前端工具Emu Loader v8.5发布

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前端工具Emu Loader发布新版，更新如下：

         version 8.5.7 change log - May 07, 2018         Fixed            Severe memory leaks after closing the clean install dialog (1 thousand memory blocks), caused by two TStringList vars
All selected Neo-Geo MSV games are listed in "Run Game Confirmation Dialog" if you select a Neo-Geo machine with less cart slots         Changed            Remade some console/computer system icons so they can be properly used with dark backgrounds         Added            Dark themed message box... lights out!
                - just tick the new "Night Mode" checkbox in the dialog's lower left corner
                - since the RichEdit text colors cannot be changed "on-the-fly", it will only take effect next time the dialog appears "Multi-slot Machine" text added to show the selected "Neo-Geo MVS" machine before listing the games ("Run Game Configirmation Dialog")      
      

               version 8.5.6 change log - May 02, 2018         Fixed            Holy crap-a-monium! Fix losing arcade emulator filename from "\arcade\emulators.ini" at startup, take three
                - the info will be saved in .ini file only if emulator date/time stamp has changed
                - whatever happens, current emulator info entries and system sections are no longer deleted from .ini file (garbage entries mode ON)
                - only at "Arcade Emulator Setup" screen "emulators.ini" will change (add/delete entries and sections) MAMu_ icons folder path saving twice to "mame\ui.ini" after exiting "Preferences" screen MAMu_ icons folder path read from MAME and then read again from HBMAME (only MAME's "ui.ini" is used)         Changed            Reverted back some function calls in main screen's OnShow() event to OnActivate() event like it was in EL v8.4.7 as the newer tweaks were causing weird problems      
      

               version 8.5.5 change log - May 01, 2018         Fixed            Obscure bug: after updating arcade emulator version info at startup, the filename with full path is somehow deleted from "\arcade\emulators.ini";                filename is no longer updated, just file date/time and version info                        Out of focus bug at startup still haunts us, so the new init zip images form is replaced by a simple panel directly in the main screen         Changed            The window "Layout Dimensions" will no longer be restored at startup to avoid the dreadul "out of focus" bug (accessible in images popup menu)      
      

               version 8.5.4 change log - April 30, 2018         Fixed            Image layout splitters not restored correctly at startup for triple/quad layouts Zipped images contents list for MAME software lists not initializing correctly, causing them to not show up in preview images panel            Image layout splitters not restoring to current positions after exiting "Image Category Settings" and "Image Layout Settings" screens            Image category was not properly set to in-game snapshot at startup causing several problems:
                - image panel settings not initialized correctly
                - image hint panel settings not initialized correctly
                - arcade emulator game snapshot folder setting was not being read from emulator config file
                - zipped images was not initialized                        Fixes to clean install mode
                - arcade emulator config file was not read/initialized
                - arcade image folder paths were not being read/initialized
                - tons of memory leaks caused by two vars that were not freed from RAM                     Changed            Interface tweaks in "Arcade Emulators Setup" screen
                - button "Update System" renamed to "Reset System" and its help text changed to reflect what it actually does
                - lowered dialog height and merged all buttons in the bottom bar where they belong
                - aligned "Ok" and "Cancel" buttons to the right side of the dialog
                - "MAME Ash" build label link removed since it's no longer updated, replaced by HomeBrew MAME
                - changed font of "Autorun Game With AlterMAME" to the same as other labels and simplified its help text to be more clear                        "Delete/Rename Preview Image" screen
                - added "Dimensions: 0000x0000" label to show the image's resolution
                - replaced category icon by a 68x68 sized monster and removed category title text
                - interface tweaks                        Optimized uMain.DestroyImageLayoutControls function and removed fixed indexes of panels/splitters count            Deleted "destroy controls" code in "uMain.SetImageLayout" function since it's an exact copy from uMain.DestroyImageLayoutControls function            Replaced "image category selector" and "image layout selector" quick popup menus by improved dialogs in images tool bar buttons
                - popup lists were too big for screen resolutions lower than 1080p
                - 68x68 monster sized icons for easier navigation
                - disabled categories/layouts do not appear in the list
                - select a category/layout with mouse double-click or ENTER key or "Ok" button
                - abort operation with ESC key or "Cancel" button
                - reduced RAM usage and code tweaks for future improvements                        Startup tweaks
                - double-checked function calls to prevent them executing more than once
                - moved some code from uMain.OnActivate() event to uMain.OnShow() event to help mitigate the "out of focus" bug
                - fixed a really weird "out of focus" bug that prevents scrolling games with mouse wheel after games list is loaded
                - remove a few function calls trying to set focus to the main games list without populating it first                        Replaced zipped images initialization messages in splash screen by a darn cute small msgbox below the images tool bar
                - way easier to spot categoy/layout changes
                - centered on main screen window in thumbnails view
                - message texts no longer sent to splash screen
                - action text and visual improvements are now possible                        Image layout splitters now update the image panel while dragging them instead of just show a pattern line (experimental)            Clean install dialog interface changed to a dark theme (old light theme is gone)         Removed            2 TImageList components with 24x24 sized image categories/layouts icons and a TImageList with 68x68 arcade systems icons are no longer necessary                as they are loaded on demand, directly from .ico files                     Added            Quad Image Layouts
                - 18 new image layouts to display 4 game preview images at the same time
                - image panels cannot be hidden due to layouts mount complexity
                - layout 1 have two modes: horizontal and vertical hor: a single horizontal splitter that separates up and down panels vert: a single vertical splitter that separates left and right panels
                - hide layouts you don't want to use
                - "Image Layout Settings" interface updated, 1024x768 / 1280x720 minimum screen resolution required                        New image layout setting "Use Custom Category for Console/Computer" ("Image Layout Settings" screen)
                - define alternate image categories for MAME software games / console / computer systems
                - dual / triple / quad layouts only; no point in doing this for single layout
                - disabled by default, you can enable this setting in "Image Layout Settings" screen only                - categories can be assigned to any panel
                - unzipped and zipped images support
                - image hint box in images preview panel is updated only when hovering the mouse on top of image panels, to maintain games scrolling high speed
                - category background color is ignored to avoid heavy flickering while scrolling games
                - useful to show "software cover" in place of "arcade flyer"                        Support new "Neo-Geo MVS" machines for MAME v0.197
                - you can choose what Neo-Geo MVS machine to use when running multi-slot arcade games
                - new file "arcade\mame_multislot_machines.txt" containing the valid list of machines; it can be manually updated when needed
                - last used machine is restored next time you run multi-slot games
                - when changing the machine to be used, games that exceed slot count are grayed out but can still be moved up/down in the list                  
      

               version 8.5.3 change log - April 04, 2018         Fixed            Supermodel3 emulator settings screen was not centered in the desktop            The "Select" button for "BGFX Shadow Mask" file was not implemented            Calling "set emulator default settings" from "Arcade Emulators Setup" was not passing the correct emulator filename parameter, resulting in bogus "full_path\emu_cfg_filename.ini"                and causing frontend to crash when saving emu default settings         Changed            Enabled "Save to File" button in madExcept settings (bug report crash dialog)            Send bug report will no longer zip the .txt; .png files (madExcept)      
      

               version 8.5.2 change log - April 02, 2018         Fixed            "Image Category Settings" bug fixes (left-overs from old code)
                - "Select" category was disabled and its folder selections was never saved on exit
                - zipped images cache wasn't rebuilt on exit while in multiple images layouts, causing selected game images to not load                        Frontend crash if you try to use "Select" image category            Auditing multiple selected games was not working if any of them use device or bios sets            Wrong system selected in "single system selection" mode (Arcade system selection dialog)         Changed            Preview images panel color/splitter settings moved from "EmuLoader.ini" to "\ini_files\image_category.ini"; no more losing image splitter settings on a fresh install            You can select scan mode and software list build mode when using "Create MAME Software Games List" in main menu "Arcade"         Added            Customize "preview images hint box" appearance (Preferences screen, "Images" tab)
                - the hint box shows up when hovering the mouse on top on images panel
                - box background color, box frame color and visibility, text color, text shadow color and visibility
                - box opacity level (255 is opaque, 0 is transparent)
                - settings saved in "\ini_files\image_category.ini" file to avoid loss on a clean install
                - new setting "Show Unzipped/Zipped Icon" that display an "image icon" for unzipped images and "zip icon" for zipped images
                    (easier to spot if the loaded image is unzipped or zipped when hovering the mouse on top of it)                        Moved "Update Favorites Profiles" from main menu to "Help" sub-menu since its usefulness has passed; but if you're late into the frontend party, it's still available      
      

               version 8.5.1 change log - March 29, 2018         Fixed            OH NO! Software lists were not audited after creating games lists in "update" mode         Removed            Removed a couple "[.zip; .7z]" strings from the splash screen's messages when auditing MAME/HBMAME games since it include CHD files, which are not zipped      
      

               version 8.5 change log - March 28, 2018         Fixed            Bios/device ROMs showing as "Parent Bios" / "Parent Device" in game sets ("Arcade Scan Results" screen)            Message panel not showing up when applying quick systems filter in grouped view mode            MAME software list games not audited correctly if set has no main "gamename.zip" file but have CHD files            Setting "MAMU_ Icons Folder" was not saved in .ini file when closing "Preferences" screen            TEdit was in read-only mode; you can rename files in "Rename Image" dialog again            Background color of single image layout was not restored at startup and not set after closing "Image Category Settings" screen            Create ZiNc games list was setting bios ROMs as "parent ROM" on games sets         Changed            File "\arcade\image_categories.ini" renamed to "\arcade\sysimagefolders_arcade.ini" (done at startup)            Image category background color/visibility settings moved out of "EmuLoader.ini" into a new "\ini_files\image_category.ini" file (done at startup)
                - from now on, file is updated only when you change settings in "Image Category Settings" screen
                - settings are no longer lost on a frontend crash or clean install                        Image layout visibility settings moved out of "EmuLoader.ini" into "\ini_files\screenshot_layouts.ini", where they belong (done at startup)
                - from now on, file is updated only when you change settings in "Image Layout Settings" screen
                - settings are no longer lost on a frontend crash or clean install                        Changes and fixes to "Game Details" screen
                - CHD files of software list games were not correctly detected, "software name" parameter was missing
                - added "extra required set" info for software list games
                - bios set filename not shown in "Game Files" section (left panel)
                - several tweaks                        Tweaks to "Create MAME Games List"            Changes/fixes to "MAME Software List Games"
                - detection of "sharedfeat requirement" tags in .xml files when creating games lists; highly experimental!
                    - some games require an extra set to run properly; Atari 2600 cassette, PC-Engine CD, others (info shown in "Game Details" screen)
                    - if a game doesn't run and you're sure you have all game files, look for this extra info above the "Games Files" section, left panel
                    - requirement data stored in a new "arcade\games\mame.elsoftlistreq" file
                    - the extra parameter is added before the gamename parameter
                - expanded options to create software lists (new "update" mode)
                    - "Disable": do not create software lists and delete current games list files
                    - "Enable: Update": create new lists and update existing ones only if CRC32 checksum of "mamedir\hash\softwarename.xml" file has changed (XML file updated)
                    - "Enable: Overwrite": create new lists and overwrite existing ones even if CRC32 checksum match
                    NOTE: settings can be found in the screen to select systems when creating MAME games list and in "Scan Games Mode" screen
                - new "xmlfile_crc32" entry in "frontenddir\arcade\mame_softwarelist_games\softname.el" to compare with MAME "softname.xml" (for "update" mode only)                        Interface changes to Select Arcade System" dialog
                - added new software list modes
                - systems list moved to a left panel
                - option "For This Task Only" is unchecked by default
                - info texts improved                        Changes to "Arcade Miscellaneous Filters" (main tool bar buttons)
                - renamed "Device" drop-down list to "Device ROMs" since this filter is not exclusive to device sets
                - renamed "BIOS" drop-down list do "BIOS ROMs" since this filter is not exclusive to bios sets
                - renamed texts from "Sets" to "ROMs" in "Device ROMs" and "Bios ROMs" drop-down filters since they are related to particular ROMs, not the entire set
                - renamed "Filter by Main CPU Filter" to "Enable Main CPU Filter Bar"
                - renamed "Games with ROMs (any set)" to "Games With ROMs (any ROM)" in "Game ROMs" drop-down list since this filter includes device/bios ROMs
                - renamed "Games with no ROMs" to "Games With no ROMs/CHDs" in "Game ROMs" drop-down list to reflect what the filter actually does
                - new category filter "Music" for sets like "VGM Player" (vgmplay)
                - minor interface tweaks                        Renamed several "function" code blocks to "procedure" since they don't need to return a result            Minor interface tweaks to Preferences screen, and removal of texts with "7 pixel" font size            If screen resolution is smaller than the dialog, scroll bars will be added to the TForm so you can see everything (experimental!)
                - for screen resolutions smaller than 1280x1024 and because some dialogs just can't be scaled down
                - supported dialogs: "MAME Settings", "Game Details"
                NOTE: minimum screen resolution for Emu Loader is 1024x768 / 1280x720 but some dialogs still fit on 640x480 resolution                     Removed            Masssive source code cleanup (commented/not used code)         Added            Search .chd files in "\softlist_name\" sub-folder for MAME software lists            Support to search .chd file in "\parent_gamename\" sub-folder; MAME supports this; "romspath\parent_gamename\clonename_file.chd"
                - now you can have clone CHD files in the parent folder
                - for MAME arcade, MAME software list, Demul                        New file "arcade\filters\supermodelsegamodel3_control_type.ini"
                - a list of control tags and descriptions, extracted from Supermodel3 source code
                - for now, it only show controls list in "Game Details" screen; not used anywhere else                        File header detection for "Atari 800" cartridges before running games (highy experimental, used by all Atari800 emulators, except MAME)
                - the first 4 bytes of file will be read, looking for 'C' 'A' 'R' 'T'
                - if tag is found, Emu Loader will no longer add the cartridge type in the full command line
                - any file extension is supported for unzipped game files
                - for zipped game files, Emu Loader will unzip it to a TMemoryStream and validate the tag; only ".bin; .car; .rom" file extensions are supported
                    (if there's more than one file inside .zip, the first one found with any of the 3 supported extensions will be used)                        HBMAME Software List support, to be used in the distant future, in a galaxy far, far way... what works:
                - create games list
                - audit games files
                - show softlist games in main games list
                - run games
                - for everything else, they are handled as MAME softlist games (for now)                        Setting "Restore Internet Game Info at Startup", to restore the last state of internet game info button at startup ("Preferences" screen, "General" tab)            Setting "Disable Threaded Preview Image Loading" in "Preferences" screen / "Images" page, to prevent images loading delay and "Invalid pointer operation" error            Support for MAME 0.196
                - new comm setting: "Syncronize Frames" in "Input" tab                  

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