[malte]

We could reuse the tags for publisher, year, and make our own tag for developers.

I think I will add support for xml files via another parserConfig that uses xpathes to address the available elements. With this mechanism I will be able to handle different xml formats. But I could add a default configuration for a video nfo based format.

My wish is that your plugin will follow the current skin the user has applied (in my case Aeon65).

I wish it will do that, too. But this is the overovernext step. First I want to provide different views and support different screen resolutions. Actually I implement everything with a 800x600 resolution in mind because I have a very small TV. But I am sure it looks very ugly and wastes a lot of space on large screens.

I could make flags (I'm a former professional graphic designer) for all the developers and publishers - just to make it really crisp -- but only for the Aeon skins.

With the current configuration logic of this script I could support this as follows:

Code:

<imgPath type="publisher">/home/user/emus/publisherpics/%PUBLISHER%.png</imgPath>

This will work for all skins and you could decide where to show the new image type via image placing.

[wimpy]

Looking great mate!

BTW: I sent you a PM :-)

[garyi]

Can someone point me in the direction of the configuration file, there is no instructions given except 'learn yourself'

Trouble is I don't even know what it is I need to learn. I have an emulator here 'snes' for mac. What do with the config file to get this to open?

[malte]

Hi garyi,

are you sure you've already found the documentation of this script (http://code.google.com/p/romcollectionbrowser/wiki/Main)? I know, my english is not the best and maybe it is a bit detailled so that I've lost some basic steps. But I thought it should give you an idea how to configure things to get it working. I will try to add some more basic steps in the next days.

what you really have to do on your own:
- install your snes emulator
- find out how your emulator can be launched via command line

Regards,
malte

[malte]

I am working on a new UI design of the main page (the page with the filter controls) at the moment. There will be different views and the filter and button controls are hiding if they loose focus. Here are some screen shots of the current layout. Would be very nice to get some comments about it.

Info View:


Info 2 View:


Thumbs View:


Info View with filter:



Actually I only use some media files from Confluence skin. Maybe I will add different skins in the future.

[xfader86]

Just installed this on my system and had a play around adding new games, seems really cool, nice work!

Could you tell me what the top line for each game referes to in synopsis.txt e.g. db0814c5,5fa9485c,21392b00?

Also are there any plans to implement a scraper using something like Video Game Rebirth to pull info and box art?

Keep up the good work.

[wimpy]

Just installed this on my system and had a play around adding new games, seems really cool, nice work!

Could you tell me what the top line for each game referes to in synopsis.txt e.g. db0814c5,5fa9485c,21392b00?

Also are there any plans to implement a scraper using something like Video Game Rebirth to pull info and box art?

Keep up the good work.

the top line for each game are CRC values for roms related to the synopsis.
i'm sketching a scraper from RessurectionXtras release that's coming soon to see if i can supply something like that from our webpage.

We actually have complete synopsises for all the games for about 20 systems so after release you'd really have no need for a scraper, but i'm looking into it to see if it's needed.

[wimpy]

I am working on a new UI design of the main page (the page with the filter controls) at the moment. There will be different views and the filter and button controls are hiding if they loose focus. Here are some screen shots of the current layout. Would be very nice to get some comments about it.

Info View:


Info 2 View:


Thumbs View:


Info View with filter:



Actually I only use some media files from Confluence skin. Maybe I will add different skins in the future.

Awesome! The background image is a zoomed title screenshots ?

[malte]

Could you tell me what the top line for each game referes to in synopsis.txt e.g. db0814c5,5fa9485c,21392b00?

As wimpy said, these are the crc values of the rom files. In the next release there will be support for crcs. I will look inside the description files and search for a matching filename or a matching crc value.

Also are there any plans to implement a scraper using something like Video Game Rebirth to pull info and box art?

It is on my list but has a low prio at the moment.

The background image is a zoomed title screenshots ?

Yes, it is. I hope it will not look too bad on a large screen. But you can configure any image category to be used as background. There will be a configuration option like this: <fileTypeForMainViewBackground>screenshottitle</fileTypeForMainViewBackground>.

[wimpy]

Yes, it is. I hope it will not look too bad on a large screen. But you can configure any image category to be used as background. There will be a configuration option like this: <fileTypeForMainViewBackground>screenshottitle</fileTypeForMainViewBackground>.

Could this be done? set <fileTypeForMainViewBackground>SystemFanart</f.....
to make a HQ fanart for each system?

[VictorV]

This looks pretty sweet for a start. Took a fast look at the code, and it seems like you could gain som ease of development if you set window properties in the script, and reading those with label formatting instead of using the python interface for this.

Take a look at: label parsing, Image Control - info tag and InfoLabels

[malte]

Could this be done? set <fileTypeForMainViewBackground>SystemFanart</f.....
to make a HQ fanart for each system?

Not in the current version. But I am already thinking about how to integrate publisher or developer images and with this there could also be a system specific image category.

This looks pretty sweet for a start. Took a fast look at the code, and it seems like you could gain som ease of development if you set window properties in the script, and reading those with label formatting instead of using the python interface for this.

Thanks for checking the code! It is very welcome. I am new to XBMC (and python) scripting so there will be a lot of things that can be done better. I am reading a lot about skinning and other XBMC stuff in the last days and I am (slowly) moving in this direction. But I am happy about any hint on this way;-)

If you are interested in doing more on this project just tell me. It would be great to have some co-workers on this.

[VictorV]

....I am reading a lot about skinning and other XBMC stuff in the last days and I am (slowly) moving in this direction

Yeah, I've been there

If you are interested in doing more on this project just tell me. It would be great to have some co-workers on this.

I might help out in near future, but in the moment I working on the finishing touches of a game library specification proposal in XML and flat file format. You might want to have a look at it, and maybe come with suggestion yourself.

[grassmunk]

Speaking about the UI, what (if any) are your plant to use the "Xtras" package due to be release anyday now?

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=660135

http://www.ressurectionxtras.net/index.php

[djvj]

Will flv intro videos work with this? Emumovies.com has full collections of no-intro named sets that are in flv format to support the Hyperspin FE. This would make it a lot easier to setup in xbmc.