Auto-detect Cd

[sandman53]

The one thing I would like to see that most other emulators have is when you load a CD from the Cd-rom, it automatically detects the Cd-rom rather than having you select it.

It's not that big of a deal, but when loading images the image is always right there in tha folder for easy clicking, but when I want to play from a CD have I have to either close the trees to get to the Cd-drive or scroll down an awful lot (I have a lot of folders) Either way it becomes quite... tedious after a while.

I would think an automatic detection system would be rather easy to impliment since all the emulators have it, but I know nothing about programming... soo yea.

Just food for thought.

[Ultima]

Perhaps pSX Author should also make My Computer the root directory for the drive selection dialog (which should be possible) instead of the current Desktop, which could also alleviate this problem, and would make it a tad bit easier for users like you (who have a bunch of directories on the desktop). The CLSID for My Computer is "::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}".

[sandman53]

It doesn't default to the desktop, but rather whever you have the pSX files.

Defaulting to my computer would probably be just as good though!

[Ultima]

That's a bit odd -- it always defaults to the last used drive for me...

I'd meant root as in the top-most directory shown. Currently, you see Desktop at the top of that select drive dialog -- what I'm suggesting is that pSX Author make it so that My Computer is at the top instead (which I'm sure is possible), that way there are less directories to distract the users... But if it's occurring like you say the problem is, then that wouldn't be much help, as it will keep digging into the correct directory via My Computer anyway ;\

In the mean time, assuming you use the same drive to insert your games, you can always create a shortcut that automatically inserts the correct drive at startup (meaning you should input the disc into the drive first, then start pSX).

[sandman53]

yea, right now I am using your front-end. It seems to be working fine for me.

[Sune]

Weird.

On my PC (and on my old PC) if I try to start from a CD, pSX have always defaulted to the D: drive.

But my D: drive is a harddrive, so I have to close the tree first to get at my F: drive which is where I usually run CD's from.

As this is obviously different for everybody, I think the best solution would be if pSX simply remembered the last used drive.

[patrickp]

Mine too, Sune. I suspect what it's doing is simply selecting the next drive after the C: drive - which, on a lot of systems, would be the first optical drive.

[Deleted]

On that day, five years ago...

These days, however, not so true. I personally know very few people with only one physical drive and if someone has one drive, it's usually partitioned.

But that's just me.

[patrickp]

Oh, for sure, Mika. On the machine I'm using ATM, I've got two hard drives with four Windows partitions between them - and that's not mentioning non-Windows partitions. My optical drives are G: and H:

However, most of the people I know _do_ have just one (C:) drive before the optical drives: not infrequently one getting on for 200GB or so... I keep telling them how dumb it is; if you at least save all your data on a different partition to your OS drive, you can flatten the OS drive and reinstall the OS with impunity, and still have all your data available on the second partition.

But they don't listen. I guess they must all be masochists and love the pain of losing everything if their OS goes down. Either that or, on a 200GB drive, they haven't got anything worth saving...

[Gamesoul Master]

herra said:

On that day, five years ago...

Final Fantasy VII, the flashback to the fire in Nibelheim?

Anyway... yeah, right now I have a 10 GB partition set aside for XP (used to be 5 GB, but that ended up being *just* too small after a while). Then my main partition for programs and files, and a couple other tiny specially-formatted partitions for certain random tasks. Then there's my *other* hard drive, and also the "drives" from my printer... all of which come before my first DVD-RW drive (which is L: right now).

For me, pSX defaults to My Computer... that's the way it's always been for me. I guess we really do all have different results on this. For a short time, I thought I remembered pSX automatically detecting my DVD drive with a game installed (somewhere around v1.7 or v1.8...). And I don't think it was my imagination either... Didn't we have a discussion about this a while ago, and then auto-detection worked in a release soon after that...? I can't be imagining that...

[patrickp]

Yes, I think you're right, GM, the behaviour of 'Insert CD drive' has changed from time to time. AIR the main discussions we had over this, though, were over how Ultima's Frontend does the same thing - and, I think, does it a bit more sensibly than pSX, as it shows the 'My Computer' initial view, as Ultima suggested pSX should do earlier in this thread.

I can't remember offhand what Windows Explorer displays; I usually set up shortcuts for some of the main drives I use and use the /e, X:\ switch where X is the drive letter: this opens Windows Explorer showing the root of the drive. Ah, just checked: without the switch, Windows Explorer opens with My Computer entirely unexpanded on the left and My Documents open on the right. A bit superfluous, considering I've got a My Documents shortcut anyway... wouldn't be any use for pSX, either.

[Deleted]

I totally forgot to mention that my pSX also seems to default to D:\ when I load a cd drive.

[Melanogaster]

Same here...