb/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.xbmc.debug.log/addon.py", line 129, in report_mail
                                                response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 391, in open
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1161, in http_open
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1136, in do_open
                                            URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:55 T:1551902208   ERROR: Control 50 in window 10001 has been asked to focus, but it can't
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: default category folder > Launcher list
19:29:55 T:1725680608  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Advanced Launcher root folder > Categories list
19:29:58 T:1726294968  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:29:59 T:1576998536   ERROR: Unable to find plugin
19:29:59 T:1551902208   ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting plugin://

I have tried through installing Jarvis to move kodi database to external usb. It worked very well and I thought that advanced launchers wouldn't have any more permissions restriction as I thought it was the problem here. Still having the same issue Help please it drives me mad !

[Jachin99]

Is it possible to use a high res image for thumbnails or will the program scale them down every time? I am trying to create a Netflix launcher, and I've tried several images from around the internet but they all end up looking chopy or distorted.

[onlinespending]

Hello guys,

I have been looking for few weeks now but can't find any solution.

On my Amazon fire Tv running isengard (or jarvis) non rooted when I try to setup advanced launcher I get the errors :

"Cannot create backup" , "Cannot create launchers.xml"

Help please:

Code:

19:29:00 T:1768512792  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:00 T:1768512792  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:01 T:1768512792  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:01 T:1768512792  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Advanced Launcher root folder > Categories list
19:29:01 T:1768513304  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:07 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: %%ADD%% category folder > Launcher list
19:29:09 T:1777690168  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Save launchers.xml file
19:29:09 T:1551902208   ERROR: container.refresh called with invalid number of parameters (should be: 1, is 0)
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:14 T:1768854040  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:55 T:1768854040  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Save launchers.xml file
19:29:55 T:1561176536   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
                                            Error Contents: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/storage/extUsb/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.xbmc.debug.log/addon.py", line 198, in <module>
                                                Uploader = LogUploader()
                                              File "/storage/extUsb/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.xbmc.debug.log/addon.py", line 58, in __init__
                                                self.report_mail(self.email_address, uploaded_logs)
                                              File "/storage/extUsb/kodi/.kodi/addons/script.xbmc.debug.log/addon.py", line 129, in report_mail
                                                response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 391, in open
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1161, in http_open
                                              File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1136, in do_open
                                            URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:55 T:1551902208   ERROR: Control 50 in window 10001 has been asked to focus, but it can't
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:55 T:1759678192  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: default category folder > Launcher list
19:29:55 T:1725680608  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
19:29:58 T:1725815384  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Advanced Launcher root folder > Categories list
19:29:58 T:1726294968  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
19:29:59 T:1576998536   ERROR: Unable to find plugin
19:29:59 T:1551902208   ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting plugin://

I have tried through installing Jarvis to move kodi database to external usb. It worked very well and I thought that advanced launchers wouldn't have any more permissions restriction as I thought it was the problem here. Still having the same issue Help please it drives me mad !

Yeah, I mentioned these same issues a year ago when I tried using Advanced Launcher on the Fire TV. Brought them to the attention of the developer, Angelscry, but sadly it looks like they haven't been fixed.

[2nzy]

Which "Opening Stream" message box are you talking about? How do you do to obtain it? Which version of XBMC are your using? With wich skin?

Ok... I have found what you are talking about. The problem comes from the XBMC favourite script that is not able to create correct favourite for Advanced Launcher items. The script is not able to make difference between media and application. To fix this you will have to edit the xbmc/userdata/favourites.xml file and replace Advanced Launcher favourites PlayMedia() calls by RunPlugin() calls, like this :

Code:

...
<favourite name="Darksiders (AL Item)" thumb="/run/media/angelscry/GWENAEL/Emulation/advanced launcher/gaika/darksiders_thumb.jpg">PlayMedia(&quot;plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?fd4007c4866c0c7f5cc0f9e1037ae85c/7688100b4b8d75aa5206f09a03ec046e&quot;)</favourite>
...

to this :

Code:

...
<favourite name="Darksiders (AL Item)" thumb="/run/media/angelscry/GWENAEL/Emulation/advanced launcher/gaika/darksiders_thumb.jpg">RunPlugin(&quot;plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?fd4007c4866c0c7f5cc0f9e1037ae85c/7688100b4b8d75aa5206f09a03ec046e&quot;)</favourite>
...

Thanks much, that takes care of the problem. My apologies for not posting more info initially, but since I'd always seen this message I thought it was a designed "feature" of Adv Launcher.

As a note for anyone else who runs into this there's a little more to "cleaning up" the problem.

What I was doing was using favorites to create custom main menu items in Aeon Nox using the following procedure:

• Create an Advanced Launcher item
  
• Add this item to Favorites
  
• Create a menu entry from this Favorite
  
• Remove the item from the Favorites list so that it doesn't show up in the normal favorites menu list
  

Of course to fix the call, I had to add the launchers back as favorites, edit Favorites.xml, and then recreate the menu item. This all worked fine, but when I went to Advanced Launcher to remove the items from the favorites list, Advanced Launcher no longer knew that they were in the favorites list. So, my new procedure is:

• Create an item in Advanced Launcher
  
• Add the item to Favorites
  
• Edit Favorites.xml and change PlayMedia to RunPlugin
  
• Create a menu entry from the Favorite
  
• Re-edit Favorites.xml and remove the item from favorites
  

This works great. Thanks again for the help.

cant you just make this work properly

[markzilla]

i am really dissapointed in advanced launcher.

All I want to use it for is to launch a bash script, but that stupid "opening stream" message will not go away. I have tried everything, from modifying my favourites (PlayMedia > RunPlugin) and even removed the favourite from favourties.xml. I have created new launchers, everything.

As soon as you add the launcher to favourites, this silly message shows up.

Please, I know this thread is closed, but please get rid of that damn message!

[UsefulG]

@markzilla Look in the Settings for AL there is a show notification option which hides the opening stream/ launching popup.

[markzilla]

@UsefulG Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the option "Activate 'Launching Application' notification" is deselected, as in "not doing that" but it is doing that.

Please forgive my earlier post - I was tired and grumpy. This is an awesome plugin and I'll just learn to live with a silly message that doesn't close when the stream starts lol. I'll just keep closing it, its not that bad.