Found another bug : News not working...

[ranzo]

Bug : News is not available, even when he has an internet connection :

Hi,

I am using a WLAN USB Stick and here is the bug :

1. Start PC

2. USB WLAN Stick is NOT activated (=> so no internet connectivity)

3. Start Gameex

4. go to news -> says "No news found" -> thats pretty ok

5. I go to "Other programs"

6. I start from here my USB stick (made it as an external application)

7. USB WLAN stick is started, activated and internet connectivity is there

8. I go to weather channel -> shows me weather, thats ok

9. I go to Internet Radio and select a channel -> plays it, thats ok

10. I go to news -> Again "No news available"

So the bug is that he will not check again if there is an internet connectivity or not. When he tries one time to connect and he could not, he will never check again for connectivity. Is this a known bug ?

Ränz

[Tom Speirs]

Id consider this an incredibly minor issue along with the weather one, but I had a few minues and fixed it anyway.

[ranzo]

Mhhh, not so minor since I have to completely exit GameEx and start it all over...especially a problem when I am using my arcade cab where I do not have a keyboard...but anyway, I am just trying to help so that GameEx will become one of the best front-ends we ever had !! So please interpret my posts NOT as a critic, but more as help and improvement suggestions...

Ränz

[bkenobi]

Just curious why you wouldn't just start up the WLAN card at startup? Sounds like if you were to do that, you would avoid the problem/bug...

[ranzo]

Reason :

When I put the USB stick in the autostart folder together with gameex, he will start gameex and then the usb driver. Problem : Gameex will exit to the desktop(while running in the backround) and the WLAN stick driver starts and it will not go back to gameex. I already wrote the small batch file :

-------

start /w (driver)

start (gameex)

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but it brings nothing. The system will stay on desktop. This is why I had to include it in gameex as an external application. Now I have it under "Other applications.../ Enable USB WLAN Stick". This is my workaround...

Ränz

[bkenobi]

There are other ways to start up your system that wouldn't cause this problem. One option is to use Instant Sheller to launch directly into GameEx. You could then use a startup script to launch the WLAN drivers and have it maximize GameEx once it's started. Anyway, there are a few things that could be done if you wanted to fix the driver problem instead.

[ranzo]

Hi,

Sounds interessting. What should I do exactly ? What is Instant Sheller ?

[bkenobi]

Instant Sheller is an application that Tom wrote to set up your computer to boot straight to your FE. It can do a bunch of things if you tell it to such as hide the mouse, set the background as black, automatically log in a certain user, etc. I recommend you check it out:

http://www.gameex.net/Community/InstantShe...73/Default.aspx

Then, I also recommend you use a startup script to run anything you need started at boot rather than putting those items in the startup folder. You can use any scripting language you want (batch, AutoIt, AutoHotKey, WHS, etc) as long as Windows recognizes it. I personally recommend AHK since it only takes a couple lines to do what you want.

http://www.autohotkey.com/

The script needs to launch the application, wait for it to be started, make sure GameEx is running, then tell the computer to maximize GameEx. It will look something like:

Run, C:\Program Files\WLAN Driver Dir\WLAN Driver.exe
WinWait, WLAN Driver
WinWait, GameEx
WinMaximize, GameEx

Get this script working before you try to incorporate it though!

You then need to tell Windows to run this script at startup.

1) Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc

2) Local Computer Policy -> User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Script (Logon/Logoff)

3) Double click Logon

4) Click 'Add...', navigate to your script, click 'OK'

5) Click 'OK', close Group Policies.

DONE!!!

[ranzo]

thanx !! I will give a try...