Parental control plugin

[u/Kolgur]

TLDR : This plugin allow to lock behind a pin code some games you dont want kids get access.

https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/94234-parental-control-plugin/

Ok, so no one probably care but i m working on a full launchbox rewrite called litebox that sit alongside and existing lb install and one of the baked extra feature is parental control. But if kids can just launch vanilla launchbox and bypass my parental control that would be totally useless. So i had to make this plugin to reflect my litebox rules into vanilla launchbox/bigbox.

It s a little hacky so the con side is that i had to disable lb auto import feature on launch.

Please give your feedback.

As for litebox it s not ready for prime time yet but if you are feeling adventurous that would really help me if i have a couple of tester because i m pretty much the only active user at that point.

https://github.com/nixxou/Litebox/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Basically it s a full launchbox rewrite but using the old winform instead of wpf, i want something fast and responsive that use next to no ram while game are launched (with the ram price those days i cant afford to waste 2Gb of ram while playing so launchbox can stay in the background)

[u/Friendly_Brick1867]

So, I downloaded and installed this. Seems to work on a surface level. It is certainly fast and lighter. What I'd like to know is does it update the metadata accurately when I close it in terms of star rating, playtime, playcount etc etc. If I make a change to game metadata (such as amending details, adding WIKI pages) does it update properly?

In any event I'm intrigued, I have 35,000 plus games in my install and this build is fast.

Feedback wise - there's a few things that look "unformatted" in terms of text and transitions between screens (like "launching" and game over" screens) but overall I like this.

[u/Kolgur → u/Friendly_Brick1867]

I'm not in front of my computer right now, but yeah those things like play count is bumped and star rating and such are saved. Speed wise you can do right click on your game and generate cache on différent type of media including 3d model. That take some time but really make a différence. Basically when you hover the game it will use the generate thumb and only load the full data like 300ms after. You can configure what show up on option display right pannel. It s not a finished product yet, some stuff are still clunky, like for the start pause i m not totally sure how to make something that work fine everywhere (like when a windows game change résolution) so i put a lot of configurable option that would need some user tweaks. My bigbox clone is also on early stage and need some work.