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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: mite6 on March 28, 2011, 01:29:17 pm

Title: Why MALA erase "game played" stats when reload main game list?
Post by: mite6 on March 28, 2011, 01:29:17 pm

Hi gyes,
so is there a way to make mala track statistics of "played games" all the time?
Thanks in advance  :)

Title: Re: Why MALA erase "game played" stats when reload main game list?
Post by: loadman on March 28, 2011, 11:12:05 pm

Quote from: mite6 on March 28, 2011, 01:29:17 pm

Hi gyes,
so is there a way to make mala track statistics of "played games" all the time?
Thanks in advance  :)

Not at the moment.

When you Reload Main Game List it creates a new game list and teh times played is just one of the Attributes

    FName:                 string;       // rom name
    FRomOf:                string;       // master oder bios name
    FCloneOf:              string;       // master rom name
    FSourcefile:           string;       // driver name
    FDescription:          string;       // game title
    FYear:                 Integer;      // year
    FManufacturer:         string;       // manufacturer
    FGenre:                string;       // game genre

    FInputButtons:         Integer;      // control panel button count
    FInputCoins:           Integer;      // control panel coin count
    FInputPlayers:         string;       // player count, nplayers information
    FInputControl:         string;       // kind of game control
    FVideoScreen:          string;       // kind of video screen
    FVideoOrientation:     string;       // vertical or horizontal
    FVideoWidth:           Integer;      // width of the screen
    FVideoHeight:          Integer;      // height of the screen
    FDriverStatus:         string;
    FDriverColor:          string;
    FDriverSound:          string;
    FDriverEmulation:      string;
    FDriverGraphic:        string;
    FControls:             string;       // game controls from controls.dat
    FJoyUp:                string;
    FJoyDown:              string;
    FJoyLeft:              string;
    FJoyRight:             string;
    FButton1:              string;
    FButton2:              string;
    FButton3:              string;
    FButton4:              string;
    FButton5:              string;
    FButton6:              string;
    FButton7:              string;
    FButton8:              string;
    FDetails:              string;
    FRomPath:              string;       // path of romfile
    FExtension:            string;       // extension of romfile
   FPlayed:               Integer;

Title: Re: Why MALA erase "game played" stats when reload main game list?
Post by: mite6 on March 29, 2011, 04:39:12 am

Thanks for the answer.
Good to khnow  ;)

Title: Re: Why MALA erase "game played" stats when reload main game list?
Post by: loadman on April 06, 2011, 02:53:31 am

Quote from: mite6 on March 29, 2011, 04:39:12 am

Thanks for the answer.
Good to khnow  ;)

I guess a solution would be add the ability to export this data before refresh and import it again?