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    Announcing Pegasus Frontend

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    • fluffypillowF
      fluffypillow
      last edited by

      So this week's changes:

      • Added Spanish localization (thanks @sikboy)
      • Games that have no video now show the screenshot instead (requested by someone ages ago)
      • Fixed asset searching for games in subdirectories
      • Fixed spamming the log with warnings when Pegasus runs in window and it's X-ed out
      • Updated the error messages that still said ES2-specific things
      • Updated all previous localizations
      • Fixed the name of the Old Hungarian localization in the settings menu
      • Fixed languages sometimes sorted randomly

      I've been also experimenting with improving the support for other platforms, optimizing the Windows build and preparing for Android support.

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      • AndersHPA
        AndersHP @fluffypillow
        last edited by AndersHP

        @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

        So this week's changes:

        • Added Spanish localization (thanks @sikboy)

        @fluffypillow How to contribute? I'd like to do the danish version! Should I just download e.g. the pegasus_es.ts and change the spanish words to danish and somehow upload it or mail it to you?

        And for my monthly question: How far away is the favorites button? :)

        My "Bubble Bobble" Themed Bartop Arcade
        My Gameboy

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        • ClydeC
          Clyde @AndersHP
          last edited by

          @andershp A quick way to (de-)activate the favorites filter would be great, indeed. Is there already a feature request?

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          • DarksaviorD
            Darksavior @fluffypillow
            last edited by Darksavior

            @fluffypillow I was the one that asked for the screenshot, thanks. Not sure, but the screenshot may be slowing pegasus down. It's not as fluid and smooth as before. The screenshot also doesn't look that great at that size. Maybe downsize it a bit/have the option to not have it at all to test speeds.

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            • fluffypillowF
              fluffypillow @AndersHP
              last edited by

              @andershp Yeah, petty much :) There's a translation guide here and and the other translation files here. There are also screenshots here.

              How far away is the favorites button?

              When it's done™®©

              In all seriousness though, storing favorites, stats and such will be likely the next larger part being worked on.

              @Clyde you mean a hotkey for toggling the Favorites checkbox on-off in the filter panel? I think that's quite quick already. I could probably make the panel remember which row it was focused on instead.

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              • fluffypillowF
                fluffypillow @Darksavior
                last edited by

                @darksavior Hm that's interesting, I'll see if this happens to me too. But yeah theme options would be another nice thing to work on.

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                • halfmanhalfcakeH
                  halfmanhalfcake @fluffypillow
                  last edited by

                  @fluffypillow Would you mind if we were to mod the default pegasus theme? Keep the functionality but change the look/colours, into something like, for example the Nintendo Switch UI or XBOX one elements?

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                  • fluffypillowF
                    fluffypillow @halfmanhalfcake
                    last edited by

                    @halfmanhalfcake wouldn't that be a completely different theme then? :)

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                    • halfmanhalfcakeH
                      halfmanhalfcake @fluffypillow
                      last edited by

                      @fluffypillow I guess it would be :)

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                        praetorian55
                        last edited by

                        Excited for the Pegasus Frontend! I was using the instructions to use the repository in Ubuntu and during apt install, it threw the error below. Potentially the underscore in the version string?

                        "dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/pegasus-frontend_6ec6b57% 5fx11-static_amd64.deb (--unpack):
                        parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'pegasus-fronte nd':
                        error in 'Version' field string '6ec6b57_x11-static': invalid character in vers ion number
                        Errors were encountered while processing:
                        /var/cache/apt/archives/pegasus-frontend_6ec6b57%5fx11-static_amd64.deb
                        E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

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                        • fluffypillowF
                          fluffypillow @praetorian55
                          last edited by fluffypillow

                          @praetorian55 Ah, I've forgot to bump the version number yesterday. Should be fixed now, thanks!

                          EDIT: It's still failing, let's see if I can remove the old package somehow...
                          EDIT2: Ok, it's really fixed now.

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                            praetorian55
                            last edited by

                            Definitely fixed! I'm taking it through its paces - looks good so fsr!

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                            • ClydeC
                              Clyde @fluffypillow
                              last edited by

                              @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                              @Clyde you mean a hotkey for toggling the Favorites checkbox on-off in the filter panel? I think that's quite quick already. I could probably make the panel remember which row it was focused on instead.

                              After further testing and some quiet contemplation, I agree that the filter menu is fast enough. :)

                              As for the menu itself, an option to add custom filters via GUI or config file would be nice. Do you know the highly customisable filter function of the front-end Attract Mode? That would my dream, but I guess it requires a lot of programming effort behind the curtain.

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                              • fluffypillowF
                                fluffypillow @Clyde
                                last edited by

                                @clyde this custom filter thing actually sound really nice, it'd extend the current implementation nicely and isn't that hard to add. Will take a look on it.

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                                • ClydeC
                                  Clyde @fluffypillow
                                  last edited by

                                  @fluffypillow That would be great! Here are some examples from AM's author:

                                  https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Example-filters

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                                  • fluffypillowF
                                    fluffypillow
                                    last edited by

                                    So this week I wanted to improve and experiment with the Android, Windows and Mac releases a bit, but due to the horribly long build times and bugs in third party code this ended up taking the whole week. But in the end, I've managed to create a faster, single-exe release for Windows, and set up automatic Android builds too. Will set up releasing them in the next days.

                                    Also I've fixed the the screenshots, they were indeed causing some slowness (@Darksavior).

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                                    • hooperreH
                                      hooperre
                                      last edited by hooperre

                                      @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                                      I've managed to create a faster, single-exe release for Windows

                                      Is theme building pretty seamless between the linux versions and Windows version? If I built my theme on my Windows desktop, are the file pathways about the only thing that would need to be changed moving between the two?

                                      I've been looking for an opening to really sink my teeth in without changing my whole build/re-imaging my SD often if I goof something up.

                                      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                      • fluffypillowF
                                        fluffypillow @hooperre
                                        last edited by

                                        @hooperre Yes, themes should work and look the same on all platform. You can also store them under [directory of Pegasus]/themes/, which is checked on all platforms too.

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                                        • DarksaviorD
                                          Darksavior
                                          last edited by Darksavior

                                          @fluffypillow Builds have been unavailable since I tried to update yesterday via retropie-setup. Maybe @BuZz can add two builds to the pegasus section so we can fall back on: The latest alpha build and the bleeding edge "continuous build".

                                          Error msg:
                                          Available releases: https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend/releases/download/continuous/pegasus-fe_alpha7-13-g082b64d-debug.apk https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend/releases/download/continuous/pegasus-fe_alpha7-13-g082b64d_win-mingw-static.zip Package platform: rpi2 Looks like the latest Pegasus release is not yet available for this platform. This happens when the build is so fresh it's being uploaded right now, or when there's a technical problem on the download server. Either way, this is a temporary problem, so please try again in 1-2 minutes. If the problem persists, consider reporting it on the forum!

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                                          • fluffypillowF
                                            fluffypillow @Darksavior
                                            last edited by

                                            @darksavior Ah, looks like last night's build failed to upload. Should be fixed now, thanks.
                                            Yeah, I should really set up a fallback build (or stable/latest channels eventually). The alpha release might be a bit too far back, I'll see if I can make a "last successful build" kind of thing.

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