Good idea, and this is what I had hoped to do, but I don't think you can multithread in ctrulib, which means no background processing. This would mean that the launcher would stall while loading each app's details and adding them to the menu.
Well bloody hell, it works! I've moved the title menu populating code into a separate thread as per that example and it does indeed load the titles in the background. It's not quite in a usable state yet as I need to add callbacks to update the grid as the menu populates, and also it does Bad Things if you remove the cart while on the title menu as this triggers a parallel refreshing process and it all gets screwed up. But the threading works so I can now change the way the title scanning works so it's done in the background.
Later todayWonder how much longer to the next beta
I'm at work right now. I've got it so it updates the title menu in a background thread but you can see the changes in real time if you open the menu before it has finished updating. I need to fix a few little bugs with this then I'll upload the next beta. No, that's part of the exploit. It happens before the launcher is booted so I can't modify it.
That multithrading is awesomeLater today
All I did was ask if something was possible and got attacked.
Hey, hit me up first. I can more than likely answer your question, and then if it is a legitimate/feasible one, I can pass it along.
Love it!Beta 36 is up:
The latter item was difficult to test thoroughly as I have so few titles on my 3DS that there is hardly any loading time. However, if you hit the title menu icon in the bottom right as soon as the launcher comes up, you will see the icons appearing and the page indicators increasing in number as they are added. Hopefully this is all working as intended
- Changing the transparency of toolbar buttons will now also affect their shadow and icon
- Added the back button to the folders help page
- Added the option to add a translucent panel where text is shown to improve readability when using wallpapers
- Background loading of titles - no more loading screen!
- Ejecting/inserting a cart no longer triggers a reload of the whole title list - it just toggles the visibility of the cart icon
Yes I removed it. You can achieve the same effect by changing the water colour in the settings.
It is possible to mix them, but it would be a lot of work. Currently the launcher uses the folders the 3dsx files are in to determine which folder they should show in in the menu. To mix them in with apps from another source would mean creating a database containing all the apps and use that to determine which folders they should show in. That's a huge job which I don't want to undertake. Drag and drop reordering of apps has been requested a few times. I don't want to do it, but once the source code is out I think suloku might want to have a go.Couldn't read through all pages, but I have two questions: Would it be possible to mix the normal 3DS apps and games with the homebrew software? So that you don't have to switch over to one section? And do you think sorting the applications by drag and drop would be possible? Otherwise, I really love this Homebrew launcher! I will soon create some themes for it!
