Re: [Freevo-devel] Does the Games plugin work in Freevo 2.0?

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Lack
Gorka Olaizola wrote: >I've configured GAMES_ITEMS for running a NES emulator but when I >enter the "Games" section the only directory that it scans is the CDROM. > >I think the directory with the .nes roms it's ok in the config file. > >Does the plugin work? > > >-- > > It did as of the patch.

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: games patch

2006-03-26 Thread Chris Lack
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:54:48 -0500 "Daniel C. Casimiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Sorry for the late follow-up, but I have been busy. I started working > on the games section because it was a useful way to learn the freevo > graphics system. I stopped working on it because the graph

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: games metadata

2006-03-22 Thread Chris Lack
Just for me to understand: you don't get the metadata by parsing the the rom itself, you get it by just building a checksum over the rom and look it up in a dict? That doesn't look like something for kaa.metadata to me, but maybe other disagree. Can you at least detect _if_ it is a rom? This is

[Freevo-devel] games metadata

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Lack
Hi, I've begun the work on adding metadata for games/roms. Currently each type has a typeitem.py and typedb.py file. The typedb.py is just a big dictionary keyed by CRC values. This data has been pulled from the mess project via a small script I wrote that parses their .hsi files and spits

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: games.db

2006-03-20 Thread Chris Lack
I have just finished implementing a working virtual directory system using dynamically created/removed directories under vfs.BASE/games. I also have the multiple rom directory per item support working. Both are implemented via a games centric Listing class [GameListing] (which is backwards co

[Freevo-devel] games.db

2006-03-19 Thread Chris Lack
Would it be acceptable to use an sqlite database within the games plugin? I'm wanting to catalog data on a per-rom basis, using the roms CRC value as the identifier. Data cataloged would include Name, Country, Company, Year, Genre etc. Eventually I would like to use this data to build the ga

[Freevo-devel] games patch

2006-03-19 Thread Chris Lack
Hi, I've patched up the games system to be fairly functional. I integrated the existing individual plugins into the main plugin since they weren't doing enough to justify having them as a seperate plugin needing to be activated. The current functionality is pretty close to if not on the level

[Freevo-devel] small weakref patch

2006-03-16 Thread Chris Lack
Hi, I found that I needed to make these small changes to keep the current freevo 2 cvs from crashing on my system when trying to access directories. Is anyone working on the games system at the moment? weakref-fixup.patch Description: Binary data