[Release][Beta] Launcher!

[Fuzzgtp]

Launch any application from inside Boxee!





Right now its a little annoying, as you have to type in all the info you need (like the location of the file and the image.)

Future Releases:
-Filebrowser for selecting the file to launch
-Search Google Images for the title you put in and pull up a list of images for you to use as thumbnails.
-Get rid of the ugly 'add' button (ewe)
-Whatever cool feature you think of.


Would love to hear feedback from users (specially Linux and Mac users, as I'm not sure if this will work but it should in theory).

As always, get it from my All-In-One Repository at http://www.fuzzthed.com

A great write up courtesy of potrick: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-bo...game-launcher/

[vdubeau]

Just tried this on my Mac. I just get a blank screen.

[Fuzzgtp]

Ah its beta, so I guess I need to put in a description. Push left on the first page to pull up the menu.

[vdubeau]

That worked. Guess I've gotten so used to Boxee always showing the side menu when you go into something that other things look broken if they don't . No reflection on you though. I'll play around with this tomorrow on the Mac and report back any issues problems. One question. If I add an application, should I the .app extension? It's generally hidden to users but it's there.

[newcolour]

Great app, Fuzz! Very smart thinking!

I have tried it on my jaunty linux box with the latest beta and it works great (added chrome app).

I look forward to the future releases.

Cheers,
S.

[cogadh]

Nice! Will definitely be giving this a shot later tonight.

[Fuzzgtp]

Originally Posted by vdubeau

That worked. Guess I've gotten so used to Boxee always showing the side menu when you go into something that other things look broken if they don't . No reflection on you though. I'll play around with this tomorrow on the Mac and report back any issues problems. One question. If I add an application, should I the .app extension? It's generally hidden to users but it's there.

Probably, but you'll have to tryboth and let me know.

[nostrodamus]

good and very useful option is not always necessary to walk out

[manifestdestiny]

awesome app as usual! thanks for this

[StevenR]

I've had a couple of problems using it on my Mac:
1) Clicking the thumbnail for an added application (added as "/Applications/AppName.app") did nothing. I did some tests and found that if I edited the main.xml and changed the line:

os.system ('"%s"' % (link))

to

os.system ('open "%s"' % (link))

it worked. Obviously this would only need to be done for the Mac. You could probably do something like this. Put this code somewhere at the beginning of your code:

import platform

isMac = False

if "Darwin" in platform.platform(1,1):
	isMac = True;

and then when you open the application use this:

if isMac:
    os.system ('open "%s"' % (link))
else:
    os.system ('"%s"' % (link))