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Author Topic: Changing Game List on the Fly Using Tree Layout  (Read 1842 times)

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Changing Game List on the Fly Using Tree Layout
« on: November 21, 2010, 09:15:40 pm »
I'll admit, I had just started playing with the tree layout in MaLa right before real life got in the way a few months ago.  So I may be remembering wrong, but it seems like you can't change the default game list on the fly like you can with a regular layout.

Is that correct and this is a new feature request, or was I doing something wrong?  This is mainly for my console emulators.  I would like it to default to all US roms, but players would have the option to switch to say non-US roms.  Or translated roms.

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Re: Changing Game List on the Fly Using Tree Layout
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2010, 10:15:09 am »
Well, you would have to create that in a tree format.

Like it may look something like this.

Nintendo
  -- US Roms
  -- Non-US Roms
  -- Bootlegs
  -- Hacks
Super Nintendo
  -- etc

So you would be selecting the rom set through the menu.  The purpose of the tree, as I see it, is to make everything apparent to the user, on the screen.     

If you are asking to use a Tree, and then have some sort of a "game list switch" button you could configure, then I believe you are right, there is no way to do that.  I believe you'd have to add the different gamelists to the tree as described above.