Avalaunch.xml v0.01 :D

[nimbles]

Ok I've done a heavily Annotated avalaunch.xml file find it here (http://geocities.com/xbdvdrg/avalaunch.xml), or just right click the link and download.

For those who want to edit their xml's (not necessarily this one) you can do it in any text editor (notepad, wordpad or even word- although i wouldn't) but I would definitely recommend you have a look at ConText (http://fixedsys.com/context/) , which adds some colour to the different types of formats in the xml (much like you would see it in your Internet Browser (IE6/Firebird/Opera))

Those of you who have programmed before may have already come across this program- its excellent and made life a whole lot easier- it uses tabs (like firebird) so you don't get loads of text files all over your desktop

If you install it- it will basically try and "hijack" notepad- which windows may not like, you can choose not to do that although i have and haven't suffered any ill effects.

The more experienced users shouldn't find anything new in the xml- but if you have any more thoughts/tips or complaints (hope not :() to add feel free to post them here- I'll leave it upto the mods to decide if its worthy of a place in the FAQ's

Aplogies for Spilling mistakes :laugh:

Right I'm off to get my xbox fixed now.

Oh yeah- Avalaunch is alpha software, so u are responsible if it breaks your xbox- Don't blame me or Team Avalaunch ;)

[smokafatty]

Nice job. I'm curious, why use hddloader for the games folder? Why not just use F:\games?

[pepsik]

Very nice, gives you very good example settings and explains what the settings will accomplish. I'm very impressed :D

[Discwizard]

I like it......alot!
Thanks, nice work.

[nimbles]

Thanks guys :t_up: phew just got back from getting the old lpc out and ftting a new x23pro :eek: man the original installer had done a real job on the installing the chip-there was tape over the d0 point- the cheapmod was a proper home made jobber- still never had any probs with it till i shot myself in the foot trying to be smart with the bios flashing :rolleyes:

Few hairy moements- but its all good now- i'll stick this xml file in and see if ava boots up ok with it.

Edit: :luxhello: yay! it works

Smokafatty: you know what, I don't know why I stuck with F:\HDDLoader- the amount of messing around I've done with the setup and the fact i haven't used HDDloader for over a year makes me wonder why I never changed:

Thats next on the todo list, damn it thats alot of dash's and apps .ini's/.xml's i'm gonna have to edit :yawn:.

Oh yeah and I went back to the scene of the crime and flashed one bank with the offending Blue flubber bios this time remembering to replace the dummy eeprombin with my real eeprom (always have a back up of your important files and bioses children!) - flashed fine this time- almost perfect- there's a bit of green glow but it makes a change to the usual green flubber- anyways seems colour editing of the flubber could be appearing soon in xbtool!

[nimbles]

I noticed a small error-
in the games path example I hadn't separated multiple sources for games with their invidiual "path tags" this is what it should be like:


<list presetname="Games">
<path scanlevel="2">
E:\Games
</path>
<path>
F:\Games
</path>
<path>
E:\HDDLoader
</path>
<path>
F:\HDDLoader
</path>
</list>

If you have already downloaded the xml, and you have games on say the e and f drive, edit the menu path to follow the format above

I've made the change in the file too- so its ok now- sorry guys :rolleyes:

I'm not sure that it will cause avalaunch to crash but It might only have kept the first of the two folders the way i wrote it initally