2015-12-14, 22:31
(2015-12-14, 14:59)lollo78 Wrote: Nice job Rufoo!
I love Advanced Launcher over RCB for the same reasons, but it require some works to make it perfect (not only dead scrapers).
My launcher.xml file is more than 11 MB and when I start AL it require a lot of time. It's so frustrating (at leat on raspberry Pi 2)!
I think that this is related to the AL concept to save all the informations inside one file only. So, when it become huge, the addon have some issue to parse quickly all the info.
RCB, instead, use a different approach: it creates an .nfo file for each games.
Thanks.
11MB!? Jesus. That seems really quite large. You must have 1000s of ROMs or something listed. I haven't taken much of a look at the launcher.xml generation / parsing side of things beyond it now adding a <rating> flag to launchers and being able to read it.
(2015-12-14, 14:59)lollo78 Wrote: Other issue is the limited views inside skins.
Skin devs doens't support AL because the addon doesn't have setted the correct content type. So, it can't show all of its potential.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this or rather, I don't know what you mean by "doesn't have settled the correct content type". Please clarify.
(2015-12-14, 14:59)lollo78 Wrote: So, if you continue the development I think that the whole community will appreciate. I'll do it for sure!
Could you do the same mod also for Mimic Skin?
As I said, I may do it as a leisurely thing but 1. Still getting my head around all the scripts in AL. 2. I'm not even entirely certain what is broken / what needs fixing. 3. Most advancements would be made in mind for the viewtypes I build. When you ask about mod for Mimic Skin, if you're referring to the Advanced Launcher mod that will work on any skin, if you're referring to the SexyCirrus views, sorry, Cirrus is my home skin and I won't be making viewtypes for others.
(2015-12-14, 14:59)lollo78 Wrote: Have you created a Github fork with the Wikipedia scraper? Or could you share the link to try it?
Thx
Bye
No, I just did this on my machine at home. Haven't created any forks. As I said previously, I don't really know what the rules are around such things.