[Scummvm-devel] Game enhancements

[Pierre-Yves Gérardy]

A brief wizard after game detection could help to expose these otherwise non
obvious options.

It could present a single panel with the improvements specific to a given
game.

I'd enable it by default, give an option to remove it for expert users, and
disable it for mass adding games.

Regards,
-- Pierre-Yves


On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 06:09, Paul Gilbert <paulfgilbert at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:07 AM, yotam barnoy <yotambarnoy at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> >
>> > About the MetaEngine class: If we have a plugin build querying
>> > MetaEngine for options every time an user opens a options dialog doesn't
>> > seem what we would like to do, so I guess if we want to use that we also
>> > need to think of some kind of proper caching logic, especially for small
>> > devices. Of course that is rather implementation specific now, but it
>> > might be still something to consider when evaluating how to do that.
>> >
>>
>> I agree. Assuming the one-plugin-at-a-time mode which we are working
>> towards, so long as we can tolerate a delay while the plugin is loaded
>> into memory as the tab/options dialog is opened, it's ok. The problem
>> is that EVERY time the user returns to the tab/opens the options
>> dialog, the delay will be there as we have to unload the plugin right
>> away to prevent memory fragmentation. Therefore, we may really want a
>> caching mechanism, as you suggest.
>>
>> Yotam
>>
>
> I'm not familiar with the plugin system myself, but how long does it take
> to load and/or unload a single engine plugin? My understanding from the past
> is that the plugin system is slow only if you try to iterate through all the
> plugins for such things as detecting which game a folder contains. So surely
> the extra time to load a plugin into memory when you open the options dialog
> wouldn't be noticable, would it? Also, it's not as if users will keep
> opening and closing the options dialog, so even if it's a little slower, I
> don't see that it would be a major issue.
>
> Paul.
>
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