Re: [Pyrecade-devel] Big Changes

[Robert F. <fle...@va...>]

Moving back to the list

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:18:05PM -0600, Jeremy Witt wrote:
> I'm about 90% finished with a little prog to generate 
> a full list of games (like ultgameslist.txt with clones).. It wasn't as
> simple as I first expected  as gamelist.txt that they publish on 
> mame.net only has info for the parents of game varients. (I didn't 
> want to blindly copy this into the clones fields)

Yeah it wasn't simple at all.  mame takes a -nocl flag for any of the
frontend related options that leaves out clones.  If you script just
supported that as well, that might be best.

> I'll put it up in /contrib later today

Right on.  So a little about filtering.  Since I added the metakey support
my idea was that we can use meta left and right to change letters of the
alphabet, and meta up and down to change categories.  When the metakey is
released the filter would be applied.  As for how to make it look pretty my
idea was to support a themeable alphabet.  You created two images with
(All # A B C D ...) over a transparent background.  One would be the
inactive form of the letters and one would be the active or highlighted form
of the letters.  The key is each letter is equally spaced from the next.
Knowing that spacing we could overlay a portion of the active image over the
inactive image to create the effect of selecting a particular letter of the
alphabet.  Does that make sense?  Of course just using real fonts and not
allowing themeing is easier, but how much fun is that :)  I'm probably going
to tinker with that a bit in the coming days.

Robert