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Introducing New (Enhanced) MaLa Game List Editor
Eddie_Brock:
--- Quote from: thund3rstruck on March 25, 2010, 02:09:50 pm ---You can be sure that a new file infernolab.ini was created somewhere on your disk, but I can't tell you exactly where it went... :-[. That's a legit bug that I need to fix.
I was waiting for someone to use the command line converter before mentioning this bug...
Hope this helps,
Cheers!
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Heh, isn't that basically the same issue I was having several days ago? ;) No ini file to be found in the directory. No worries, I've redone my .mlg with the full path and this time all worked like it should have.
Still a handy app, for sure.
jasonbar:
--- Quote from: thund3rstruck on March 25, 2010, 02:09:50 pm ---Yea, I noticed that the other day as well. The game list file path parameter needs to be the full path because the Delphi code I wrote is a little dumb (cause I had to learn the Delphi programming language in like 2 hours to do this). So in other words you need to specify the full path like this:
You can be sure that a new file infernolab.ini was created somewhere on your disk, but I can't tell you exactly where it went... :-[. That's a legit bug that I need to fix.
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Howdy-
Oddly, I did a search from Windows Explorer & it found no such .ini file anywhere on my hard drive. Kooky. I re-ran the program with the full path to my .mlg file & it cranked through all 2200ish games & created the .ini file. Hooray!
One more request/question. My goal is to simply generate a txt file list of all of the games in my MaLa cabinet, as they appear in my MaLa menu. This seems to correspond to the "description" line in the .ini file that your program generated.
Is there a way to generate a file with *only* this piece of data, 1 entry per line? I'd like the "description=" text to not be there, but that's very easily taken out with a Find & Replace in Word or Notepad.
Thanks!
-Jason
thund3rstruck:
--- Quote from: jasonbar ---Oddly, I did a search from Windows Explorer & it found no such .ini file anywhere on my hard drive. Kooky. I re-ran the program with the full path to my .mlg file & it cranked through all 2200ish games & created the .ini file. Hooray!
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Well actually the file is going to be named based on the gamelist title itself, so it would only be inferno.ini if inferno was the name of the game list title. When I get some time I'm going to dig in and find out exactly what's going on if you don't specify the path. It might well be doing nothing since I think I have implemented empty try/catch error handling (due to my lack of knowledge of the Delphi language).
--- Quote from: jasonbar ---Is there a way to generate a file with *only* this piece of data, 1 entry per line? I'd like the "description=" text to not be there, but that's very easily taken out with a Find & Replace in Word or Notepad.
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Yes there is, just not in this tool. My tool serves a very specific/limited purpose, and thats to create, edit, and manage MaLa game lists. For all these auxiliary tasks I recommend using ROMLister. In ROMLister you load up your XML file, click the 'List All Roms' button, and select the CSV option. From there you can select the 'Description' field and specify the output as a text file.
Cheers!
Congui:
Hi there.
If all you want is a list with the descriptions, you can do it using a vbscript. I've attached a zip with a vbscript that does what you're after. You must run it from the command prompt (inside the zip file is a short cut) using the following syntax:
CreateMalaGameList.vbs mala.ini #
mala.ini refers to the ini file generated by malaGamelistEditor.exe.
# can take to two values 0 or 1:
0 leaves the description just as it is
1 removes the brackets from the description: (), [], {}
Example:
CreateMalaGameList.vbs fighters.ini 1
The end result is a file with an underscore infront of it, in the same directory:
_fighters.ini
Hope this helps.
Cheers, :cheers:
Congui
jasonbar:
Congui, you are super duper awesome! The script worked like a charm. Thank you *so* much! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
I'd already cleaned up the "description" field to my liking some time ago, so I used the 0 option & didn't need to do any bracket removal.
Wow, thanks very much to both of you!!!
I now have a list of all my games in MaLa. I guess I have simple pleasures & needs... ;D
-Jason
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