GameZone 2.6 feature requests

[idkpmiller]

What about when GameZone first starts up and no emulator is selected, should it display anything? or should it only update the file once a game is playing, and then when it stops delete the file? Also does LCD smarties look for changes in the file and dynamically update or is it simply polling a file every so often?

Cheers

[justonewren]

The short answer to that question is to just update the file when the emulator launches. You don't really even need to clear the file out after the emulator closes. While navigating GameZone in PVRX2, I'm running the iMON VFD plugin, which I have set to output to a text file so LCD Smartie can read it, so nothing would need to be displayed then.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with LCD Smartie, so let me just give a quick rundown of its function and how I have mine set up. This should give you a better idea of how to implement this if you choose to.

There are 20 screens that can be configured to output any text/characters the user desires. Different information is displayed through the use of plugins, which will allow things like processor load, time/date, and program information (iMON VFD plugin for GB-PVR, winamp, itunes), etc.

There are also Actions that can activate/deactivate or change from screen to screen when a certain event occurs. Using a plugin that I found on the LCD Smartie Forum called "processes.dll", I can tell LCD Smartie to go to a specific screen when a certain program is in focus. Using another plugin in conjuction, I can make it search for the focused program through a list of programs in a text file and go to a specific screen if it is found on that list.

Thus, I can create a screen which reads the text file output from GameZone, and I can create an Action which tells LCD Smartie to display that screen any time any of my emulators are open. When the emulator closes, focus returns to PVRX2, and the screen switches to the one referencing the iMON VFD output

[idkpmiller]

sent you a PM, please email me you address so I can get you to test an early 2.6 alpha version with LCD support

Cheers

[idkpmiller]

After a big push today I have all but one of the wishlist implemented. I will hopefully get the last item done over the next day or so. This really is the last time for any other items to be considered.

Cheers