Small issues with sub folders

[GM-Script-Writer-62850]

i.imgur.com/fUnGA78.png

• Developer, Publish, and Genre are ignored
• When a folder is opened the meta data is not refreshed to match the 1st game in the folder

does release date support ranges? if not that would be nice to add, eg <releasedate>19860926T000000 - 19921222T000000</releasedate> or perhaps a array type value, maybe it would be easier? <releasedate>19860926T000000,19870828T000000,19921222T000000</releasedate> Why are we not using unix time stamps for dates? is there not a built in function for date processing in c++? were you trying to make something human readable?

[nilsbyte]

First of all, i consider it a bug that developer, publisher and genre are not passed to the folder view.

Up to the current release, we have not thought through the folder view yet. This could be one of our TODOs in the future. Apart from your question how to display the date when there are more games, there are a few other things you have to consider:

• You also can put different games in a folder. Not only one series of games (e.g. Castlevania)
• You can create sub-folders within folders.
• Not every meta data element makes sense in folder view (last played, times played)
• In theming, each element of meta data is placed separately, there is no way of leaving one out if no value is returned.

I think the most practical solution for this would be:

If games are from a series (assuming meta data is the same for publisher, developer, genre and players):

RATING: An average rating of all games contained in folder. RELEASED: Period in form of YYYY – YYYY DEVELOPER: Konami PUBLISHER: Konami GENRE: Action, Adventure PLAYERS: 1 LAST PLAYED: Timespan to the date of last played game in folder. TIMES PLAYED: Totalized play count of all games contained in folder.

If games are different:

RATING: An average rating of all games contained in folder. RELEASED: Period in form of YYYY – YYYY DEVELOPER: Various PUBLISHER: Various GENRE: Various PLAYERS: Various LAST PLAYED: Timespan to the date of last played game in folder. TIMES PLAYED: Totalized play count of all games contained in folder.

[GM-Script-Writer-62850]

i think you are thinking i was meaning this for use with the scrapper feature i was thinking manual config (using a text editor to create folder meta data)

[nilsbyte]

It doesn't matter if you are editing manually (using meta data editor) or using the scraper. In the end you have meta data for each GAME. Editing FOLDERS in terms of meta data makes no sense at all. Like I said, the most practical solution is the one above.

I was describing the look of a folder when selecting it, not entering it. Of course when entering, meta data should update to show info on the first game. This is also a bug.

I will discuss this with @Aloshi.