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[s_bastian]

AFAIK DatWorkshop is already doing this....

http://www.emulab.it/simone/?page_id=7

[Roman]

http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/cmpro32_update_20090820.rar
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/cmpro64_update_20090820.rar

today's features:
- fixed the double rename issue
- replaced ? with ""
- changed progress window slightly
- fixed some index stuff
- added check of "replaced sets" (aka the mentioned mshvsf thingie...)...well..what it does is: check new dat names against old ones...if there is a match and that old name is not in the list of renames (where kept names are included), show the set as "replaced".

Go and test a bit

[f205v]

AFAIK DatWorkshop is already doing this....

http://www.emulab.it/simone/?page_id=7

OH, yes! I'm using it, and it's good. But everything in one single tool would be marvelous!

[s_bastian]

mmm sounds like people wanting to play everything with only MAME.....

Anyway:

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*|glass|glass10|matched by unique set hash
*|glassa|glass10a|matched by unique set hash
*||glass|replaced set

* s_bastian is happy

Now, let's go back hunting for more bugs, but I believe they will be very hard to find now....

[Roman]

wow..more than a day and no reports yet ...

[s_bastian]

busy at work, that's the reason!

(only half true, I made some more, also making some redundancy checks with some of my scripts, and still nothing strange appeared
This is the tool I needed to rollback all the catlist, thanks man!

[Roman]

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=199520&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

made a little advertising there, too

[Roman]

well....some more coding on it...however no wip exe this time...

- moved rename wizard to profiler
- windowpos/columnswidth and options are saved now
- "diff" buttons checks if a re-parsing of dats is needed
- added 3rd dat mode which allows you to load a dat and apply the found changes on it. This can be in set or/and in rom mode.

Rom Mode: Each rom in each set is checked for an old name match (without taking extensions into account) and the name is updated to the new one (replaced sets and new sets don't play a role here).

Set Mode: Each set name is checked for a match and the name is being updated (again, replaced sets and new sets don't play a role here).

Modified dat is saved to *_new.dat/.xml.

So you can e.g. load a MAME 133 dat and a MAME 133u3 dat and apply the renames on the flyer datfile.
Parsing + diff the 2 dats only has to be once....after that you can exchange the dats to mod.

Open things:

- optionally don't ignore extensions in "apply on rom" mode
- "apply on set" mode is not that easy as you might think....currently it only updates the name. I plan to include description, year, manufacturer, sourcefile and cloneof/romof.....but still, this isn't the full set defintion, so the modified dat has to be handled with care....

Anyway...I started this thing because I didn't want to rename the artwork dats manually.....and something which is a bit more accurate than mamediff....looks like it becomes reality soon....

[s_bastian]

Here I am again, did you miss me???

from 103u2 to 103u3:

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*|sf2049se||double rename
*|sf2049te||double rename
*||sf2049se|replaced set
*||sf2049te|replaced set
These should be two "matched by unique set hash", set is composed by 1 rom + 1 chd and nothing changes from one version to the other, unless I overloocked something in the dats...

[Roman]

The sets do differ...the u2 ones all had a bad dump listed (which influences the set hash).
However there was a little mistake in handling bad dumps which is now fixed.

|sf2049|sf2049|matched by description
|sf2049se|sf2049se|matched by description
|sf2049te|sf2049te|matched by description

[Roman]

Open question...
...does it make sense to apply (besides setname) description/year/cloneof/romof/manufacturer from the new dat to the 3rd dat....

hmmm....

[s_bastian]

The sets do differ...the u2 ones all had a bad dump listed (which influences the set hash).
However there was a little mistake in handling bad dumps which is now fixed.

Missed the "bad dump" thing, anyway, good it is settled

Now waiting for next beta...

...does it make sense to apply (besides setname) description/year/cloneof/romof/manufacturer from the new dat to the 3rd dat....

Mmmm I would make an option, OR check if these informations are already present in the 3rd dat and apply only if they are already there. EG, a dat made with dir2dat, like most of the snap ones are, have no such informations and they are not mandatory because in snap collection there is no actual dependency. So these informations will be redundant. In case of ROM/SAMPLE dats some of these infos ARE actually useful, so it should be important to report there too.

[Roman]

yeah..maybe another option to rename the other tags....that should be possible.

...and I don't think there will be another beta, I more think of a release this week since my new home's internet will be hopefully active next week and my old one will be shutdown.....I expect a much worse scenario with no access for some days

Time to moooove.....

[s_bastian]

Hope you will not have the problem I had with the last move... it took my ISP 2 weekd to try to arrange the move, he continued to re-activate the line on the old number. I solved changing ISP.....