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Post by patrickp on Aug 6, 2007 5:42:34 GMT -5
Sig changing time!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 5:48:19 GMT -5
Yep. My mirror is up and running right now by the way. I stole the index from Ultima's page and just added some text to it to avoid confusion. ieatpancakes.com/pSX/Frontend/
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Post by Ultima on Aug 6, 2007 7:50:07 GMT -5
I also notice you've removed all the old versions from the News & Announcements thread. Old versions are available here. Not really Edit: But uh, that's gone now, now that I added Mika's mirror
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Post by honoredshadow on Aug 29, 2007 10:52:19 GMT -5
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Post by patrickp on Aug 31, 2007 18:55:28 GMT -5
I just noticed that the Frontend now writes to ~/.pSX/psx.ini if that's where it is, Ultima. Nice forward thinking!
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Post by Ultima on Sept 4, 2007 21:51:39 GMT -5
I'm handling psx.ini in a similar manner (if it doesn't find psx.ini in the pSX executable's directory, it'll search in ~/.pSX/ instead). Even if pSX Author doesn't implement it in this way in pSX, it (the frontend) will still be backwards compatible with pSX 1.11 and 1.12. Well, I sorta did set the ground rules on how I was expecting pSX to behave with regards to placing psx.ini, after all honoredshadow: I'm taking it into serious consideration. I'm almost definitely going to add it, but I want a show of eHands to see how much in demand this feature is (really isn't too difficult to add, but yeah).
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Sept 5, 2007 8:41:28 GMT -5
I will say in this thread too, in case you miss the other one. I vote a definite "yes" to the VSync option, for the reasons that it's a useful feature to people with lower-end machines, and also because it's a simple feature to add for the sake of completeness.
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Post by xaaz on Sept 5, 2007 10:13:06 GMT -5
Howdy! I just recently discovered pSX and pSX Frontend and have found them both to be amazing tools. Many thanks to the authors of both! That being said, I do have one minor aesthetic issue with pSX Frontend. It seems after having added profiles for a portion of my collection I noticed that the way in which pSX Frontend lists the profiles is in a straight vertical fashion. With adding my first few game profiles it didn't seem to be much of an issue, but as I added more and more profiles the problem became more evident, as I had to scroll down regardless of how I resized the window. I looked around as best I could for an option to change the way in which the profiles are listed but I could not find anything under any of the tabs or on the forums. Granted, I may have missed it in the 30+ pages of this thread. I would hazard to say that pSX Frontend would be better (though it is already a fine piece of work) if it included some type of function to view the profile list in a manner that takes up the most space possible in terms of the size of the window. Below I have linked a picture I made illustrating my concern and my perceived solution. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I apologize if I overlooked a thread where this was already addressed. -Xaaz EDIT- I neglected to mention that my above comments were specifically in regard to the List viewtype, not the Icon viewtype. My apologies.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2007 10:45:46 GMT -5
Absolutely agreed with the wasted space suggestion. Though I personally don't have more than a few profiles right now, I can see how it would be annoying to scroll down when there is so much space to use right there.
Also, no objection to the VSync option, though I don't use it, it would be good to have it for the sake of completeness.
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Post by patrickp on Sept 5, 2007 12:09:25 GMT -5
When I used the Windows version, AIR you could get the games to re-order in as many columns as you liked simply by dragging it wide enough. There might be some kind of option you need to select for this. I can see that you're using the Windows version by the icons. In the Linux version, however, Ultima hasn't figured out how he can get the window to remember its size, and the titles don't re-order even if you do drag the window wide enough. So I'm stuck with a tiny little window to show a long list of games, I have to resize it every time I open it.
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Post by xaaz on Sept 5, 2007 12:23:44 GMT -5
When I used the Windows version, AIR you could get the games to re-order in as many columns as you liked simply by dragging it wide enough. There might be some kind of option you need to select for this. I can see that you're using the Windows version by the icons. That is very interesting, pactrickp. I can't for the life of me find the aforementioned option to make it so. Are you certain you're not referring to the Icon viewtype? The Icon viewtype is apparently seeded horizontally, which I believe is why it gives the illusion of altering "columns" as one resizes the window. An example of such is as follows. My apologies though if I am mistaken and you were indeed referring to the List viewtype. On a slightly unrelated note to Ultima, I also would very much enjoy a Vsync option. -Xaaz
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Post by patrickp on Sept 5, 2007 12:31:47 GMT -5
Ah, it might have well been, Xaaz - long time since I used it!
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Post by Ultima on Sept 5, 2007 17:17:47 GMT -5
Interestingly, I had originally planned on making the profiles list scroll horizontally, but I forget why I decided against it (might've been that I originally wanted the profiles list to behave with full-row select, but that's obviously not there). I might change "List" to be like that (if I figure it out; I haven't checked at the moment), and add a "Detailed" view to list profiles as they are currently listed (all vertically). The only problem with a possible "Detailed" view would be that it wouldn't be all that... detailed with just the profile name We shall see what happens with that... And I guess I'll add the VSync option. Hurrah!
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Post by xaaz on Sept 6, 2007 10:52:51 GMT -5
Howdy! I was just recently tinkering around with my image archives,reorganizing and such, when I discovered something about pSX Frontend that might be worth looking into.
It seems to me that any Paths entered under the Basic tab, "pSX" and "Disc" for example, are static. This means that any time a folder that contains a referenced file in the aforementioned Paths is moved to a different location it renders pSX Frontend, and by extension pSX itself, inoperable, without manually loading each and every profile individually and updating the Paths.
With just a few profiles this wouldn't be much of an issue, but with quite a few of them it becomes something of a nightmare.
I figure doing two things would solve this. The first being to make the path to "psxfin.exe" a global setting so that it does not have to be entered, or the path to it altered in the case of the above situation, for every profile, and the second being to add a "checksum"-like function that would automatically alter the Paths in an intelligently dynamic fashion, similar to the way one would find system and general shortcuts/paths to dependancies being updated on the fly in Windows when file/folder structures change.
Granted, i'm not a professional programmer so I really can't intelligently comment on how feasible this solution would be, if at all. I do believe though that this is worth being looked into. Given the nature and purpose of pSX Frontend, this would be a welcome addition to it in my opinion, even though it is already a fine piece of work.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
-Xaaz
PS - My apologies if this was already discussed and I missed it in my search.
EDIT- Incidentally, I also had another thought that is somewhat related to my comment about a global path setting for "psxfin.exe," and that would be an option to set global switches, -f and -F for example. Granted, when one makes the profile it can be set at that time, and it is surely easy enough to hit Alt+Enter at any point to go fullscreen, but I believe having global switches would make pSX Frontend much more streamlined, which I believe would be in line with it's given nature as a frontend.
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Post by patrickp on Sept 6, 2007 12:28:50 GMT -5
Actually, I've wound up moving the the relevant folders once or twice myself, and I've never found it a problem. All I do is open psxfrontend.ini in Gedit (this is in Linux), click Replace, enter the old path and the new path, and replace the lot with a click. If you want to be discriminating (eg you've moved one folder from the original location, but left others), you can replace a bit more than the path itself to make sure only those entries get changed. Works fine. If you're at all worried about it, back up your original file before doing this.
I don't recall, but I would assume Notepad has a comparable function to Replace?
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