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clrmame Discussion / font selection test build

« on: 08 September 2011, 22:26 »

You suffer from the easter-europe utf8 tree control font issue?
You always wanted a larger font for the scanner output?
You got the circular zip rename issues?

Well, then get this test build here and unrar it over your installation:
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/cmpFont.rar

This build fixes circular rename issues and got a font selector. It will change the font for the scanner tree output and the set-information tree and list control.
You can find the font selector in the "View" context menu of the scanner (right click in the scanner tree window, select View, then Select Font at the bottom.
For the Easter Europe UTF8 issue you should select a font which supports all characters (most likely Arial or Segoe UI do...).

Enjoy testing....I will enjoy holidays....

122

News & Communication / clrmamepro 4.00b released

« on: 08 September 2011, 14:54 »

well, a little in between holiday release to fix the reported issues...


clrmamepro 4.0b

fixed: rebuilder ignored 'recompress'
fixed: compress to rar/7z created zip files
fixed: little typo in systems dialog
fixed: stats are not kept correctly over sessions (empty stats window)
fixed: biossets with set romof are not handled as biossets (sys1 with soundboard)
misc:  don't write utf8 BOM for old-style dats


for the ctreectrl/utf8/easter europe issue, see the other post on my board...

123

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 4.00b released

« on: 07 September 2011, 22:10 »

well, a little in between holiday release to fix the reported issues...


clrmamepro 4.0b

fixed: rebuilder ignored 'recompress'
fixed: compress to rar/7z created zip files
fixed: little typo in systems dialog
fixed: stats are not kept correctly over sessions (empty stats window)
fixed: biossets with set romof are not handled as biossets (sys1 with soundboard)
misc:  don't write utf8 BOM for old-style dats


for the ctreectrl/utf8/easter europe issue, see the other post on my board...

124

clrmame Discussion / CTreeCtrl, Eastern Europe Region setting and utf8 characters

« on: 07 September 2011, 21:45 »

well, some little research pointed me to the correct direction....

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/31482515/common-controls-and-unicode-support-problem.aspx

funnily enough a TreeCtrl uses a different font than e.g. an edit box and that used font doesn't support all characters...so in that case you see placeholders like blocks or pipe symbols in the control. Don't worry, internally everything is handled correctly, so you files will be correct...it's just a display issue...

The solution is to switch the font (e.g. to MS Shell Dlg) within the application for the tree control....something which will come in a later release

125

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 4.00a released

« on: 01 September 2011, 21:39 »

clrmamepro 4.0a

fixed: crash in filedialog of "add Profile"
misc:  smarter is-bios-rom check if bios definitions hold identical checksums
misc:  fixed homepage and forum link in installer

126

News & Communication / clrmamepro 4.00 released

« on: 31 August 2011, 17:10 »

Finally...and after 8 years of a 3.x cycle....

clrmamepro 4.0

misc: full unicode build
misc: full support for UTF8 characters in file/folder names, files within
      archives (7z/rar/zip) and datfiles (XML and old format)

      The default encoding of xml datfiles is UTF8. The default storing method
      in archives is UTF8 (for zip, with no extra field usage). Current versions
      of Winrar, Winzip, 7z (just to name a few) support UF8 stored names. There
      might be other 3rd party tools (which some people use to rezip/share
      which might fail (they only work with local page encoding). Tough luck...

      All textfiles in the clrmamepro environment are now saved as UTF8. You
      can use your old setup, since it loads them in ASCII and saves them as
      UTF8. XML files are stored without a BOM (byte ordered mark), non-xml
      files with a BOM. You should not use newly written files with old
      versions of clrmamepro. I recommend a good texteditor to work with UF8
      datfiles, e.g. notepad++, available here http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

misc: completely switched to latest ziparchive library for all zip related
      operations. This includes reading, in-place renaming and no-recompress
      copy. This results in a faster rebuilder (no recompress) and faster
      rename operations (scanner). Actual scanning speed is roughly the same.
   
added: devices support, devices and device_ref elements are parsed, exported,
       an own system default path for devices can be added, select sets
       supports filtering by devices and device_refs

removed: included doucmentation, switching to online pdf docs soon
removed: Settings->Compressor->Zip, obsolete due to ziparchive usage
removed: Settings->Compressor->Oem/Ansi conversion, obsolete due to UTF8 switch
removed: Scanner->Advanced->
         detect sets in wrong sysdefpaths
         move sets to correct sysdefpath
         chd use sysdefault assignments
         use sysdefault paths for fix missing
         Such options are automatically enabled internally now if sysdefpaths
         are setup. The first two ones require an unneeded check+fix though.

misc:  aligned "allow not separated bios sets" & "split bios sets"
misc:  directly jump to profiler or settings instead of prompting
fixed: xml parser doesn't handle multiple comments on the same line correctly
fixed: dat resource tag export for non-xml datfiles is broken

127

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 4.00 released

« on: 30 August 2011, 22:21 »

Finally...and after 8 years of a 3.x cycle....

clrmamepro 4.0

misc: full unicode build
misc: full support for UTF8 characters in file/folder names, files within
      archives (7z/rar/zip) and datfiles (XML and old format)

      The default encoding of xml datfiles is UTF8. The default storing method
      in archives is UTF8 (for zip, with no extra field usage). Current versions
      of Winrar, Winzip, 7z (just to name a few) support UF8 stored names. There
      might be other 3rd party tools (which some people use to rezip/share
      which might fail (they only work with local page encoding). Tough luck...

      All textfiles in the clrmamepro environment are now saved as UTF8. You
      can use your old setup, since it loads them in ASCII and saves them as
      UTF8. XML files are stored without a BOM (byte ordered mark), non-xml
      files with a BOM. You should not use newly written files with old
      versions of clrmamepro. I recommend a good texteditor to work with UF8
      datfiles, e.g. notepad++, available here http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

misc: completely switched to latest ziparchive library for all zip related
      operations. This includes reading, in-place renaming and no-recompress
      copy. This results in a faster rebuilder (no recompress) and faster
      rename operations (scanner). Actual scanning speed is roughly the same.
   
added: devices support, devices and device_ref elements are parsed, exported,
       an own system default path for devices can be added, select sets
       supports filtering by devices and device_refs

removed: included doucmentation, switching to online pdf docs soon
removed: Settings->Compressor->Zip, obsolete due to ziparchive usage
removed: Settings->Compressor->Oem/Ansi conversion, obsolete due to UTF8 switch
removed: Scanner->Advanced->
         detect sets in wrong sysdefpaths
         move sets to correct sysdefpath
         chd use sysdefault assignments
         use sysdefault paths for fix missing
         Such options are automatically enabled internally now if sysdefpaths
         are setup. The first two ones require an unneeded check+fix though.

misc:  aligned "allow not separated bios sets" & "split bios sets"
misc:  directly jump to profiler or settings instead of prompting
fixed: xml parser doesn't handle multiple comments on the same line correctly
fixed: dat resource tag export for non-xml datfiles is broken

128

clrmame Discussion / Work In Progress

« on: 04 July 2011, 20:13 »

Well, yes...pretty no news recently....but I'm alive and currently playing around with this:

http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/wip_july.png

Don't ask me when it's done....not much free time these days and several things (e.g. packer support for this) to do...so don't expect anything anytime soon....just wanted to say PEEEEEP....(the names are actually coming from the MESS snes hash files......just took them for some example lines...)


(Update)
ah..nice...it works (e.g. rebuilder) already with decompressed files which I did not expect actually...The shown file and folder was done via a rebuilt

http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/wip_july2.png

(again, just some dummy test files..ignore naming, sizes, datestamp and checksum)

129

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.138a

« on: 18 May 2011, 21:26 »

3.138a

added: missing but fixable chds can get fixed automatically by fix-missing
added: append option for rebuilder log
misc:  redisplay dir2dat window after dat completion to avoid minimizing issues
misc:  dat export will only export active sets
misc:  added trimming for subfolder rom/etc defintions

130

News & Communication / clrmamepro 3.138a

« on: 18 May 2011, 21:26 »

3.138a

added: missing but fixable chds can get fixed automatically by fix-missing
added: append option for rebuilder log
misc:  redisplay dir2dat window after dat completion to avoid minimizing issues
misc:  dat export will only export active sets
misc:  added trimming for subfolder rom/etc defintions

131

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.138

« on: 22 March 2011, 21:09 »

added: batcher rebuild options for always compress / never recompress and packer type
misc:  updated winrar dll
fixed: cleaning parsed data always uses yes to nodump replacement
fixed: crash bug when removing full archives from sample paths

132

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.137d

« on: 01 March 2011, 20:45 »

fixed: removed trimming of xml attribute values for now since it disallows whitespace separators for export lists

133

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.137c released

« on: 28 February 2011, 21:04 »

3.137c

fixed: 7z add/remove fails for files starting with @
fixed: scanner popup menu functions to delete/move incomplete/notfixed sets got rare issues when deleting files
fixed: removed very old chd extension workaround which causes issues now with chds with "."
fixed: xml parser misses attribute name/value trimming

134

News & Communication / clrmamepro 3.137c released

« on: 28 February 2011, 21:04 »

3.137c

fixed: 7z add/remove fails for files starting with @
fixed: scanner popup menu functions to delete/move incomplete/notfixed sets got rare issues when deleting files
fixed: removed very old chd extension workaround which causes issues now with chds with "."
fixed: xml parser misses attribute name/value trimming

135

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.137b

« on: 13 January 2011, 22:18 »

<a href="http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/">3.137b</a>

added: import/export of upcoming MAME flag "ismechanical"
       setinformation's 'Select Sets' supports variable %M=1 to mark mechanicals
       Split system default path "Standard" into "Standard" and "Mechanical", ie you
       can split mechanical sets in an own path. Note, if a mechanical set is also using a bios
       the belonging bios path is used since that binding got a higher priority
added: scanner advance option to keep disabled sets as unneeded (instead of ignoring them)
misc:  changed a bit the show missing behaviour of sets which only consist of nodumps and samples
misc:  correct handling of not possible profile renaming of hyperspin/offline/software list dats
misc:  for now, stop parsing dats if 1st closed main element is found
misc:  supporting chds in mess software lists

136

News & Communication / clrmamepro 3.137b

« on: 13 January 2011, 22:18 »

3.137b

added: import/export of upcoming MAME flag "ismechanical"
       setinformation's 'Select Sets' supports variable %M=1 to mark mechanicals
       Split system default path "Standard" into "Standard" and "Mechanical", ie you
       can split mechanical sets in an own path. Note, if a mechanical set is also using a bios
       the belonging bios path is used since that binding got a higher priority
added: scanner advance option to keep disabled sets as unneeded (instead of ignoring them)
misc:  changed a bit the show missing behaviour of sets which only consist of nodumps and samples
misc:  correct handling of not possible profile renaming of hyperspin/offline/software list dats
misc:  for now, stop parsing dats if 1st closed main element is found
misc:  supporting chds in mess software lists

137

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.137a

« on: 09 December 2010, 20:47 »

3.137a

misc: support of parsing rom size entries in hexformat (0x...)

138

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.137

« on: 24 November 2010, 21:57 »

3.137

fixed: rare external packer file not found prompt issue
fixed: removing more than one file via external packers fails
fixed: several www profiler issues fix:
       - does not load compressed xmls when generated via php
       - wrong sorting after download
       - popupmenu "refresh datfiles from" does not work correctly
       - not always remembering selected tree/list item after refresh
added: www profiler shows author as column
misc:  changed progress window and button bar design
       Thanks to Alex Schütz for the artwork.
misc:  updated unrar dll
misc:  changed tempfolder failure text to uac warning

139

News & Communication / clrmamepro 3.137

« on: 24 November 2010, 21:57 »

3.137

fixed: rare external packer file not found prompt issue
fixed: removing more than one file via external packers fails
fixed: several www profiler issues fix:
       - does not load compressed xmls when generated via php
       - wrong sorting after download
       - popupmenu "refresh datfiles from" does not work correctly
       - not always remembering selected tree/list item after refresh
added: www profiler shows author as column
misc:  changed progress window and button bar design
       Thanks to Alex Schütz for the artwork.
misc:  updated unrar dll
misc:  changed tempfolder failure text to uac warning

140

clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 3.136 released

« on: 03 October 2010, 19:12 »

3.136

misc: slightly optimized rebuilding speed of decompressed files by using MoveFile instead of CopyFile if possible
misc: slightly optimized scanning speed of decompressed sets by using hash caches
misc: manufacturer tag isn't mandatory anymore in dtd and won't appear in export if empty
misc: show prompt if external packers are not available
fixed: profiler loading issues when having mess and mame xmls handy and defining mess dats in engine.cfg
fixed: utf boms (byte order marks) let the dat detection fail