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einsteinx2 / wiiflow-lite-einstein-mod

My customizations to WiiFlow Lite, at first focusing on polishing the UI and UX. Attempting to keep as much source compatibility as possible. Original repo here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wiiflow-lite/
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WiiXplorer argument support and integration #28

Open kaisersozeh opened 6 years ago

kaisersozeh commented 6 years ago

Much of WiiFlow's file handling and setup process could be more easily handled using WiiXplorer as a plugin - the interface is designed for file exploration and can read and edit many file types, including sound and video - by exchanging arguments WiiFlow could recruit WiiXplorer as a whole rather than, as it has, lifting functionality from WiiXplorer code. By using wiixplorer directly, such code could be removed from wiiflow, increasing the available memory. It's not so difficult to envisage a mashup of the software, A WiiFlow front-end where WiiXplorer's file browsing functionality displays images folders and texts in a coverflow, context launching by file type etc... with file sorting and and menu invocation similar to WiiFlow's. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiXplorer again there's an irc abjects #wiixplorer - your mileage may vary WiiXplorer hasn't been developed since 2013ish - largely because there's nothing more to add - I love it and can't recommend it enough

einsteinx2 commented 6 years ago

Same questions about arguments as on the media player ticket

kaisersozeh commented 6 years ago

Have a look at that wiimc thread linked - I've just tagged you

kaisersozeh commented 6 years ago

WiiFlow now accepts arguments - how might a WiiXplorer plugin replace WiiFlow code? WiiFlow's ability to define the folders it uses takes up a lot of GUI space, and is incomplete at best. Instead, when then a user initiates defining, say, a folder containing a NAND - WiiXplorer is opened, with the flag - " give me the path to the NAND folder" The user accesses an interface designed to browse folders to arrive at the the desired location, and selects a "select this folder" button - WiiXplorer code is extremely well documented, this functionality should be relatively easy to implement. WiiXplorer then boots wiiflow with " This is the folder location for the flag "path to nand folder"" Job done. Anything WiiXplorer can do better can be removed from WiiFlow