Hi Roman,

I know you've already got your finger on the 'auto request deny' reply, but hear me out! ;)

Now that we can scan fixdats, it would be awesome if the Scanner would take notice of the 'rebuildto' tag for each set(recently discovered by myself from a recent post of yours).

At the moment, I have a program that combines fixdats and utilises this tag, and it rebuilds very nicely. It would be handy if this feature could be added, for the same reasons as you recently changed the fixdat behaviour for.

Cheers,

SK.

How should the scanner take care of that?
Instead of looking at a rompath it should look at the "rebuildto" set one?


Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

> How should the scanner take care of that?
> Instead of looking at a rompath it should look at the "rebuildto" set one?
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
> ClrMamePro
>
I would think that it should look in the path relative to the rom path(s) set. For example, set a rom path for the fixdat (which is needed for scanning, anyway), "Set 1" is marked to rebuildto "subdir". I set the rompath to "C:\LookHere". So, the scanner would expect to see "C:\LookHere\subdir\Set 1.zip"

If it's too hard to implement into the current scanner, that's fine, I just thought appending the 'rebuildto' tag to the set name for scanning would be relativly easy. No problems at all if you chuck it in the 'too hard' basket ;)

SK.

> > How should the scanner take care of that?
> > Instead of looking at a rompath it should look at the "rebuildto" set one?
> >
> >
> > Roman Scherzer
> > ClrMamePro
> >
> I would think that it should look in the path relative to the rom path(s) set.
> For example, set a rom path for the fixdat (which is needed for scanning,
> anyway), "Set 1" is marked to rebuildto "subdir". I set the rompath to
> "C:\LookHere". So, the scanner would expect to see "C:\LookHere\subdir\Set
> 1.zip"
>
> If it's too hard to implement into the current scanner, that's fine, I just
> thought appending the 'rebuildto' tag to the set name for scanning would be
> relativly easy. No problems at all if you chuck it in the 'too hard' basket ;)
>
> SK.
>
Just a little background on this, as to why I might be asking. I have writting a little util to combine fixdats. After playing with various combinations of settings, etc, the 'rebuildto' tag came up as the best option.

Basically, all that happens is the util opens all fixdatfiles in a given path, then 'copies' each set into a new 'Combined Dats' file. For each set, the 'rebuildto' tag is set to the datfile's name that the set came from.

e.g. :

game (
name "7 of 9 The Slots [Original]"
rebuildto "Visual Pinball Original Tables Others"
description "7 of 9 The Slots [Original]"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "7 of 9 The Slots screenshot.jpg" size 53085 crc 0xaf252556 )
)

game (
name "Candy Land [Original]"
rebuildto "Visual Pinball Original Tables"
description "Candy Land [Original]"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "Candy Land screenshot.jpg" size 69510 crc 0x0aa8dc8b )
)

So, to rebuild this, I simply point CMP to my Pinball Tables collection, and it builds each set accordingly to a directory based on the name of each fixdatfile. To scan this currently to see if it's all filled, I then have to take each individual fixdat (used to have to remove the 'category' line.... ;) ), then scan each new directory.

SK.

Well...I put it on my todo list...time will tell when I add it to the scanner...currently I have some free time for emustuff once a week or so and then I usually look over clrmame requests and reports...

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

> Well...I put it on my todo list...time will tell when I add it to the
> scanner...currently I have some free time for emustuff once a week or so and
> then I usually look over clrmame requests and reports...
>
> Roman Scherzer
> ClrMamePro
>
Thanks Roman for hearing me out on this 'wish-list' item :)

SK.