Release Name: 0.2.b10
Notes:
Today we proudly announce the release of QMC2 0.2.b10. Besides a few bug fixes, the most important changes in this release include the following:
* Built-in support for dynamic loading of Qt style sheets
* Support for PCB images as an additional game/machine detail
* New MAWS quick download feature (supports manual and automatic downloads of images that are usable by QMC2)
* Greatly improved download retry logic & timing
* Enhanced ghost image with rounded corners and a semi-transparent shadow
Emulator-wise, QMC2 0.2.b10’s configuration templates are in sync with
SDLMAME/
MAME/MAMEUIFX32 0.133 and SDLMESS/
MESS 0.132. Template updates for SDLMESS/
MESS 0.133 will be posted here as soon as it’s available.
Windows users should note this: case-insensitive obsoleteness checks (image- and sample-checks) are currently/still not working correctly. For now, make sure to use only lower case letters for all PNG files (i. e. galaga.png instead of Galaga.PNG) or ignore the obsoleteness check results on Windows!
See change-log for more information.
Have fun,
The QMC2 dev-team
Changes:
* fix: clear MAWS lookup correctly when reloading game list
* fix: corrected icon size adjustment for mini web browser, detail setup and ROM status exporter
* fix: fixed a series of race conditions with activated Qt style sheets (Qt 4.5.2+ is recommended when using style sheets)
* fix: audio player: when starting to play a new track, scroll playlist to the file currently played
* fix: disable a number of widgets to avoid launching of modal dialogs when the emulator and/or game/machine info DBs are loaded (would interrupt the load progress)
* imp: log discovered emulator type (
MAME or
MESS) together with its version
* imp: download manager: remember / preselect last storage path when presenting the file name chooser, show download details in tool tip
* imp: about dialog: using QDesktopServices to launch default browser when following links
* imp:
SDLMAME/
MAME/MAMEUIFX32 templates updated to 0.133 (new option burnin, crsshairpath changed to crosshairpath)
* imp: SDLMESS/
MESS templates updated to 0.132 (no new options)
* imp: ghost image enhanced (rounded corners with a semi-transparent shadow)
* imp: updated redistributed Qt translations to Qt 4.5.2
* imp: greatly improved download retry logic & timing
* imp: build: added new distribution specific build configuration for Debian Squeeze (thanks to Tomasz Moń)
* imp: cosmetic: added detection of Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 to about dialog
* imp: code cleanup: set and (where possible) use QMC2_EMUTYPE_MAME/QMC2_EMUTYPE_MESS macros instead of OR´ed emulator target macros to select MAME-/MESS-only code segments
* new: built-in support for dynamic loading of Qt style sheets -- note: due to a Qt bug, for now we have to change the current working directory to the style sheet´s directory to make sure relative paths (image URLs) are handled correctly
* new: support for PCB images as an additional game/machine detail
* new: added new make option FADER_SPEED to select the speed of audio fading at build time (0: fastest/instantly, >0: slower, default: 100)
* new: MAWS quick download links (manual and automatic) -- supports all available in-game previews, title snapshots, icons and cabinet art images (flyers, cabinets, control panels, marquees and PCBs)
* wip: Greek translation (thanks to Giorgos Kostopoulos)
* doc: adopted new homepage look to all docs