[ scummvm-Feature Requests-1393757 ] TOOLS: Add a GUI to the various recompress tools

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Feature Requests item #1393757, was opened at 2005-12-30 18:20
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Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Max Horn (fingolfin)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: TOOLS: Add a GUI to the various recompress tools

Initial Comment:
I guess for many of our not-so-experienced users, it would be nice to 
have a single programm which integrates the various compression 
tools with a GUI atop...

At least for X11, Windows, Mac OS X. That should cover 98% of our 
users; handheld users most likely use one of theses systems as host 
system, after all).

To this end, one could either use a cross platform toolkit (e.g. 
wxWindows), or make dedicated tools for each platform.

Additionally, those tools could also include encoders for OGG/LAME/
FLAC, to avoid any additional dependencies.


A typical use case then would be:
1) Start ScummVMCompressor GUI tool
2) A big window with a "Drop file here" drop field and a "Select" button 
shows up
3) User either drops file(s) into the drop field, or presses the "Select" 
button to get a file selector from which files are choosen
4) Program automatically determines which file it sees, and selects the 
correct encoder
5) A "Conversion" dialog is shown. It shows the old file, the new file 
(name) (maybe with the option to choose another output destination), 
and a "compression level" slider, as well as a widget where one can 
choose the compression format (OGG, MP3, FLAC).
There's a button (or so) for "Expert settings" where one can fine tune 
all the optional params.

6) The user presses the "Convert" button (maybe after changing some 
of the default settings)

7) A progress dialog is shown, the file is converted

8) A success/failure message is shown to the user. Possibly telling 
them "You can now delete the old XYZ file."

9) Done.


None of these is very hard. Several people already made simply 
ScummVM launchers/frontends for various systems. Maybe we can get 
some of these folks to make encoder front ends, too? Maybe there are 
already some out there... ?

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