SimpleLauncher - Some Ideas for Enhancements

[bigroy00]

I really like SimpleLauncher, it does just what I need to manage my emulation collection. I would respectfully like to suggest some enhancements - I am not a programmer so I dont know if these are simple or not

1. Images Add the system image folder to the system.xml so you can specify where associated images are stored - in case you want them to be somewhere other than SimpleLauncher\images
2. Select Letter buttons Put # at the beginning (before "A"). Also could these be multi-select, maybe by using Shift/Ctrl or failing that some way to select "All"?
3. YouTube and Info buttons Could the user be able to build their own URL's with some tokens such as and amend the current defaults?
   Thank you for your hard work !
   Roy (UK)

[drpetersonfernandes]

Thank you for the support, Roy.

Check out release 2.9.0.90.

If you find any bug please report.

[bigroy00]

All the new features work really well, many thanks for your prompt response!

Some really minor suggestions follow, please feel free to ignore!

The vertical scroll should reset to the top when you select a different button i.e. if you click "A" then scroll down to the bottom of those games, then click "B", the scroll position remains near the bottom of the B games etc.
Same behaviour happens with the next and prev buttons

The app window status (minimized/maximized/normal) changes to maximized when many of the menu options are changed, instead of retaining the previous status, maybe this is intentional?

A nice to have feature would be to have a separate default.png within each of the images[system] folders so you can have a different default picture for each system. If not found then use images\default.png

Another nice to have would be to display a message box on right-clicking on a game which displays the full command line that will be run if you left-click (for debugging typos) E.g.
"..\emulators\retroarch\retroarch.exe"
-L "..\emulators\retroarch\cores\puae2021_libretro.dll"
--config "..\emulators\retroarch\config\PUAE 2021\PUAE 2021.cfg"
-f
"..\games\Amiga A500\Aladdin.zip"
If you wanted to be really fancy you could check if each of these parts exists and highlight any parts not found

Just a note on portability that you might want to include in the wiki:
If you have everything contained within a folder (e.g. E:\Retrogames) then you can replace all the references to "E:\Retrogames" with ".." on each system config page, to make the installation portable. Doing a search and replace on the system.xml could also work, as long as it is backed up first!

Thanks once again

[drpetersonfernandes]

I have implemented some of your suggestions.

Check out release 2.10.0.10.

If you find any bugs, please report them.

[bigroy00]

I am in the process of adding my systems and every thing is going well. I have used a lot of other launchers that tend to become over-bloated with databases, animations etc but leave you with little control. This launcher is what I've been looking for. Thank you

[drpetersonfernandes]

I'm glad you like it. If you have any other suggestions, you can send them to me.