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General Category => General Discussion & Help => Topic started by: tonesmalone on December 23, 2016, 08:42:01 AM
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Hi all,
Is it possible to use the layout scrolling text facility to display the game name from the database? I see that the wiki only mentions that scrolling text can be used to pull from a text file.
Ideally, I'd like to replace the reloadableText used for the game name tag in a layout to reloadableScrollingText so that the text scrolls horizontally when the game name has too many characters for the space. Replacing the tag doesn't show any text - is what I'm after possible without generating thousands of text files?
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Not at the moment, but it sounds like a good feature to add. I'll put it on my list. :)
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Fantastic - cheers dude.
Might be worth adding for all text that comes from the database.
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No worries; if I add it for the database fields I'll add it for all database fields. :)
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No worries; if I add it for the database fields I'll add it for all database fields. :)
Lovely, can't wait. Would finish my theme off nicely :)
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I actually saw some guys mention that some XML lists have story info within them. So I wondered why we would use story files if we could just load the story text straight from the XML as realoadable text.
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I'm planning to support it in the future, but a larger database (stories are generally larger than all the other info combined) will not improve the speed of RetroFE.
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I think ES had the same issue with database bloat before it disappeared. Loading several systems with full lists slowed it down to a crawl. Before they did, they changed to using the XML files and it helped quite a bit but it did slow down little when using gamelist xmls with descriptions implemented into a layout.
The scraper no longer works but I do have a hand full that have a full descriptions if you need help fleshing out the story files.
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Hi all,
Is it possible to use the layout scrolling text facility to display the game name from the database? I see that the wiki only mentions that scrolling text can be used to pull from a text file.
Ideally, I'd like to replace the reloadableText used for the game name tag in a layout to reloadableScrollingText so that the text scrolls horizontally when the game name has too many characters for the space. Replacing the tag doesn't show any text - is what I'm after possible without generating thousands of text files?
Wow, nice suggestion! I certainly would use it on my build ;D
I'm planning to support it in the future, but a larger database (stories are generally larger than all the other info combined) will not improve the speed of RetroFE.
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Is retroFE currently storing all the metadata even if you don´t own the game while navigating? It may make the loading slower, but maybe using only the metadata of the found games could improve the overall speed? :o
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Scraping xml takes more time than loading a database, so RetroFE stores all information in meta.db. I may consider loading on the fly, though MAME remains a huge one to load.
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