Announcing Pegasus Frontend

fluffypillow

Progress of week 11 (I think?):

The gamepad config screen is now functional: https://webmshare.com/QPnKL It's not 100% complete, but it works, so I think I'll check some other features now. The gamepad image is a bit meh, I'll redraw it later.
Qt 5.9 is now out, it has performance and memory consumption improvements. I'm experimenting with its build system, trying to find the best build parameters I'd use for a release.

fluffypillow

@shantigilbert the config seems fine (though I think you'll need GStreamer 1.0 if you want video support), and the EGL plugin has all the dependencies too. Now that it's available, running Pegasus like this: pegasus-fe -platform eglfs should work. Alternatively, seting the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs env var should work too.

lilbud

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

gamepad image is a bit meh

What happened to the gamepad image that @Rookervik drew?

fluffypillow

I still have it, but I'd like to avoid looking too close to one specific device (though, per-device images would be possible too).

sselph

@fluffypillow Hi, I haven't been paying much attention to the forums but someone mentioned your project and it looks nice. I wanted to let you know that it you want to add the ability to scrape from within your app, let me know. I can and have played around with compiling my scraper as a C shared library.

At one point I had it working in ES but never followed up and got it pushed out. It was also not great since it was hacking around ES's UI, since I didn't know enough to change it.

I know you probably have higher priority issues to solve but when you get to something like that feel free to reach out to me on github.

fluffypillow

@sselph Thanks! At the moment Pegasus is still in alpha, so scraper/external program integration is still in the planning stage.

Ideally, I'd expect a scraper plugin to work and communicate with the frontend asynchronously, using a well defined API for reporting the current state and progress, or to allow cancelling the scraping. This would allow me to create a nice progress bar / scraping progress interface, or send the scraping it to the background while the user can continue playing, etc.

This would probably require significant changes in most scrapers, so I'd also add a regular "start this program and wait for it to end" kind of launching too.

shantigilbert

@fluffypillow THANK YOU! after a week of strugglin it FINALLY WORKS!!! it does not have video yet, but thats because I need gstreamer, but at least I can see the FE :D

there is one small problem, not sure if its related to gstreamer, or if I should update my gamelist.xml. but no images show, I can see all the logos for the systems and names and information of all the games, but no images :( (btw the svg for famicom is missing)

But I really love how fast it loaded!

Edit: I should REALLY start reading all of the posts in this thread before asking questions xD

lilbud

Does the alpha actually launch games?

shantigilbert

@lilbud it does for me, I am using the gamelist.xml from ES and other than what I said about the images, it works perfectly fine.

edit: but it crashes after a bit.

Executing command: /usr/bin/retroarch -L /tmp/cores/fbalpha_libretro.so /storage/roms/neogeo/aof.zip
Process 3145 started
QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/bin/retroarch") is still running.
The external program /usr/bin/retroarch has crashed
The external program has crashed on exit, with exit code 9

sselph

@fluffypillow I like the idea of asynchronous operation and would be pretty easy to implement from my side, but synchronous may be helpful for manual scraping. When I get some time, I may write up what that API could potentially be.

fluffypillow

I've collected the weekly status reports and some info links in the first post.

shantigilbert

@fluffypillow I've compiled the latest version, but I can't seem to get the settings panel to open, I've tried every button on my gamepad and on my keyboard but no luck, how to I open it ??

fluffypillow

https://i.imgflip.com/1qkwhw.jpg

There's no settings menu yet, it's just a button :)

shantigilbert

@fluffypillow lol :P

CodeDrawer

When will this come out?

lilbud

@CodeDrawer To quote Robin Williams

Could be tomorrow, could be 10,000 years from now

CodeDrawer

@lilbud I like that quote.

A Former User

So do I.

CodeDrawer

@itsnitro so is this a theme, or a whole new front end?

lilbud

@CodeDrawer Completely new frontend that will finally nail the coffin on EmulationStation