Jon Wanderer wrote:
Hi there,
I've spent a few months assembling and using my mythbox, and I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who has put this software together--it's great. I saw some room for improvement in the mythgame interface that the updates in 0.18 made possible and I put this patch together (attached).
This is a simple patch that adds to Barney's MythGame improvements. It expands the two hardcoded nodes to six by adding the ability to see all of your games sorted by name, system type, year and genre. This makes it considerably easier for me to browse through the 11,000-odd games I have spanning 5 game systems as I don't have to leave mythgame to reconfigure the sort string to get a different view my collection.
Ultimately it would be neat if you could easily search games by name or jump around alphabetically, say. And it would be even neater if the nodes' levels/filter strings were stored in the database and were customizable. But until someone with more time and skill than I have takes a crack at it, this should make mythgame easier to use.
Cheers,
Jon
Hi Jon,
Personally, I'm never too keen on hardcoding stuff like this - for every person with 11,000 games there's probably someone else with 100 games or so who doesn't need all these different roots.
What may be a better approach would be to increase the number of root nodes (to 6?, or maybe 8?), but have each one configurable on the settings page. For each node you could add the root name (that appears in the tree) to the configuration options, and change the code to ignore the node if no levels are specified. Probably make favourites-only configurable for each root node as well. This would enable you to set up your system with your six root nodes, and others to use less if they wanted. Using the standard settings page approach would also enable the settings to be saved in the database.
Ideally, we should come up with a dynamic solution which had no hardcoded maximum number of roots, but I never managed to think of a good way of doing that. I think Ed Wildgoose was also looking at something along these lines a while back - not sure how that is going :-)
Cheers,
Barney
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