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That being said, VistaDB is WAAAAAYYYYY better than SQLite... There's no comparison. Broken skateboard and space shuttle.-Renegade (May 09, 2011, 07:33 AM)
@wraith808: That all makes perfectly good sense.so again, why is it special?A few more thoughts:-wraith808 (May 07, 2011, 08:47 PM)
- They (MS) explicitly don't want you to do this
- You could exchange the int? by Int32 and get a pointer to that
-Ath (May 08, 2011, 05:30 AM)
I don't think I articulated that well enough and I think I even confused it more above.
Here's the problem again...
The networking code needs to be spun off in a thread or background worker, yes, but the time it takes can be very very low, and low enough that a notification window won't fully display before it needs to be ripped down again.
So I need some mechanism that will quickly alert users that an operation is taking place. It should offer the chance to cancel as well.-Renegade (May 07, 2011, 09:29 PM)
I've done no research on the subject, though I've done some stuff, including nullable types, in C#. But not in this direction. Nevertheless...
I kind of assume you read this msdn subject explaining nullable types?
It states:T can be any value type including struct; it cannot be a reference type
This makes me suspect the actual implementation is something handled at compile-time, so pointers for getting at it won't exist during runtime?-Ath (May 07, 2011, 08:59 AM)
It seems to me that using the right language, with the right programmer, and making careful decisions in your architecture, etc., can yield results that balance productivity with performance.-Renegade (May 06, 2011, 10:38 PM)
Looking at SQLite, have you investigated the SQLite endorsed ADO.Net provider?
I especially like the headline message on the site:This is a fork of the popular ADO.NET 2.0 adaptor for SQLite known as System.Data.SQLite. The originator of System.Data.SQLite, Robert Simpson, is aware of this fork, has expressed his approval, and has commit privileges on the new Fossil repository. The SQLite development team intends to maintain System.Data.SQLite moving forward.(Emphasis added)-Ath (May 07, 2011, 07:56 AM)
Games explorer notices eight of themProblem here is that games have to register with Games Explorer, during install usually, to be noticed by GE, so it's not directly GE's 'fault', IMHO-kamahl (May 07, 2011, 06:53 AM)-Ath (May 07, 2011, 07:23 AM)
Nobody ever frees sc nor sc2. Should I have used using() on this so Dispose() gets called automatically? Maybe. Or maybe not. This pattern works just fine for temporary 'local' types like arrays and the sort.
Woop de wooping wah wah, the GC helps me out by taking the worry of free()ing things away. But now nobody knows WHEN it happens exactly. And there is the pain of garbage collectors running and slowing down your app as a result unless they are very well optimized. Most of the time, it makes no difference.-worstje (May 06, 2011, 08:03 AM)
p.s. was this there yesterday? Pinboard is charging $9.33 for new accounts?-dantheman (May 06, 2011, 07:18 AM)
Sorry, I guess I'm so familiar with apps like this that I forget not everyone else is
It should be stand-alone, self-contained and portable. ZIP distribution, relative paths, and all the rest.
It should be based around some sort of database where all information is stored - something that can be backed up, and maybe even manually edited if mass changes need to be made.
The GUI should be tripartite, taking the form of FOLDER TREE - DETAILS LIST - SCREENSHOTS. Tree doesn't really need custom icons like QuickPlay has, but it should offer folders for each of the default columns in the details view (name, date, publisher, distributer, genre, rating, playcount, etc), along with the ability to create custom folders based on user-defined queries.
The details list should offer an icon column (preferrably 32x32 rather than just 16x16), followed by all preset and any custom data fields present. Columns should be moveable and sortable. In-line editing of data would be nice.
A "new game" dialog should let users easly add a new executable, and to designate any command line switches and/or helper apps to launch with the game. By default it will choose the EXE's icon, but users should be able to choose an alternative icon if desired. Ideally most data would be scraped from MobyGames - I'm sure their API is published someplace. DOSBox Game Launcher even pulls screenshots from there, it's very handy!
The screenshot window simply displays all images in the directory associated with the selected game.
This is pretty much the minimum - though the MobyGames scraping is just an added perk. Later could come things like local links to files such as manuals, walkthroughs and maps, mounting of CD images for launching game backups, GUI customizations, and more.
I'm probably asking for a lot - oh how I wish I knew how to write this app myself!-garbanzo (May 05, 2011, 09:40 PM)
Well, I just use Steam as my game launcher. Even for non-Steam games. But that probably won't be useful for games that require DOSBox.-Deozaan (May 05, 2011, 09:48 PM)
I use XFire for my game launcher, although I'm currently also playing the Raptr, which is quite similar.-kamahl (May 05, 2011, 10:21 PM)
Human does not refer to humanity these days, right?-Tuxman (May 05, 2011, 10:07 AM)
"No, there's no moral justification for the celebration. But no enlightened reason for the fear we felt, either. If the fear was comprehensible, so is the joy. We're only human."
Yeh, "congratz" for murdering an unarmed old man after ten years of pointless bombing. Idiots.
BTW, has anyone here mentioned yet that al-Quaeda was an US-American guerilla troop initially?-Tuxman (May 04, 2011, 01:25 PM)
