[Release][Beta] Launcher!

[Fuzzgtp]

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))

yeah will implement this soon

[Fuzzgtp]

0.2 is available in my repository now.

Fixes:
- Files should launch on Mac's now.
- There is a welcome screen on the first page now for users new to the app.
- Fixed a bug where certain apps were unable to be removed until another app was added.
- Fixed a bug causing some apps to use the same image.

[Fuzzgtp]

0.3 is available in my repository now.

- Added Support to find a thumbnail automatically based on the title you put in.
- Added a Home Button on the sidepanel that brings you to the main page of the launcher.

[potrick]

Beautiful app; I love it. Just one problem: attempting to launch a full screen program while Boxee is full screen causes the launching app and Boxee both to be not full screen anymore. Any ideas for working around this?

I'm running Ubuntu Jaunty.

[Fuzzgtp]

Beautiful app; I love it. Just one problem: attempting to launch a full screen program while Boxee is full screen causes the launching app and Boxee both to be not full screen anymore. Any ideas for working around this?

I'm running Ubuntu Jaunty.

wish I did, but being as I'm not a Linux user, I have no idea how it works on their. I actually am glad that this is app is working out of hte box for linux users.

[DPK]

I'm seeing an issue with the image search:


I like the second result returned though, haha. Note this is a search for "Firefox".

Here's a sampling from my boxee.log:

18:29:18 T:5000 M:1607835648   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://www.mrbass.org/freeware/firefox/firefox.jpg">
18:29:18 T:5000 M:1607835648   ERROR: CPicture::CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/profiles/DPK/Thumbnails/Pictures/e/e89479da.tbn from image http://www.mrbass.org/freeware/firefox/firefox.jpg"
18:29:18 T:7868 M:1607659520   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:29:18 T:5384 M:1607622656   ERROR: CPicture::CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .gif"
18:29:18 T:7868 M:1607639040   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:29:18 T:7868 M:1607639040   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://www.techworld.com/cmsdata/news/3210304/Firefox.jpg">
18:29:18 T:7868 M:1607639040   ERROR: CPicture::CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/profiles/DPK/Thumbnails/Pictures/a/afde37c0.tbn from image http://www.techworld.com/cmsdata/news/3210304/Firefox.jpg"
18:29:18 T:5384 M:1607626752   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607614464   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607614464   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/thesuggestionbox/Firefox.jpg">
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607614464   ERROR: CPicture::CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/profiles/DPK/Thumbnails/Pictures/e/ecc4a460.tbn from image http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/thesuggestionbox/Firefox.jpg"
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607598080   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607598080   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607598080   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://www.tyos.org/img/firefox.jpg">
18:29:19 T:5384 M:1607598080   ERROR: CPicture::CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/profiles/DPK/Thumbnails/Pictures/7/706198cc.tbn from image http://www.tyos.org/img/firefox.jpg"

[newcolour]

Loving the app.

Just suggestion: "Edit application" should be more that just "delete application". If I wanted to change the thumbnail or maybe add options to the launcher command (like full screen for the hulu desktop app ), I would not want to enter again title and command.

Cheers,
S.

[Fuzzgtp]

Loving the app.

Just suggestion: "Edit application" should be more that just "delete application". If I wanted to change the thumbnail or maybe add options to the launcher command (like full screen for the hulu desktop app ), I would not want to enter again title and command.

Cheers,
S.

That was the original plan, hence the name edit instead of delete. Features should get added in this week.

Dpk ran into that, but haven't narrowed down what is causinb it yet.

[DPK]

That was the original plan, hence the name edit instead of delete. Features should get added in this week.

Dpk ran into that, but haven't narrowed down what is causinb it yet.

I have a general idea of what's going on looking at my log data. Take a look at these lines with errors:

ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://www.tyos.org/img/firefox.jpg">
ERROR: CPicture::CreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/profiles/DPK/Thumbnails/Pictures/7/706198cc.tbn from image http://www.tyos.org/img/firefox.jpg"

Notice the trailing quote at the end of them? All my errors have a trailing quote. Including the one about the invalid .gif" extension. It appears your url scraping/expression/whatever is not taking that quote into account in some cases so Boxee just assumes the quote is part of the url and then it 404's on the server as a file not found.

That's my theory anyways based on just looking at my errors. I haven't looked at your code so you probably have a better idea if I sound sane or not.

[newcolour]

That was the original plan, hence the name edit instead of delete. Features should get added in this week.

Great! I look forward to that.

S.