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Mala Help needed - CLViewer and game lists
loadman:
boboli:
loadman,
this is fine, but it's a bit backwards. The way this "add selection" works is that you have to add entire categories to your list (i.e. ALL paddle games) and then delete individuals. If you take a large category like fighters, and only want to add 10 fighters to your list, you either have to individually FIND 10 fighters (can't sort or filter the left window) and add them individually, or you have to add the entire category and then delete all but the ones you want to keep.
Also, I wish the window could be resized - it feels a little claustrophobic to have to work in such a tiny window.
It would be a vast improvement if you could sort and filter the left window and add to the right window as needed.
NOP:
--- Quote from: boboli on April 19, 2007, 10:36:37 am ---What I'm really looking for is to be able to sort roms by specific criteria (fighters, maze, etc.) and then be able to remove roms from those sorted lists by description (pacman instead of puckman, etc.).
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Unfortunately, mame's listxml and controls.dat (controls.xml for my purposes) doesn't have a game type field (fighter, maze, etc) but if there's a list out there that does have that info, it would be fantastic to merge that in.
--- Quote ---Further, I'd want to be able to axe entire groups of roms based on criteria (remove all mahjong, all pachinko, etc.). I don't want to delete them from my machine - I just
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That can be done with ROMLister for certain. with only "mahjong" in the find field, it'll easily locate all (or any ROM with any mention of mahjong in it's description)
When you create a list in mala, what does the actual file itself contain? Can you post a small one here? I see no reason why romlister couldn't just output a mala file directly, if there's some kind of header information or whatever required, I'm sure I can generate it.
I like your itunes like interface. That's more work than I can offer my services to though.
-jeff!
boboli:
NOP - wouldn't catver.ini be usable to sort by type? That's how Mala does it, I believe.
Really, when I say I'm looking for "itunes" it's mostly the ability to sort & filter based on any criteria, and then easily make playlists based on multiple criteria. I'll take another look at Romlister.
I believe the Mala list maker outputs an "mll" file, which looks like nothing more than a text list with possibly some additional formatting.
NOP:
ah, that's what catver is for. I see it mentioned all the time, but us poor DOS users don't know what to do with it. ;D
It would take some kind of merging tool, but adding catver's data in with mame's listxml format and for good measure adding controls.xml into the mix, would give you everything you could possibly want to search for I'd think.
This idea of merging files together into 1 super xml file came up a little while ago and I shrugged it off then, but perhaps now is the time to look into it again.
--- Quote ---I believe the Mala list maker outputs an "mll" file, which looks like nothing more than a text list with possibly some additional formatting.
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That's what I expected, and that's the data I need. If I knew what that additional formatting looked like, and got a Mala user to do a little testing, I'd gladly add a Mala list output option to my list maker. Please post one here and I'll see how it's put together.
-jeff!
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