Announcing Pegasus Frontend

hooperre

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

@hooperre Thanks! Yeah gamepad support would need some more love, currently you can reset the settings by deleting pegasus_frontend.ini from the config directory (~/.config/pegasus-frontend/).

Hidden files in ES appear in Pegasus

Hm, is there a flag in ES2 that hides games? I can't seem to find it documented in the official repo.

Well, the gamepad support is an awesome feature, honestly. My 2 cents: a simple "Start button binds configs. Green means selected. Blue means actively binding," or however you wanted to word it over the hold B to exit would have answered my questions regarding it. That being said, it was pretty simple to figure out intuitively.

I'm not sure if it's an official thing. It was a feature added when people started discussing the Kids version? Either way, there is a <hidden> tag in my XML file. I use it to hide works in progress in final builds for my brother and cousin. For example, I was working on Intellivision and now that the lr-freeintv core has been added, I've changed <hidden> from true to false on Intellivision games. It's a neat feature. My Windows 95 in dosbox experiment for example is still true haha. So they don't see it in their builds, but I don't necessarily need to delete them either.

Anyways, great job!

Darksavior

@fluffypillow I got the new pi3 b+ and using the retropie stretch image, and I noticed that if I exit the reicast emulator, my pi crashes to the commandline with the error EGL Error : Could not create the egl surface: error = 0x300b. I can't use my keyboard but the cursor is blinking which I think that part is just a bug with the kb not working like in runcommand? Reicast exits normally in ES. I haven't tried testing on my old pi3 or the jessie image.

fluffypillow

@hooperre I've checked the code of ES, so the <hidden> tag can be set in gamelist.xml for individual games (but not for systems), right?

@Darksavior couldn't try this on a Pi 3 yet, sorry. If you have one lying around, with a working setup, perhaps you could try reproducing the error there? The error itself means something like Pegasus couldn't recreate its graphical window - whether that's because the new hardware or due to Reicast, I can't tell.

tjost

it looks very nice. very good work.

slide issue here. by fast scrolling through the games or collections it crashes.
and not all my pictures where shown.
a better turorial on how to set up on your homepage would be Nice.
Also no mention of the "esc" key in the input page on your homepage.

but please keep up the good work.

And where to find the Netflix theme?

hooperre

@fluffypillow Correct, and if <hidden> is set to true for all roms in the gamelist.xml it doesn't show the system in Kiosk mode of the ES fork RetroPie uses.

As an example why this is helpful: I clone my SD for my brother and my cousin and can have WIPs like Intellivision. Had a gamelist already set up, images generated, everything ready on the SD. Once lr-freeintv became available and I tested it, boom, it was included that day.

Hope it wouldn't be too much work for what amounts to a minor cosmetic feature. Makes my life easier though!

fluffypillow

@tjost thanks! Yes, it's still work in progress so there isn't a proper setup guide yet (it'd get outdated way too often in this stage of the development). The Esc key does seem to be mentioned here, unless you see something different? (may happen)

The Flixnet theme can be downloaded here (click [Clone or download] -> Download as ZIP), then extract it into one of the theme directories. There might be some kind of theme browser in the future to make this easier.

As for the issues, on which platform/device do you have these problems?

@hooperre ok, will see if I can add this by the next update!

tjost

@fluffypillow I run retropie lastest Version on Raspberry Pi 3

Darksavior

@fluffypillow I tried the same microsd on my pi2 and it also happens. Then I tried a fresh retropie stretch image without updates and it doesn't crash on my pi3b+. So now I have to update and try and recreate the bug. Fun stuff.

halfmanhalfcake

@fluffypillow Need your help here on the new collections textfiles:

If I am adding a .exe windows game, how would I set up the path to it?
Say my game is in D:/Games/Firewatch/Firewatch.exe

I've tried a few different types but Pegasus can't find any games

fluffypillow

@Darksavior interesting, thanks for testing!

@halfmanhalfcake in this case I'd create a D:/Games/collections.txt looking like this:

collection: Windows games
file: Firewatch/Firewatch.exe
launch: {file.path}

and add D:/Games to [config directory]/game_dirs.txt. File paths like above are relative to the collection file; I'll add a note about this in the documentation.

halfmanhalfcake

@fluffypillow Thanks, but no luck.

Here's what I have as a test:

game_dirs.txt in my '[config]/pegasus-frontend' - (which was found in the 'lastrun.log' as I checked).

"Found C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/pegasus-frontend/game_dirs.txt"
ES2: system config file not found
Steam: no installation found
Data files loaded in 3ms
0 games found

Which inside 'game_dirs.txt' contains:

"D:/Games"

I have collections.txt and metadata.txt in D:/Games.

In collections.txt:

collection: Indie Games
file: Firewatch/Firewatch.exe
launch: {file.path}

and still says no games found :(

fluffypillow

@halfmanhalfcake hm you should also get a Found D:/Games/collections.txt on the log... perhaps something goes wrong with the Windows path handling, I'll see if I can reproduce this the weekend.

Darksavior

@fluffypillow I'm now stumped, heh. Updated clean retropie stretch image = ok. Same clean image but copied my /configs/ folder over = crash to commandline with no working kb and EGL error. Oh well, I don't use reicast often.

fluffypillow

@darksavior hm, is there anything graphics/OpenGL related in the configs maybe?

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Yea, it must've been. I started from scratch again, and this time I only transferred the scraped art and gamelist xml's. All's good. I did have that minor inconvenience of the kb not working while doing this. Hope there's some progress in catching the bug with that.

Also, @administrators @Global-Moderators @buzz or whoever can help, I haven't been getting any notices at all for almost a week. I don't get notified on replies and watched threads.

mitu

@darksavior Try to check you settings and make sure you disable/enable the relevant notification settings.

fluffypillow

Been a while since we last had a proper changelog; here's what happened this week:

Added page up/down support to the default theme (keys are PageUp/PageDown and L2/R2 (>> @AndersHP)
Fixed some games appearing multiple times
Improved shutdown/reboot implementation (somewhat more important on Windows and Mac)
Added program icon and Windows .exe icon
Fixed a bug where some assets were missing from symlinked dirs
Fixed some formatting errors in the log output
Slightly reduced the memory usage
Slightly faster startup time
Builds for all platforms are now also available here

halfmanhalfcake

@fluffypillow Any luck re-producing this?

fluffypillow

@halfmanhalfcake hm it seems to be working fine for me, on a Windows 7 test setup. I've created a new E: partition, a Games folder on it, and a fake E:/Games/test/hello.txt file. Then added E:/Games to the game_dirs.txt, and created E:/Games/collections.txt with the following content:

collection: My Games
file: test/hello.txt
launch: notepad {file.path}

Then, Pegasus detects the game_dirs entry, the collections file and the text file, and opens it in notepad on select. So with the Windows paths working, I'd guess the issues might be caused by something else. Probably you've already checked, but make sure that the file names are correct (D:/Games/collections.txt, not Collections or collection, and not .txt.txt -- some editors save it like that). Also there's no need for quote marks in game_dirs.txt(not sure if that's part of the file or just forum formatting). The direction of the slashes (\, /) shouldn't matter either.

fluffypillow

@hooperre the hidden tag ended up somewhat more complex than I've imagined from such a small feature. In Pegasus' config files the games to ignore are defined in the collection file, and so they aren't included in the first place. But if it's in the metadata file, like with gamelist.xml, then the list of games will have to be modified again after the reading. While that isn't hard to do, I'd prefer to do it only on the collections' level for now. As a workaround, you could use the Pegasus-style collections file: use ignore-file to exclude individual files, or comment out a whole collection block to hide a system.