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RomLister question on categories
NOP:
ok, kick this around and see what happens:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/RomLister006b.zip
I'm up for more tweaks to it before I release it officially.
There's one caveat that GG alluded to earlier in this thread that I ended up bumping into:
I only added the main categories from catver.ini (puzzle, maze, fighting, etc) and then also added mature to the list. Those that are familiar with catver know that it lists things like "puzzle / mature" and "driving / top down" etc. I only added the stuff before the slash in the list, otherwise there would be way too many categories to chose from and no one would be able to get all of the driving games or all of the mature games in one search.
As GG said, you really should add "category>Sports" to the -find window, otherwise you could get matches from elsewhere in the game's data field. The problem is that "mature" is always listed as a sub-category, so "category>mature" doesn't find anything.
So, you may get a few extra ROMs in your list, if for any reason, one of the names of a category is somehow used in the game's name, or perhaps driver information, or some other odd location.
I'd suspect that the chances of that are pretty low though.
Oh, and just one correction:
Green Giant said:
"Caps do matter so double check your entries."
AFAIK, the stuff in the -find field is not case sensitive. The only time I check for case (and even this is pretty stupid) is in the Search button to locate a single game's XML info. If you do find a place where case is used, let me know and I'll get rid of that immediately.
Otherwise, you're spot on with everything, and thank you so much for understanding the tool well enough to describe how it works better than I can. :cheers:
-jeff!
Green Giant:
--- Quote from: NOP on July 10, 2007, 07:06:48 pm ---Oh, and just one correction:
Green Giant said:
"Caps do matter so double check your entries."
--- End quote ---
Must have been the XML viewer I was using. When I was searching for different types of categories in the master.xml file had to make sure and get the case right. Made so many lists that its all a big blur to me now.
Green Giant:
Tested out the new romlister, but I can't select the category option. It is there but it is greyed out.
NOP:
the only way to get the category option is to use a merged xml file.
Pop into settings and tools and create one.
You may have been using an old merged file-one built using the stand alone tool vs. the new one built into ROMLister itself. I now leave a signature in the xml header of the merged tool so that I can enable certain items in the GUI if all the searchable items are available. There were also a couple bugfixes since I added the merge tool into ROMlister, so you really should rebuild your merged file.
-jeff!
Green Giant:
Yeah, thats probably it. Still using one from way back before mala integration. Been meaning to rebuild especially since I updated to a newer version of mame.
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