PickleLauncher: issues, requests

[zapman]

Pickle, first of all thank you very much for your nice launcher software. I love it on the latest Snes emu!


What I don't like so much is the button layout, that's why I suggested some improvements in this thread. I changed my own config file to fix the problems that I have but I couldn't change everything I wanted. That's why I have this feature request:


I would like to ask if you could allow more then one button presses for the same action in the launcher. I would like to be able to start a game with the A-Button, as well as with the "START" button on the Pandora. Also, going back a folder I would like to assign on digital-left as well as B-button. Would that be possible for a future version of the Pickle Launcher?


And there is one more thing I noticed: when using the search function, sometimes the echo of what I typed in is not correcty shown on the top right corner (pickleLauncher v0.21 used in the latest snes emu 1.39ff.20111205.2). If I type "mario" for example, only "mar" shows up at the top right cornerm but it does use the whole "mario" string to search. If I then press backspace once, it show "mari", so that's correct again. It's a minor glitch and it does not happen each time I try but I thought I might report it here.


Cheers,


-zapman

 

[Pickle]

So reading through your comments I think it basically comes down to being able to map multiple keys/buttons to an action.


The last changes I made in the svn were to correct the drawing of the filter text, i thought i saw a post by Ivanovic he used the svn code. Please check that your using the most recent stuff, cause it should be fixed.


Also based on some other things you said I think i need to add a help button that displays a screen with all the actions and their button mappings. Then maybe at some point allow it to remap within the application.


Thanks for your feedback, it is appreciated.

 

[ivanovic]

The last changes I made in the svn were to correct the drawing of the filter text, i thought i saw a post by Ivanovic he used the svn code. Please check that your using the most recent stuff, cause it should be fixed.

Yes, I uploaded an updated Snes9x4P some hours ago which includes the latest picklelauncher. I think that is the version zapman is using as of Snes9x4P "1.39ff.20111205.2" (.1 only had picklelauncher from some time in march). So any "issues" reported reflect the "current state".

 

[Pickle]

The last changes I made in the svn were to correct the drawing of the filter text, i thought i saw a post by Ivanovic he used the svn code. Please check that your using the most recent stuff, cause it should be fixed.

Yes, I uploaded an updated Snes9x4P some hours ago which includes the latest picklelauncher. I think that is the version zapman is using as of Snes9x4P "1.39ff.20111205.2" (.1 only had picklelauncher from some time in march). So any "issues" reported reflect the "current state".

Darn i really though i had fixed everything with the filter text.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I've got a bit of a complaint. Y and X used to page up and page down, respectively. Now Y does nothing, and X goes to the previous folder. Can you please return to the previous method? It was much better in my opinion.

 

[renegadechic]

Wasn't sure if this was an inappropriate gravedig or sticking to the relevant thread, however I am having some issues with picklelauncher pnds, specifically getting them to work with Windows Shares on gigolo.


The way I have things set up is that all my media is on a NAS server, so videos, music, roms, photos, etc. I connect with gigolo on a windows share just fine and i can explore all the folders with no problems. I can also use gpfce, picodrive and rockbox for playing music and nes and genesis roms over the network.


However, when I try to do the same with snes9x, gambatte, panplayer or mupen64 either the shared drives do not show up in /home/nick/.gvfs or when I try to access the .gvfs folder it just crashes. Really not sure how to approach fixing it or anything.


Any ideas?

 

[Pickle]

This is the right place to put it, as I hope some day to revisit this thread and make all the changes requested.


My guess without looking back into the code is that the . might be causing problems. I recall I filtered . and .. out so maybe hidden folders dont work with it.


Can you try a path with only alphanumerics?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

An issue i forgot to report: touchscreen doesn't work under Slackware.


I suppose that you use tslib ?

 

[Pickle]

I use SDL which uses tslib

 

[Linux-SWAT]

I had to remove tslib on 14.0 because it crashed the desktop :/.


Seems that it's not maintained anymore.

 

[Pickle]

So did you use something else to replace it? If you get SDL to use your alternative then SDL apps will work.


I have to imagine there are many apps that use SDL for mouse events.

 

[Linux-SWAT]

I use this in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "touchscreen"

Driver  "evdev"

Option   "Calibration"  "3944 112 3808 158"

Option   "Width"  "800"

Option   "Height"  "480"

Option  "Device"  "/dev/input/touchscreen0"

Option			 "CorePointer" "true"

Option  "SendCoreEvents" "true"

EndSection

 

[ekianjo]

Pickle, one question : I saw that the latest Pickle launcher sources are from April 2013. Is there a build readily available somewhere, or is it required to compile it ? 

Or is it already included in the firmware 1.55 ? 

Please confirm. 

 

[Pickle]

Best way to make sure you have the latest is to compile from source.

I did put a compiled bin here: pickle.gp2x.de/picklelauncher

This should be fairly recent.