[Scummvm-cvs-logs] CVS: scummvm/backends/dc selector.cpp,1.4,1.5

[Max Horn]

At 2:16 Uhr +0100 13.02.2003, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
>Jonathan Gray <khalek at linuxgamers.net> writes:
>
>>  For the other games notice it looks in the detectGame part of
>>  version_settings to find files like 00.lfl 000.lfl gsptr30 etc
>>  basically every game that isn't .la0 .he0 or .000 has an detectGame entry
>>  in version_settings.
>>
>>  Indy3 doesn't have a .00 file Endy probably meant 00.lfl
>
>I assume you mean "detectname".  But several games have the same
>detectname.  For example, Indy3, Zak256 and Loom all have "00.LFL" as
>detectname.  So if I have Zak256 on a CD, the code would see 00.LFL
>and list all three games as being there, which is not true.  My code
>uses the directory name for 00.LFL games, so if the directory name is
>"ZAK256", the game will only show up as Zak256.  (If the directory
>name is something other, like "FOO", it will show up as an unknown
>game, but at least it will only show up as _one_ game.)

Did you ever try the GUI on a non-DC ? :-) We do not show this up as 
multiple games, we rather ask the user, offering him a choice of all 
possible candidates if non unambigious decision is possible. The 
user, after all, should now which game he just selected.


Max