Announcing Pegasus Frontend

fluffypillow

I've just merged this week's progress, there's what changed:

Added favorite support
- you can set them on the game info panel (see below)
- technically, they are stored in a config file (~/.config/pegasus-frontend/favorites.txt); the intention with the standalone file is to separate the static game data (gamelists) from the user preferences
- ES2 files are not changed, so if a game is marked as favorite there, it'll also keep staying favorite in Pegasus too. ES2 support will be disableable in the future.
- The setting is saved in the background when you press the button
- Theme API changes: the game.favorite field is now writable
- Translators: the button labels are not translateable yet, but will be in the future (there'll likely be a set of common strings, like "Developer" and such)
Changed the game info panel (https://webmshare.com/NRomm)
- it can be opened with Ctrl/Square/XBox-X/Nintendo-Y
- the filter menu can now be opened with Shift/Triangle/Y/X
Fixed formatting not working in error messages

DeadStretch

@fluffypillow On a Pi 3b. The resolution switch happens from a run command on start/on end script.

tvservice -c "NTSC 4:3 P" ; fbset -depth 8 ; fbset -depth 32; tvservice -s
and
tvservice -c "NTSC 4:3" ; fbset -depth 8 ; fbset -depth 32; tvservice -s

I followed this guide to set it all up.

I will look into the rest. Thanks.

fluffypillow

No updates last week due to all kinds of unrelated issues, hopefully this one will be more productive. Maybe I could finally add that letter jump feature.

halfmanhalfcake

@fluffypillow Look forward to it.

fluffypillow

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

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.

fluffypillow

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

fluffypillow

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.

fluffypillow

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:

lilbud

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

fluffypillow

Update: The Android docs are now online here.

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"

fluffypillow

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

fluffypillow

@andershp Ok, should be fixed now!

AndersHP

@fluffypillow Sure is! Thanks!

fluffypillow

I started writing a small frontend chooser app:

screenshot

Seya16

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.

hooperre

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

I started writing a small frontend chooser app:

Oh meohmy. :) This looks wonderful.

fluffypillow

@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...

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 :)