[Scummvm-devel] ATTN Porters: SaveFileManager API Adjustments

[Johannes Schickel]

On 03/22/2016 10:31 PM, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hm 409ms for a listSavefiles sounds quite a lot already. How feasible
>> would be to silently auto convert all previous saved games to all
>> lowercase and simply write new ones as all lowercase?
> It's an interresting proposal, but I forsee two problems:
>
> #1:  How to find the files that need to be converted if they don't
>       happen to be matched by a call to listSavegames?  You mentioned
>       engines which take savegame filenames from game data (this is
>       the only case where I think this might actually be useful on
>       the Dreamcast), but in that case I assume they just use these
>       names speculatively without searching for the files first?

Yeah, it's not guaranteed.

> #2:  Unfortunatly there is no rename functionality in the library, so
>       converting would amount to deleting the old file and creating a
>       new one with the desired filename.  While this only needs to be
>       done once, it will take some time and the user might get confused
>       why ScummVM starts saving (as indicated by beeping) to the memory
>       card when brining up the load game dialog...
>

Is there source available for the library? Or is this some blob? I am 
wondering how feasible it would be to adapt the library (in that case 
one could already implement case-insensitive access there for ScummVM 
maybe?).

// Johannes