So freaking EPIC!! This would be the equivalent of a panty dropper for men, a draws dropper or something... but seriously, [member='Mugotu'] can u consider implementing the dimensions that Mastershoes and his team are working on for this HQ Cover Project? It would be so official and dope as f**k.
Mine will be using the PROPER sizes for each emu's official box, idk if the values he put in that post are proper or not yet. Also, I will be figuring out some way to work them into the cover downloader, maybe Lustar will add sections for them on gametdb since thats the entire reason he rewrote half of the site was to make it possible to add more systems easily. Plus, since there aren't any more games for those systems being released, it should be rather quick to have every game's cover on the site.
Anyways, while I was working on a quad boot setup on my lappy for a presentation at school, I idiotically followed instructions for linux mint saying the guided mode in the installer would auto detect windows and use unpartitioned space to install it, when in fact you have to do a manual/expert type of setup. In short I ended up formatting my windows partition accidentally for the first time in like 10 years. Thank god my family albums are saved on drop box! I lost a few movies and most importantly the new program I just wrote..... Anyways, I'm now making an attempt again to switch over to linux permanently since I no longer play mmo's I don't need windows. Really I'm only losing my beloved notepad++, so I'm trying out some linux alternatives like geany, but I still think some things are going to be missing from that, maybe I will need to modify it or write some extensions for it, idk.
Some things I require in a code editer that most don't do:
after a ")" in notepad++ I can hit insert and it will do this:
from:
if(x)|
to:
if(x)
{
|
}
Functions completion, auto closing of braces, brackets, and parenthesis are nice too.
Also, if you double click a word in notepad++, it will not just highlight that whole word, but also all occurrences of that word in the file. Makes easy for tracking references or modifications to variables or functions.
And finally, the search functions in notepad++ are the best I have found in any program. I can search by an "extended" method that understands things like \n, \t, \r, etc. Or by regex, in one file, all opened files, or in all files recusrsively within a directory. the replace function also works in all of these ways too.
Sucks because I was just about ready to spam fceugx, snes9xgx, and vbagx into my wiiflow+ svn, using settings entirely from wiiflow rather than using the existing libwiigui version. My emulator modules will be heavily modified and stripped of menus andother unneeded stuff, and use preset paths and stuff set in wiiflow configuration files rather than tantric's config files. (yes I know it makes it difficult to run them standalone but I want it fully integrated. In the end my goal is for wiiflow+ to be an complete all inclusive nintendo emulator up to and including the wii. (genesis will still be an external module in the end, but Wiiflow+ will be expandable by a small configuration file so that end users can add more modes and box sizes and emulator modules themselves, provided the emu supports the necessary args.)
This is a huge undertaking so I'm juggling a few things trying to sort out the feature priority list, not necessarily by the bang the feature will make, but by how stable it will allow wiiflow+ to remain also.
The bigger standard features everyone is heavily anticipating of course are emulators integration and DML support, but I have a bucket full of smaller features that have been requested for ages, as well as some that have not been requested but I have added because they SHOULD be a part of it. Wiiflow will be it's own guide, installer, repair program, etc, which is most likely the most important one. There are many smaller features this will bring and alot of things will benefit greatly from some of the tools it will bring, for example channel/ww/vc uninstalling/installing.
Emulator integration is the largest change of all, since things like cheats require a rewrite of the cheats setup in wiiflow, among other things.
Above all, I still want to improve the reliability and stability of features Wiiflow+ already has FIRST. There are still some outstanding issues that really annoy me such as usb saves, ww/vc emulation, coverflow adjustment, etc. I will be preparing the coverflow for adding/using multiple case sizes easily and cleanly during this time, but I will not be committing it until it can be used. The more wiiflow and wiiflow+'s code base grow away from eachother the more comfortable I will be committing things that aren't complete. I hate working on something for 2 weeks or more to have someone do the last 2 days worth of work on it and grab the bang effect and praise from the userbase like they did all the work for it (even if that isn't their intention, it happens if they release it before me). Anyways, I probably have said too much already, hope they don't read my thread anymore xD.
