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Awesome! Even if you can just point me in the direction of some documentation (or just describe it to me) on where in the file I can find the data, and maybe what kind of checks I can do to verify the file (ie the claim_story_file functions in Babel), I can just write it myself. Thanks!!

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A (very low priority) feature suggestion would be to select a cover image from the hard drive, regardless of there being any cover image on IFDB. I'm thinking mainly of Spectrum games here, where I can get a cover for most of them but most of them aren't in IFDB.

And a bug. Editing games AFTER I import their info from IFDB (via the magnifying glass) is a pain. The game's name often doesn't refresh if I happen to change it (for instance, to add "Enchanter 2:" just before Sorcerer). By way of editing genres, I now have two genres, "Back to Life series" and "back to life", and the game "Back to Life... Unfortunately!" (the game whose genre I edited to remove the "series") doesn't appear in any of them (i.e., when I select "genre" and "back to life" or "Back to Life series" I don't see the game there). This only seems to happen after importing the IFDB information. It's not a biggie in that I work around it by simply closing the left-hand pane, but it is a bug.

The solution is to upload the covers to IFDB. You'll do a service to the community at the same time!

They are probably still under copyright.

I'd have to upload covers, create entries, et al. That'll be for later.

I'm labouring under a grandiose secret project, you see.

First step: cathegorize all adventures in my hard drive, playing them alphabetically in the meantime.

This is just for me to get my bearings.

Second step: Revisit them all, alphabetically and independently of system, thanks to Grotesque, and check IFDB for entries and reviews. Create entries where there aren't, and review games that need revieweing.

Very, very, very long-term project. In the meantime I'd like not to mix steps and just keep on cathegorizing my hard drive neatly.

I'm not a lawyer but I believe low resolution cover art falls under fair use in this context. IFDB even has an option to tag the image as such.

This has more or less been implemented, I'm just working out a bug or two now. Assuming that you have each game in its own folder, all you have to do is save the image as cover.jpg or cover.png and it will be displayed. This will be in the next release.



I've fixed a couple bugs in the filter list...I wonder if these are related?
Regarding the title, I can't replicate this. If I search via the magnifying glass and then I edit the title, things are saved just fine. Hopefully this means that I fixed the bug. Otherwise, I'm hoping it's not a Windows thing. I can replicate the genre thing. I'll fix that before the next release. Thanks for letting me know!

I'm more or less done with the release, short of a couple small bug fixes I hope to do tonight, then I need to port it to gtk2, fix whatever bugs I introduce by doing that, and then build the Windows version. So....hopefully this weekend?

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What a happy weekend I shall have.

BTW, the bug regarding editing happened AFTER importing via magnifying glass and AFTER clicking ok - it happened when I went back to the entry to edit it. If it's already solved so much the better.

Wow, what a dumb (but major) bug that genre (and author, coincidentally) editing problem was.
It's been fixed.

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Ah ok, it happened to me now. Trying to figure out what is happening, because it's updating in the information view below...

I'm curious to hear how this major project is using Grotesque

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