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NOP:
>If it also searched on the controls.dat keywords, it would be just what what I need.

Do you mean this stuff?

numPlayers="2" alternating="1" mirrored="1" usesService="0" tilt="0" cocktail="1"

This tool searches on anything between "<game romname=" and "</game>"

The checkboxes at the top of the GUI are just to get you started-if you look at the bottom of the screen as you click stuff, you'll see the search parameters changing on the fly.  Just go down to that parameters box and add in anything else you want to search on, like add "& mirrored=1" inside the quotes if you wanted that keyword included.   Just make sure to skip the quotes and use cocktail=1 or alternating=1 instead of cocktail="1".

-jeff!

BTW: i pointed everyone to the wrong controls.xml above, there's no reason the controls.xml.0.111.2.zip wouldn't work either.
mark shaker:

--- Quote from: NOP on March 09, 2007, 10:05:57 am --->If it also searched on the controls.dat keywords, it would be just what what I need.

Do you mean this stuff?

numPlayers="2" alternating="1" mirrored="1" usesService="0" tilt="0" cocktail="1"

This tool searches on anything between "<game romname=" and "</game>"

The checkboxes at the top of the GUI are just to get you started-if you look at the bottom of the screen as you click stuff, you'll see the search parameters changing on the fly.  Just go down to that parameters box and add in anything else you want to search on, like add "& mirrored=1" inside the quotes if you wanted that keyword included.   Just make sure to skip the quotes and use cocktail=1 or alternating=1 instead of cocktail="1".

-jeff!

BTW: i pointed everyone to the wrong controls.xml above, there's no reason the controls.xml.0.111.2.zip wouldn't work either.

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Thank you *very* much! I now have all I need.

I did notice the textual query line after my last post.

If you do plan to do any future development:

A .ini (or xml) file that let people customise the Quick Find Wizard would rock.

The .csv output function does not work.

   - Mark
NOP:

--- Quote from: mark shaker ---If you do plan to do any future development:

A .ini (or xml) file that let people customise the Quick Find Wizard would rock.

The .csv output function does not work.

   - Mark

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New version, build 002 ready to be kicked around.
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

(yeah, my screenshot is wrong)

I fixed the csv output for controls.xml i believe and rolled both MAME's xml and control.xml into the same executable.

A customizable quick-find wizard would be cool.  I think that would be a *huge* PITA too.  Adding a few checkboxes is doable though-just let me know what you want.

The next/prev/search stuff is still kinda wonky, so be gentle on the error reports there.  Does anyone use that feature anyway?

-jeff!

mark shaker:

--- Quote from: NOP on March 12, 2007, 06:21:15 pm ---
New version, build 002 ready to be kicked around.
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

(yeah, my screenshot is wrong)

I fixed the csv output for controls.xml i believe and rolled both MAME's xml and control.xml into the same executable.

A customizable quick-find wizard would be cool.  I think that would be a *huge* PITA too.  Adding a few checkboxes is doable though-just let me know what you want.

The next/prev/search stuff is still kinda wonky, so be gentle on the error reports there.  Does anyone use that feature anyway?

-jeff!



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Jeff,

Thank you so much!

I won't stop you from adding bling, but it already does what I would like it to do.

There is no need to add any more check boxes, as I can get a list of all the control names by doing a .csv file on just controls and pasting the list into a utility that eliminates duplicates (I used TextPad).

That gives me the master list of search terms, and makes it easy to find games compatible with a particular controls configuration.

   - Mark
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