(2017-12-01, 13:52)illinx Wrote:

(2017-12-01, 05:42)ehammer85 Wrote: fairly new to the Kodi forum and was hoping for a little guidance (and i apologize if this is answered somewhere glaringly obvious) but I'm in Kodi 17.5 with the Phenemonal skin and most of the time when I launch a game from AEL and exit back to Kodi, it's like Kodi was accepting input from my gamepad.  Is there a way to avoid this?  An argument to add that minimizes Kodi once the game is launched or a setting that I'm missing?

Yes, minimize/put Kodi in windowed mode is a launcher option. I have to do this on my setup in order to prevent Kodi from stealing my input. Technically it minimizes/windows Kodi before launching the game, but this is what you want. 

(2017-12-06, 21:43)ehammer85 Wrote: As I understand it, AEL can only put Kodi in windowed mode and not minimize Kodi.  Is that accurate?  I've been playing around with cmdow but am having a hard time in implementing it in my games collection within AEL.  Any tutorials that would be helpful specific to my desire to minimize Kodi when launching a game (standalone launcher, not a ROM launcher) and maximizing Kodi again when exiting the launcher? 

Or a way to keep Kodi from "stealing input" from my gamepad as the game is open? 

Also, with the old Advanced Launcher, there was a way for me to add a Kodi Favorite as a launcher.  Is there still a way to do this? 

(2017-12-06, 21:43)ehammer85 Wrote:

(2017-12-01, 13:52)illinx Wrote:

(2017-12-01, 05:42)ehammer85 Wrote: fairly new to the Kodi forum and was hoping for a little guidance (and i apologize if this is answered somewhere glaringly obvious) but I'm in Kodi 17.5 with the Phenemonal skin and most of the time when I launch a game from AEL and exit back to Kodi, it's like Kodi was accepting input from my gamepad.  Is there a way to avoid this?  An argument to add that minimizes Kodi once the game is launched or a setting that I'm missing?

Yes, minimize/put Kodi in windowed mode is a launcher option. I have to do this on my setup in order to prevent Kodi from stealing my input. Technically it minimizes/windows Kodi before launching the game, but this is what you want.  

 As I understand it, AEL can only put Kodi in windowed mode and not minimize Kodi.  Is that accurate?  I've been playing around with cmdow but am having a hard time in implementing it in my games collection within AEL.  Any tutorials that would be helpful specific to my desire to minimize Kodi when launching a game (standalone launcher, not a ROM launcher) and maximizing Kodi again when exiting the launcher? 

Or a way to keep Kodi from "stealing input" from my gamepad as the game is open? 

Also, with the old Advanced Launcher, there was a way for me to add a Kodi Favorite as a launcher.  Is there still a way to do this? 

(2017-12-29, 17:09)aleins4u Wrote: Is AEL capable of running games off a server? I store all of my games on a HDD connected to my router and my current launcher (RCB) is capable of downloading the game before launching it. I've thus far not seen anything in AEL that would allow me to do something similar and its the only thing preventing me from switching to AEL.

(2018-01-08, 04:44)dugan26 Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4d3hpQPtiM

Hi -

I am using your great application to launch HyperSpin.

Check this issue out -

I loaded everything up on a test box and it worked like a champ.

when i loaded it onto my production box (the one connected to my Living Room TV) Kodi Minimizes and never comes back up. 

100% IDEAL:
On my test box - Kodi stays up full screen, and Hyperspin launches in front of Kodi - then when i kill HyperSpin Kodi remains in full screen so in the ideal situation (like on my test box) Kodi never minimizes or goes into window mode - it just stays in full screen and HyperSpin just becomes the active window.

On my production box i changed one of the settings that says windowed mode ON - but that acts a bit odd - Kodi goes into windowd mode and then when i exit HyperSpin after a few seconds it goes back to full screen.

What is the proper operation?

Many thanks in advance -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4d3hpQPtiM

(2017-12-30, 20:26)sagrath Wrote: Hi @Wintermute0110

I Would like to suggest a feature:

Add 2 new tags for Category on AEL.

Launchers and Roms has the following tags: Title, Year, Genre, Developer, Rating and Plot (the others tag are unique tags for each one)
But the Category has only Title, Genre, Rating and Plot

I miss Year and Developer. Because i want to create some category like "Sega Saturn" and put on tags "Title: Sega Saturn System - Year: 1994 - Genre: Console - Developer: Sega -Rating: 8 And Plot: Some blablabla". And inside this category make some specific launchers: Fighting Games, RPG Games, Adventure Games.. and this way go.. (by the way, I've already have my iso's separated)

If it's no to hard to implement this, I would apreciatted 

So, here's go some screens of what I talking abaout

Thanks in Advanced

(2018-01-13, 10:29)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2017-12-30, 20:26)sagrath Wrote: Hi @Wintermute0110

I Would like to suggest a feature:

Add 2 new tags for Category on AEL.

Launchers and Roms has the following tags: Title, Year, Genre, Developer, Rating and Plot (the others tag are unique tags for each one)
But the Category has only Title, Genre, Rating and Plot

I miss Year and Developer. Because i want to create some category like "Sega Saturn" and put on tags "Title: Sega Saturn System - Year: 1994 - Genre: Console - Developer: Sega -Rating: 8 And Plot: Some blablabla". And inside this category make some specific launchers: Fighting Games, RPG Games, Adventure Games.. and this way go.. (by the way, I've already have my iso's separated)

If it's no to hard to implement this, I would apreciatted 

So, here's go some screens of what I talking abaout

Thanks in Advanced

  
I'm working on it. I will let you know when I finish.

EDIT: finished. To test it install latest development version from Github. Make sure you download the release-0.9.8 branch and not master branch. To change the branch, use the "Branch" button before downloading AEL with the "Clone or Download" button. 

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(2018-01-13, 10:28)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2018-01-08, 04:44)dugan26 Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4d3hpQPtiM

Hi -

I am using your great application to launch HyperSpin.

Check this issue out -

I loaded everything up on a test box and it worked like a champ.

when i loaded it onto my production box (the one connected to my Living Room TV) Kodi Minimizes and never comes back up. 

100% IDEAL:
On my test box - Kodi stays up full screen, and Hyperspin launches in front of Kodi - then when i kill HyperSpin Kodi remains in full screen so in the ideal situation (like on my test box) Kodi never minimizes or goes into window mode - it just stays in full screen and HyperSpin just becomes the active window.

On my production box i changed one of the settings that says windowed mode ON - but that acts a bit odd - Kodi goes into windowd mode and then when i exit HyperSpin after a few seconds it goes back to full screen.

What is the proper operation?

Many thanks in advance -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4d3hpQPtiM

After watching your video I have the impression HyperSpin is not working properly. I mean, it looks HyperSpin launches itself as a border-less window application, as opposed to a full screen application (note that you can see the windows task bar. In fullscreen mode you cannot see the task bar). From the point of view of AEL there is nothing I can do... AEL launches the application but whether the app is launched in fullscreen, in window mode, etc. is up to the launched app configuration. Typically you control the behavior of the launched application with the launcher arguments. Please check out the HyperSpin arguments, maybe there is some argument/switch to tell HyperSpin to use fullscreen mode.