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Additional features for plugins and glows in the launcher #261

Closed gilgilgan closed 9 months ago

gilgilgan commented 10 months ago

New Feature

When I insert a plugin from the UI, the program always asks me for one of two save locations. I don't think most users will want to store it in a distributed fashion. I think it would be better if you could choose one of the two positions in the settings and then forget about it. I think it would be nice to consolidate them into one arbitrary location without giving them a choice, unless there's a good reason not to.

Also, I've noticed that when I open the plugins.txt file after working on a plugin in the UI, there are a lot of empty returns with nothing in them. The empty returns seem to persist even when the plugin is inserted and then deleted.

The glowing string effect is cool and I can't turn it off, but it's a shame that when the glow is at its brightest, it completely covers the character, making it hard to see. If you could specify a midpoint for the glow in the options instead of turning it off completely, I think you could have both readability and coolness.

krazynez commented 10 months ago

New Feature

When I insert a plugin from the UI, the program always asks me for one of two save locations. I don't think most users will want to store it in a distributed fashion. I think it would be better if you could choose one of the two positions in the settings and then forget about it. I think it would be nice to consolidate them into one arbitrary location without giving them a choice, unless there's a good reason not to.

Also, I've noticed that when I open the plugins.txt file after working on a plugin in the UI, there are a lot of empty returns with nothing in them. The empty returns seem to persist even when the plugin is inserted and then deleted.

The glowing string effect is cool and I can't turn it off, but it's a shame that when the glow is at its brightest, it completely covers the character, making it hard to see. If you could specify a midpoint for the glow in the options instead of turning it off completely, I think you could have both readability and coolness.

1.) That is possible, I know initially thinking when I joined was probably to consolidate everything in one folder ARK_01234 just so it could be moved around. But yeah even I just use SEPLUGINS to save my PLUGINS.TXT. The only biggy would be for Full Flash Installation it looks in ARK_01234 first then SEPLUGINS if not found.

2.) Yeah I am going to look into that today I think I noticed it also.

3.) Good point I like that idea.

JoseAaronLopezGarcia commented 10 months ago

The only reason we keep the ability to have PLUGINS.TXT on ARK_01234 is for backwards compatibility with ARK-2 installations. We can get rid of that step in the plugin installer and just have it write to SEPLUGINS to simplify it for users, without actually removing the feature.

The only biggy would be for Full Flash Installation it looks in ARK_01234 first then SEPLUGINS if not found.

No this is completely unrelated and unaffected.

krazynez commented 10 months ago

The glowing string effect is cool and I can't turn it off, but it's a shame that when the glow is at its brightest, it completely covers the character, making it hard to see. If you could specify a midpoint for the glow in the options instead of turning it off completely, I think you could have both readability and coolness.

https://github.com/PSP-Archive/ARK-4/releases/download/v1697633054/ARK-4-v1697633054.zip now has a scale

JoseAaronLopezGarcia commented 10 months ago

Is this done?

gilgilgan commented 10 months ago

I installed it with fasterark but don't seem to see any changes...

krazynez commented 10 months ago

its not in stable only pre-release. For text glow that is

JoseAaronLopezGarcia commented 9 months ago

Wasn't this already released? Closing.