Boxee Box Double App Listing

[minimeh]

Boxee Version: 1.0.3.17028

I'm building an app and seeing something unexpected.

The description has a test-app true element. I've created the proper folder structure and placed files on a thumb drive attached to the Boxee Box. When I navigate to Favorite Apps my application is listed there with thumb nail and I can select the app to run it.

All good.

After I select the app is where things go sideways a bit. On leaving the app and returning to Favorite Apps, there are now two identical entries listed for the app in Favorite Apps. Fortunately, subsequent runs don't result in yet more listing entries, it stays at two.

If I remove the app folder from the thumb drive, and then exit and return to Favorite Apps, there will still be one listing and it is active, obviously cached. The only way to rid the listing is to reboot.

Is this expected behavior? If not, any ideas on what I might be doing incorrectly? Or is this a bug in the firmware?

Here's my description.xml:

<app>
  <id>myapp</id>
  <name>My Application</name>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <description>Learning exercise</description>
  <thumb>smb://myserver/Elements (E)/boxee/apps/myapp/thumb.png</thumb>
  <media>video</media>
  <copyright>myself</copyright>
  <email>myself@null.com</email>
  <type>skin</type>
  <startWindow>14000</startWindow>
  <platform>all</platform>
  <minversion>0.9.11</minversion>
  <test-app>true</test-app>
</app>

And here is the main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<window type="window" id="14000">
    <defaultcontrol always="true">100</defaultcontrol>
    <allowoverlay>no</allowoverlay>
    <controls>
        <control type="group">
            <control type="image">
                <posx>0</posx>
                <posy>0</posy>
                <width>1280</width>
                <height>720</height>
                <texture>myapp.png</texture>
            </control>
        </control>
    </controls>
</window>

Thanks for any advice!

[circa1978]

Don't worry about it. It is only the case when testing locally on the Box. You won't have the same problem when you go live in a respository.

[minimeh]

Don't worry about it. It is only the case when testing locally on the Box. You won't have the same problem when you go live in a respository.

Cool. So everything is normal and expected.

Thanks!

[minimeh]

I noticed the same thing. It appears it is listing the copy on the Box and the copy on the media. When I remove the media, the second copy goes away.

jmilum created an issue on this in Jira: Launching a Test App from BoxeeApps results in two entries of the app shown in the list. Up until the release of the latest firmware, that issue was visible only by EA users, so thanks for bringing this back up! Now I can go cast a vote.