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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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Outsource / Automate Cache-Building from Wiiflow #5

Closed kaisersozeh closed 6 years ago

kaisersozeh commented 6 years ago

The images actually used by wiiflow are a cache of the png's found in the 'covers folders. It's wiiflow that build's this cache of images, with large collections taking many hours to complete the process, manually moving focus from one image to the next. It's intended that the cache is built on-the-fly, as users explore new content, but performance is severely impeded by the caching process, leading to a frustrating user experience. Automate the in-wiiflow cache building process to an executable batch, initialised from within the interface, such that leavers can leave wiiflow running the process unsupervised. Generate command line software to build the cache using windows, mac, linux Generate GUI software to achieve this.

einsteinx2 commented 6 years ago

This can definitely be done. Since we have the code that runs when an individual game is selected, it should be as easy as going through all the games and running that code. Since we already have a similar example with the cover downloader, it should be possible to copy that and modify it for this purpose.

einsteinx2 commented 6 years ago

Looks like Wiimpathy already did this and Fledge is merging it into WiiFlow Lite!