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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 24 August 2011, 07:22 »

If the dats are structural no ok, cmpro won't load it...if it's just a bad character conversion it is loaded (however bad characters are shown then)...
I doubt that such dats cause a crash...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 24 August 2011, 05:16 »

win7 no crash
winxp no crash when running debug or release from Visual Studio and on your files
winxp crash when running your exe on your files
winxp crash when running release compile on your files outside of Visual Studio

It seems to be related to a string class though...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 23 August 2011, 22:04 »

argh...debug build on XP doesn't show any issue....smells like a compiler / optimizer issue...now that'll take some time to find that.....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 23 August 2011, 20:10 »

seems to be a weird one....since if it's a null pointer or wrong index it should crash everywhere...
wonder what the debugger will show....as soon as I've installed the development environment on the virtual machine....which takes some time...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 23 August 2011, 19:45 »

Coool......I got a crash
...but only under Windows XP (Virtual Machine)...not under Win7....

but now I should be able to fix that....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 23 August 2011, 19:28 »

thanks for the files.....however...it does not crash here...
I've deleted several single profiles from your mess folder, nothing....I removed all...nothing....I removed the mess folder itself...nothing....
...and tried that several times...no issue

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 23 August 2011, 07:52 »

well, currently I'm at work and have to fiddle with JS/XSLT and soap requests You have to wait approx 10 hours....
but this really sounds like an array access tries to get data from a previous (now invalid index due to deletion) and that leads to a crash....sounds pretty easy to fix as soon as I found the place...but I still wonder why this happens after a long batch job where no index is removed or added..anyway...I will check it...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 23 August 2011, 06:59 »

Sounds like an array index access issue...however I wonder why it crashes for you after a batch run (which doesn't remove any profiles)...and actually this should also happen on the last official, non-unicode build.....anyway...I will do tests later today...and I guess I should check both, 64 and 32 bit

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 22 August 2011, 16:11 »

well...screenshots of the windows error message won't help me...it would help me to tell me *where*/*when* it happens...
Right click and delete mess files? right click where? profiler? scanner?
I will do some research this evening...but if you can provide the files somewhere, that would be great...
"randomly" of course doesn't sound that good....maybe a not initialized variable...don't know...need to repeat it...then the debugger will catch it....


I've done several scans with and without rebuilder and never had that error....so it's not that common
So...a full dump of your folder would be a start...plus instructions how to repeat it...
...or maybe it only happens when scanning zip files....or only rar ... or only 7z files....? Try to minimize the scope...
...and of course turn off virusscanners...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 22 August 2011, 12:32 »

erm...so what are the exact steps for you issue again? With all these "working" things, I don't see what belongs to the error and what not...Please only list the issue again..thanks


ok..after rereading it's happening while the profiler reloads the profiles/datfiles after a completed batch run....interesting...trying to repeat it here somehow....if you can create a minimum setup....would be great.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 21 August 2011, 20:09 »

so so so...coming closer to a release I guess (currently facing maybe last week in August)...
Thanks to the testers all reported issues are now history...

Additionally some preliminary devices / device_ref was added...well at least they are not handled as bios sets anymore and you can assign a path (like standard or mechanical) to them. There are some restrictions (like device != bios, only one device_ref) but time will tell what MAME will do and what cmpro should check.

On my list now is some final testing (e.g. with set-subfolders) and actually a new documentation....

Thanks again to all testers

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 19 August 2011, 21:50 »

ok...fixed the clipboard issue and added partly added "device" support

more tomorrow...rar/7z fix and finalize device support

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 19 August 2011, 07:05 »

sounds good! thanks for testing...
1 sounds like tiny bug which maybe related to some char* to TCHAR conversions...I will check that...should be an easy fix
2 sounds hmm interesting...especially since I've done some rar rebuilds lately....but I will check that too...

in the meanwhile I'm working on the "devices" stuff for new MAME....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 17 August 2011, 20:24 »

Some news..

- completely replaced own zip routines with library. This includes inplace rename, copy-without-recompress (which is actually just a few lines with the lib...coool..hooked up scanner/rebuilder no-recompress to use this...)....some speedtests will follow....
- removed: rebuilderAdvanced buffer and auto mem options for recompress
- removed: compressor / zip settings / full zip structure scan

Next step....testing...and having a look at the new device_ref MAME stuff....


Update...
Little rebuilder no-recompress test....

2315 single files in 240 zips, total zip size is ~3GB (somehow reminds me of some famous bios based collection...

New cmpro: 4 min 45 secs
Old cmpro: 7 min 21 secs

yummi.....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 16 August 2011, 12:47 »

I told you that your version is only for a quick test. It uses some not filled structures since I only hooked up a quick'n dirty lib based reader for you which only fills the main attributes for a utf8 name check. Other internally attributes were not correctly filled so that routines like zip in place rename, no-recompress copy and some others will fail....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 13 August 2011, 20:02 »

one quick test...

a full MAME 143u2 scan (fullly diskcache buffered though): old and new scanner 18 seconds....maybe the old one a little bit faster (17seconds) but hey, the old one was really optimized down to very limited reading of some fields only....

a full rename of MAME32 snap files in the zip (3688 times *.png -> *.xxx ): old cmpro 36 seconds...new one 10 seconds yummi....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 12 August 2011, 21:23 »

ok...some fine progress this evening...

remember, I had to adjust all internal ziproutines to fully use the lib...fine...wonder why I didn't do it before since it's pretty easy....so say goodbye to strict scanning option, some internal zip repair etc...

Renaming files (or multiple files) within a zip is just some few lines of code now....so inplace rename, case fix, datetime fix are all done...

Still on the list (and that will take a bit more work I guess) is the rebuilder no-recompress option...but the lib got something for this I bet....

Will do some speedtest of heavy renaming in zips or reading zips to see how the lib performs...actually I think it will be faster.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 12 August 2011, 12:55 »

as I said...."later" 

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 12 August 2011, 07:23 »

As a father myself I know how these nights are....so all the best for your daughter...

Good to hear that the new reader works fine (again, don't use your special build for any real scanning/fixing. Actually fixing names or no-recompress will use the old routines which will create wrong chars...or even worse since they rely on some attributes which the new reader doesn't fill in yet).

cmpro fonts....hmm...not in the first planned release
torrentzip....hmm...I did already mention that this is not my scope
compressor settings...well...when it comes to zip, for now I would go with the standard ones (level 9, deflate) which the ziparchive lib brings....for 7z/rar you can modify the settings/compressor/7z (rar) edit fields with your own commandline params....yes...I expect winrar and 7z to be installed and located in your %PATH% environment. Otherwise you need to adjust the location in the compressor settings.

So next steps: replace old custom zip routines with ziparchive class calls.....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 11 August 2011, 20:49 »

well, I quickly wrote a zip parser based on the already used ziparchive lib and it seems to solve the remaining issues with extra-field utf8 etc....(I need some confirmation from oxyandy though)

Problem is....I need to get rid of all the other internal in-place-rename and no-recompress copy routines...The good news is that the library already got such functions, however I need to adopt them...which takes time...which I currently don't really have...

I will have a week end of August....and some hours here and there till then....