Jim Leonard

Results 42 issues of Jim Leonard

Help screen is currently a single screen with built-in word-wrap, with a special condensed screen for 40-col mode. We are going to need a better help system because the list...

UX

User should be able to tell TDL to extract every title to cache. This is useful for prepping a show system for the public (so that they won't have to...

TDL_cache

Currently there is no cache management strategy: Nothing is cleaned up, and if there is no space for a title, it will fail during extraction phase. We should have a...

TDL_cache

Some mouse support is already in the TOT libraries used, but there is no mouse support in the main launcher screen. I'm guessing someone is going to want to be...

UX

Modify colors.ini to accept a font file for various text modes. INI could look something like: 8x8=8x8cour.fnt 8x16=16couri.fnt ...etc. Save and restore font so that launched programs don't look weird.

UX

Allow altering text colors via modification of the VGA palette. Modify colors.ini to accept palette remapping for a specific color. Ensure that the default palette on program entry is saved...

UX

TDL's killer feature is search filtering as the user types. Indexes need to be created in by tdl_indexer to support this. file_formats.txt has the file definitions.

UX
TDL_indexes

Requested by a user. Create colors.ini and add into it both a color and a mono scheme. Clearly define what user interface elements are changed, and list the default text...

enhancement

While this behavior was exceedingly rare on real hardware (I know of only one clone I've seen it on), it is very useful to know when it is, and isn't,...

enhancement

Users should be able to choose the "LED" position on startup via a command-line option, something like "1" through "4" for UL, UR, LR, LL respectively.

enhancement