Add option to change game (and other) paths from absolute to relative

theMK2k / MetropolisLauncher

A data-heavy Emulation & Gaming front-end for Windows

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Add option to change game (and other) paths from absolute to relative #19

Open lmills87 opened 6 years ago

lmills87 commented 6 years ago

To increase portability of games collection, it would be useful to be able to change game paths (and all other relevant paths) to a relative structure.

For example:

C:\Users\lmill\Desktop\Metropolis_Launcher\games\KQ1

becomes

.\games\KQ1

It would also be useful to be able to specify helper programs in this manner as well, if that feature is added. That way, the Metropolis_Launcher folder (assuming it contains games and all other relevant files) can be moved from one PC to the next without issue.

theMK2k commented 6 years ago

This is feasible.

TODO:

integrate a "portable mode" which must be activated
the portable mode needs a defined root directory
a placeholder %game_root% will be used in the directory definitions for games/roms etc.
a placeholder %emu_root% will be used in the directory definitions for emulators
when "portable mode" is activated, every directory in the database will be analyzed for compatibility with the placeholders, user decides if the mode should finally be activated

theMK2k commented 6 years ago

The %game_root% as well as %emu_root% may well be set as ".\" by the user when games AND emulators are below Metropolis Launcher's application directory.