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    Announcing Pegasus Frontend

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    • halfmanhalfcakeH
      halfmanhalfcake @fluffypillow
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      @fluffypillow Look forward to it.

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      • fluffypillowF
        fluffypillow
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        This weeks progress:

        • Added jump-to-letter feature
          • currently can be used by pressing Alt + [letter key]
          • on the long term though something like in ES2 would be better
        • Added custom filters support (experimental)
          • similarly to AttractMode
          • the file is <configdir>/filters.txt, the format is the same key: value pair text file like with the metadata files
          • use filter to define a new filter (eg. filter: My Awesome Filter Name)
          • use rule to set which games should be included
            • rules look like rule: game-property comparison comparison-parameter or rule: game-property comparison (for example, rule: title contains Mario or rule: favorite is_true)
            • the possible game properties you can check are listed here
            • the possible comparisons are contains, not_contains, equals, not_equals, is_true/is_false (mainly for checking the favoriteness), is_empty/not_empty (for checking whether a property has value)
          • if the file does not exist, the default filters (Favorite and Multiplayer) will be used; they are, for example, can be described like this:
        filter: Favorite
        rule: favorite is_true
        
        filter: Multiplayer
        rule: players not_equals 1
        
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        • halfmanhalfcakeH
          halfmanhalfcake @fluffypillow
          last edited by halfmanhalfcake

          @fluffypillow On the controllers, can we not use the back trigger (R2 or LT for example) to jump letters? I think that's how Steam BPM does it.

          Otherwise, good work again.

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          • fluffypillowF
            fluffypillow @halfmanhalfcake
            last edited by fluffypillow

            @halfmanhalfcake Oh, didn't know Steam had such feature. Will check it out, thanks.

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            • fluffypillowF
              fluffypillow
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              This week there have been a large amount of internal changes. It shouldn't have any visible effects, but in some cases, you might perhaps see a slight performance improvement.

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              • fluffypillowF
                fluffypillow
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                Weekly changelog!

                • Fixed game launching (which I accidentally broke last week)
                • Fixed Raspberry build sometimes not uploading correctly
                • A number of mouse, touchscreen and Android related improvements
                  • The main menu and the default theme is now fully usable with only mouse or touch too
                  • Game launching confirmed working on Android - expect the documentation this afternoon
                  • Video playback now works on Android
                  • Config files on Android are now stored under <storage>/pegasus-frontend, where storage is the internal storage if you have one, otherwise the SD card. (Previously configs were stored in some internal system dir)
                  • The package version is now displayed correctly in the Android settings menu
                • Minor fixes

                I've also made a video:

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                • lilbudL
                  lilbud @fluffypillow
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                  @fluffypillow Probably the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                  • fluffypillowF
                    fluffypillow
                    last edited by

                    Update: The Android docs are now online here.

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                    • AndersHPA
                      AndersHP
                      last edited by AndersHP

                      Just updated to latest version, after a long break away from my arcade build - but now Pegasus won't launch. The splash screen is replaced with the text about locales, games found and after the last line stating how many games are found, nothing else happens... Does not respond to inputs either.

                      Does the newest version require something like a special version of RetroPie installed or..?

                      Edit: a few hints maybe; it states;
                      QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
                      qrc:/frontend/main.qml:101 Type MenuOverlay unavailable
                      qrc:/frontend/menuoverlay.qml:122 Type SettingsScreen unavailable
                      qrc:/frontend/menu/SettingsScreen.qml:85 Type MultivalueOption unavailable
                      qrc:/frontend/menu/settings/MultivalueOption.qml:78 Cannot assign to non-existent property "cursorShape"

                      My "Bubble Bobble" Themed Bartop Arcade
                      My Gameboy

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                      • fluffypillowF
                        fluffypillow @AndersHP
                        last edited by

                        @andershp Thanks, that's a bug, I'll fix it right away.

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                        • fluffypillowF
                          fluffypillow @AndersHP
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                          @andershp Ok, should be fixed now!

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                          • AndersHPA
                            AndersHP @fluffypillow
                            last edited by

                            @fluffypillow Sure is! Thanks!

                            My "Bubble Bobble" Themed Bartop Arcade
                            My Gameboy

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                            • fluffypillowF
                              fluffypillow
                              last edited by

                              I started writing a small frontend chooser app:

                              screenshot

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                                Seya16
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                                Hi :) @fluffypillow

                                I recently tried to test your app on android, but I was unable to make the roms shows up :/, tried everything but with no success.
                                I did make the config file and test various path but nothing, test the internal on external drive. I'm pretty that I followed carefully the config guide.

                                Keep up the good work, and thanks in advance if you have any suggestion.

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                                • hooperreH
                                  hooperre @fluffypillow
                                  last edited by

                                  @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                                  I started writing a small frontend chooser app:

                                  Oh meohmy. :) This looks wonderful.

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

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                                  • fluffypillowF
                                    fluffypillow @Seya16
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                                    @seya16 Hm, do you see anything interesting in the log file (<pegasus-dir>/lastrun.log)? If possible, try to open it directly on the device with some text editor app (files tend to be out of sync when I open them on desktop, at least for me).

                                    Yeah, I should really start working on some file picker instead of the manual editing...

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                                      Seya16 @fluffypillow
                                      last edited by Seya16

                                      @fluffypillow It show this :
                                      Found locale 'American English' (en)
                                      Found locale 'español de España' (es)
                                      Found locale 'français' (fr)
                                      Found locale 'magyar' (hu)
                                      Found locale 'magyar (rovás)' (hu-Hung)
                                      Locale set to 'American English' (en)
                                      Found theme 'Pegasus Grid [built-in]' (:/themes/pegasus-grid/)
                                      Theme set to 'Pegasus Grid [built-in]' (:/themes/pegasus-grid/)
                                      Found /storage/emulated/0/pegasus-frontend/game_dirs.txt
                                      ES2: system config file not found
                                      Data files loaded in 13ms
                                      0 games found
                                      Closing Pegasus, goodbye!

                                      But yeah I think that a file picker will be really useful :)

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                                      • fluffypillowF
                                        fluffypillow @Seya16
                                        last edited by fluffypillow

                                        @seya16 it seems like /storage/emulated/0/pegasus-frontend/game_dirs.txt was found, but the directories listed in it were not, or don't contain collection files (collections.txt or collections.pegasus.txt). Do the paths and files exist?

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                                          Seya16 @fluffypillow
                                          last edited by Seya16

                                          @fluffypillow yes
                                          And just so you know I did test it on two different android devices (the GPD XD with android 4.4 and Huwei P9 lite with android Nougat) and the result is the same....

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                                          • fluffypillowF
                                            fluffypillow @Seya16
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                                            @seya16 Hmm, I'll add some more verbose logging then, to see what could be the error. Also thanks for testing on multiple devices!

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