Changelogs 2006
Version 0.5.899 (2006.12.31)
- ROMDB-GET now search for the selected ROM! (online website)
- rearange some widgeds on the right info pane (tabbed)
* Added DATA-View to pane
* Moved esearch to pane
* Moved romdb to pane
* Moved image-handling to pane
** Added some helptexts for images and romdb
- changed split for romdb to '.'
- updated the temp-folder create
- Added some more tooltips
- Navigation area now fixed.
Version 0.5.898 (2006.12.31)
- fixed space error - emulator could not be started if spaces in filename!
- Fixed a focus bug media-edit. Now it is possible to edit metadata.
- Added some tooltips for eccdb, navigation and main rom-view!
- Rename eccdb within ecc into eccdb_EMPTY for updates!
- Added shortcuts
* a = add new roms
* e = edit media
* b = bookmark
* x = remove from eccdb
- Implement new ini "eccnavigation.ini" only for navigation
** This ini isnt transfered into user folder for updates!
** removed all nav-elements form eccgeneral.ini
- Added ecc.ex v1.3.9.2
- Try to improved gui for Resolution 1024x768 (Open Status-Detail area)
- Added new platforms
* Thomson MO5
* Sega Megadrive 32X (also remove 32x from genesis/megadrive config)
* Atari 400
* Atari 800
* Playstation 1
* Added Wonderswan nav image
Version 0.5.897 (2006.12.29)
- Center all popup/dialog-windows
- ecc-core update (new dll fixes keystroke errors)
- Added new platforms
* sega sg1000
* sega sc3000
** Splitted wonderswan to b/w and color platform

Version 0.5.896 (2006.12.29) PUBLIC RELEASE
- Add new field to database :-)
Version 0.5.895 (2006.12.28)
- eccdb/add improvements
** implemented status-area update
- Fixed category dropdown bug - on change emu-config!
- Cleaned all platform configs
Version 0.5.894 (2006.12.23)
- eccdb webservice
* Post implemented!
* Button for ecc db transfer added
- Added license-notes
- Added file_id.diz
- Update some copyright notes
Version 0.5.893 (2006.12.18)
- Added new Folder "ecc-user-configs"
* This folder make it easier to update the ecc-system without overwriting
* user configurations every time
* On startup, ecc checks, if this folder is available... if not, creates it
history.ini is autocreated in this folder (it could be deleted on errors)
general.ini is autocreated in this folder (it could be deleted on errors)
Every platform.ini changed by the user is auto transfered into this folder
** Backups of platform.ini are created in this folder to
- Refactored some ini functions
- Added a "unset ratings"-context menu item!
- create a deploy script for some pre-release tasks
* implemented eccCore.dat for internal configurations
* writen some trash collection functions for eg bak files
- Fixed some glitches in category dropdown... not complete fixed :-(
- Fixed wrong labels in plaform-contexe-menu
- Remove some debug-outputs!
- Add some ecc_readme.txt
Version 0.5.892 (2006.12.15)
- Bold font in search box
- Added new reset reg command for ecc.exe
- Optimized ecc-configuration area
- Temporarily removed webservices
Version 0.5.891 (2006.12.13)
- Optimized categories dropdown.
- Optimize navigation
- optimized icons
- removed some option-menu-items from top menu
Version 0.5.89 (2006.12.10)
- Implemented cursor-navigation in main treeview
* Cursor-Key left/right = prev/next page
* Cursor-Key ALT+left/right = first/last page
- Implemented icons for visibility options
* Top navigation and icons no complete connected :-) TODO!
Implemented
* Navigation autoupdate
* Navigation hide empty
* Hide duplicate roms
** Hide images
- Fixed a little bug in eventbox for language-edit
Version 0.5.8899 (2006.12.05)
- Finaly fixed the link to the support forum :-)
- Added new TopMenu 'Startup' for ecc.exe commandline parameter
* implemented /deskicon
* implemented /starticon
* implemented /phpversion
* implemented /verify
** implemented /reset
Version 0.5.8898 (2006.12.03)
- Fixed problem, if user folder does not exists
- Fixed problem on save-image
- Added infotext to user-folder with version, platform name aso!
** create automaticly default ecc-user folder in ecc root directory!
- Media-Info
** Changes mediaedit-popup now also update media-info area direct!
- Added support button!
Version 0.5.8897 (2006.11.29)
- implemented direct editing of meta-flags like running, trainer aso.
- fixed a litte bug in the insert metadata-function
- removed direct rating in to... now build in media-info area!
- implement auto-update-ini for emuDownloadCenter
Version 0.5.8896 (2006.11.26)
- Media-Info
* added language-flags in mediainfo area!
added edit language button, if no language selected!
Click opens media-edit!
* First step of refactoring MediaInfo-Area and MediaEdit popup!
* Goal is direct access to change meta-data direct in MediaInfo-Area
Added direct access eventbox to the rating *
** Plans for instant update of MediaInfo-Area! (some refactoring work :-))
- Fixed support-forum link
- Added eula (to be discussed!)
- Fixed a big bug in relative-path handeling.
** refactor methods to create relative paths
Version 0.5.8895 (2006.11.19)
- Size of navigation-pane now rezizeable.
- Freeform-Search
* Now search automaticlly updates the navigation (if autoupdate selected)
* Selection of another platform in navigation dont remove search word
* Wildcard * is allowed
** Use it like this: Year 190 (results in 1990, 1980, 1970 aso)
* Restructured search-area.
* Reset button now also reset rating selector
* Rating-Selector activates Search-Activestate-Button
- Search selectors
* Added status colors for selector (Blue=default, green=changed)
Search type
Search operator
** Rating
- Help Menu (TopNavigation)
* Added links to some urls like website and forum.
* Added Offline-Documentation link
* New folder ecc-help/ with offline documentation
* Added a documentation css style and sample-pages
Version 0.5.8894 (2006.11.15)
- Freeform-Search
** Added timeout for keystrokes for better search performace
Version 0.5.8893 (2006.11.13)
- Implemented pseudo fuzzy search
* All words are splitted at the whitespace
Operators
= direct search
+ AND search
* | OR search
Version 0.5.8892 (2006.11.12)
- Implemented Freeform Search selector
* No, you can also search in other fields by freeform search
'Name',
'Year',
'Developer',
'Info',
'Fileextension',
'EccIdent',
'CRC32 Checksum',
* 'Filename/Path',
- Implemented Rating search
** Shows all rated roms ordered by rating
- Implemented new direct media-edit bar
** Implemented direct rate
Version 0.5.8891 (2006.11.07)
- Fixed a big bug in parsing roms.
Version 0.5.889 (2006.11.05)
- Implemented functions for context menue and top menu
* Menu Shell operations
Implement rename file at harddisk + automatic update of paths in eccdb
Implement copy file at harddisk + db update
Implement remove file from harddisk + dbupdate
** Reparse ROM-Directory
* Direct parse the folder of the selected rom. (if your folder has updated!)
- Fixed a bug in parser...
** if you change the platform while paring, it shows the wrong pf in popups :-)
Version 0.5.888 (2006.10.29)
- Context menu update
* Optimized structure of context menues
* Fixed problem while opening context menu
* Added rating submenu
Shows ratings in cell and mediainfo
Added a new image to show rating in cellview
* Added shell operations submenu
* Implemented browse rom folder
- Added some new categories
- implemented a new class to handle comboboxes
- Designed/Added a new splashscreen and in program teaser image
** new "emuControlCenter - explore your ROMS faster" :-)
- Added latest version of ecc.exe (1.30)
** added a hint to get eccLive (thanks to phoenix!)
- Wrote down tonns of todos and new features, i miss at this point.
* Research in other tools for interesting features :-)
* Found many but also found, that ecc will be a cool tool :-)
Version 0.5.8879 (2006.10.24)
Version 0.5.8878 (2006.10.23)
- Added 512MB RAM to my computer.... ecc runs now faster :-) (768 MB)
- Not found base_path for ecc-user will set to default folder (../ecc-user/)
- implemented 'maintenance'->'Reset ecc history' to reset the history file!
- Removed the auto ecc-splashscreen on startup, if ecc history is reseted!
- Adding experimental flag exportType to ecc_general.ini
* ECC will export datfiles with extension .ecc in datfile style
* CSV will export commaseperated files for excel/openoffice
* No import for ecc csv files implemented yet :-)
- fixed bug in create user folder
- Added new extensions to some platforms
- Added new platform "commodore vic20" (by phoenix)
- Updated images for platform "commodore c64" (by phoenix)
- Added msx nav image! (by phoenix)
Version 0.5.8877 (2006.10.16)
- finalize a extension in "add new roms" in "all found" autoupdates navigation
- Extended "organize roms" -> now uses names from metadata for orga.
- dispatcher now default off
** could be enabled [USER_SWITCHES] useExtensionDispatcher = 1
- Double fileextensions are handled be confirm-popups!
- Larger process status area
- create buggy :-( FileParserGen for genesis roms (only to validate!)
Version 0.5.8875 (2006.10.11)
- Build in fileextension to fileparser dispatcher
* dispatcher get data from header to get the right parser for rom
* Only cDispatchBin/cValidatorGen implemented this time
* not really good implemented header check :-) (i will check phoenix infos)
If not valid bin for gen, print out cmd debug info and dont parse rom!
** Better implementation in 888 ;-)
Version 0.5.887 (2006.10.08)
- Parsing: Build in extension for many platform problem finder! :-)
* Added info-popup and exclude direct at #all found
* Ask for every dup extensions for Platform parse!
* Added platform names for better overview!
- Added missing image for msx
- removed some debug output :-)
- Added [EXPERIMENTAL] section to ecc_general.ini
* Added switch to use standard win filssystem dialogs
* This mode cant remember the last selected folder/file from histroy :-(
** win32Dialogs = [0|1]
- Added latest version of ecc.exe 1.12 (by phoenix)
- Set main window title to "emuControlCenter"
- fixed a BIG bug in show unsaved images. Now search also in emu/screenshots
- fixed bug "rebuilduserfolder" in ecc config.
- fixed bug in "Configuration" i18n-language dropdown!
- fixed missing lang "parseromdetail_headers"
Version 0.5.886 (2006.10.03)
- Refactoring
* Start media / os detection
* glade constructor
- Menu->options: Radios for select view-mode in romlist (Default 1)
* 1. Show all Roms
* 2. Show all available metadata
** 3. Show only roms without metadata
- Added new Platforms
* MSX (by phoenix)
* Colorgenie (by phoenix)
Version 0.5.885 (2006.10.01)
- Menu options -> show only roms with metadata
** better overview of missing metadata
- Added showmediapp to ecc_general.ini to change the "media per page" value
- refactoring release
* Added new Singleton FACTORY and refactor manager-names
* cleanup manager-folder
- I18N
** Language dropdowns translatable
- Removed save to history.ini for "show only avalable roms"
- Listviews Roms/Platform
* add background color
* add hilight color
- Added experimental and buggy "fastlistrefresh" to ecc_general.ini
- Added experimental webservice for meta/get meta/send (not really working :-))
Version 0.5.884 (2006.09.27)
- Added color-swap tho the navigation and main list
- escape & under dos (^&)
- Added window title status "emuControlCenter vX.X build XXX (state)"
- new startup bat
* ecc.bat
* ecc-dev.bat (shows debug output)
- fixed translation in context menu
- Remove save to history for hide images
Version 0.5.883 (2006.09.25)
- Platform category could be configured in frontend!
- New Platforms added (by phoenix)
* Coleco Vision
* GCE Vectrex
** Mattel Intellivision
- Added new version of platform/media images (by phoenix)
Version 0.5.882 (2006.09.24)
- Add Platform category dropdown.
* Categories could be assigned free in ecc_platform_xxx.ini
* e.g. category = Console
** Shows only Platforms for the selected Category
- Imagepopup
** remove images in contex-menu
Version 0.5.881 (2006.09.18)
- imagepopup
** added imageselect by preview image in scrollable area! :) Cool! :-)
Version 0.5.880 (2006.09.17)
- fixed bug in saved image handling. (<0.5.88 could not find saved images)
- Preview image clickable. Opens Imagepopup.
- Mediaedit-popup
* Mot longer modal... you can get the next rom to edit from the romlist.
* Added Filename/Packed Filename to popup!
- Imagepopup
* Popup now has autofocus. A click to the romlist updates the images in popup!
* Added Imageposition label
* Buttons a now only sensitive if needed
* Imagepopup now direct show selected image (position)!
- "Show all images" added to contextmenu ROMS
- Platform navigation scrollbars added
- i18n internationalization
* ecc-config dropdown for changing languages
* i18n parser statusarea
- Platform images / emuControlCenter-Logo clickable
Version 0.5.879 (2006.09.13)
- Added gif support
- saving title screens as ecccrc32ingame_title.ext
- first version of image-popup for full images.
Version 0.5.878 (2006.09.11)
- fixed bugs:
* problem with escaped string in getEightDotThreePath()
* writing NULL into db if a ecc-datfile is imported!
Version 0.5.865/0.5.866/0.5.877 (2006.09.10)
- ecc-configuration added
* Set your user folder
create, if not exists
create all ecc-system-subfolders in user-folder
* Activate/Deactivate Platforms from gui
** Set your datfile-author informations (header for your exports!)
- i18n Internationalization/Translation
* ecc_general.ini flag language = de
* Location ecc-system/i18n/language/i18n_popups.php (lang=language 2chars eg. de,en,nl)
* I step one, all dialogs and context-menues are translatable.
Done: Context menu Platformnavigation
Done: Context menu Romlist
** Done: All Confirm/Info/File-Pathchooser-Dialogs!
** In step to, all Strings (also glade strings) are translatable via gettext!
- Start Media: add error-popup if emu is missing or wrong!
- navigation now is automaticlly sorted
- Added more image-slots for coverart and booklets
- Added support for Atari Jaguar. [by phoenix]
- Fix a bug in media-edit.
- set eccident for jaguar=jag, supervision=svn
- Added shortcuts for options and rom-actions (see main menu)
- Optimized platform navigation contextMenu
- media-info
* added archive - If rom is packed, the path of the packed file is shown.
* added location - path to the rom-/packed-file
- Added 8.3 Filename-Support for Watara-Supervision emulator
- Emus without commandline-support could be used using the RomRunner-PT [phoenix]

Version 0.5.085 (2006.08.24) RELEASE TO FIRST BETA-TESTER
- Save last selected platform to history
- Reorganize Roms by categories implemented
- MenuBar
** All options organized in top menubar
- Maintenance
* Remove duplicate roms from db implemented
* DB Vacuum -> Vacuum sqlite database
* ecc-userfolder and subfolder
ecc creates folders automaticly on demand
ecc also create missing user-folder
** subfolder could be configured in ecc_general.ini
- Absolute/Relative path convertion
* ecc create relative paths, if data is within the root dir of ecc
emulators
roms/media
* reorganize also creates relative paths, if possible
- ImageProcessing
** jpeg-compression could be configuredin ecc_general.ini
- File-Filter (File-Dialogs)
* Filefilter for Romcenter Datfiles (.dat)
* Filefilter for emuControlCenter Datfiles (.ecc)
- Spellcheck ;-)
- Tooltips wordings fixed :-)
- Images
* More ingame screenshots possible
ingamestart = startscreen of a game
* ingameplay1 = first ingame playing screenshot
* ingameplay2 = second ingame playing screenshot
* ingameplay_3 = third ingame playing screenshot
- Added platform "Watara Supervision" [by phoenix]
Version 0.5.08 (2006.07.25)
* implemented Import of emuControlCenter- and Romcenter-Datfiles
support for importing Romcenter-Datfiles
* Support 2.00/2.50 Dats with assigned fileextensions.
* Dats without fileextensions couldn?t supported by ecc :-(
* Dat-Stripper for Romcenter-Dats implemented
Clean up names from data like (PD) and [T-]
Auto-Fill ecc?s extended meta-informations from stripped data
* Languages
Freeware/PD
Year
Running (gooddump)
All stripped data is collected to field info in database!
Regular expressions could be configured in conf/ecc_dat_stripper.php
Dat-Stripper could be deactivated in conf/eccgeneral.ini
** datfile-export
* eSearch-Export
* now you can use the eSearch-options to limit your export-data!
* meta-informations like languages, status could be removed from database
* data could be automaticlly backuped by ecc
** implemented edit platform.ini
* Edit title for navigation now possible in gui
* Edit paths and assign emulator now possible in gui
** implemented new tab platform informations in main-view
* Show some facts about the platform like name, manufacurer, history, links
* own ini-file (infos/eccplatforma2600info.ini)
* maybe used for categories like in MESS (show only platforms by atari)
* implemented Active [AUTOUPDATE|NORMAL] Navigation
* navigation will only show the real result-counts of a search
combination with "Active [HIDE|SHOW] platforms w/o media" possible!
* implemented Active [HIDE|SHOW] platforms w/o media.
* clear dat database added
* optimized "optimize languages", now using multi-deletes
* added platforms
* Optimize null-data ordering, if there are no meta-infos for a file!
* Changed database
filedata = fdata
metadata = mdata
metadata_languages = mdata_languages
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
** Atari 7800
Version 0.5.07 (2006.07.16)
* Status area
progressbar
show status of export, import and parsing
could be hidden
processes could be cancled
* Extended Search
* result could be set to option = |no|no+?|yes|yes+?|?
* is saved to ecc_histroy.ini
could be hidden
* Image-Processing
* New image-system improves the speed of ecc
select start/running ingame-shots in main-view from dropdown
show only saved or only unsaved images
* Add Platform-Nav context menu
** Inline-Help system restructured!
Version 0.5.06 (2006.07.10)
* Add Media-History-Button
Shows all Media, you?ve started in the last time.
Ordered by last launchtime!
Count editeable in ecc.ini ([USERSWITCHES] mediahistory = 50)
* Image Toggle
* Now you can toggle images on/off. (saved to history.ini)
* Cellview
* Platform-Ident image added for better overview in all-mode.
Add more important infos from ecc-dat to cell
* Media-Edit
* Now, edit Meta-Data is allowed from Bookmarks and History
Now, a media could be started from media-edit window
New Comboboxes for all options
category has now a multi-wrap-dropdown
languages-edit added
* Add Languages
* Add Lanugage-Search
* Now you can search for media in specified language
Add Languages-Edit
* Languages could be added in media-edit popup
* languages will shown in cellview and media-info
* languages are exported and imported pipe-seperated
* e.g. d64;Bubble Bobble;.d64;8727EFCD;1;0;8;1;0;0;2;0;1987;0;2;E|F|S;;;;;;#
e.g. English, French, Spanish
* New Languages
* Based on data extracted form datfiles :-)
* New Categories
* based on statistics "Genre Stats" of GBA-Lister
http://gbalister.emubase.de/showstats2.de.html
* Gui
* Some improvements.
new background-color :-)
New navigation-images.
New images for plattform infos
* New Function for dropdowns.
* now all dropdowns are created on the fly.
IndexedCombobox create simple or not so simple (image/wrapped) dropdowns.
* Add confirm-popup for "remove from ecc-db"
* DEVEL-Dat-Importer
function to get informations from dat to fill extended ecc-dat-dat
* languages
* pd / freeware (PD)
* Translations (T+) (T-)
concat dat-information strings for more predefined meta-informations.
* Add Splash-Screen at startup
* only shown first time, you open ecc (saved to history.ini)
Version 0.5.05 (2006.07.04)
* new user-folder structure
now relative and absolut path could be set in ecc.ini
now every media have his own folder with subfolders eg. images and export
* better structure for sharing the media-data with other ecc user
* first step for a planned user-folder to zip backup.
refactoring image function
* save images now use new user-folder structure
* fixed little bug in save image that overwrites "image 001" sometimes. :-)
* DatfileExport
* insert credits from ecc.ini (author, web, email, comment)
** save export now use new user-folder structure
Version 0.5.04 (2006.07.03)
* ini-manager
complete refactored
save user-selections for the next ecc-session to history.ini
* navigation: save last selected plattform
* parser: save last parsed folder
* importer: save last selected eccDatFile
* Import / Export
* optimize import. Now direct export from query without data-array
* sql
* optimize queries
type-hinting and escaping.
* media-edit win
* ; in user-input not allowed. Reason Import/Export and File-Rename-Option
* parser popup
* file_lister shows found (unpacked and packed) by extension
parser shows new and changed media
* Internal windows
* media-edit popup changed to splash-screen mode
** parser popup changed to splash-screen mode
** temp. removed md5 support. ecc dont need md5 by now :-)
Version 0.5.03 (2006.07.01)
* eccini: refactored
[NAVIGATION] now creates the main-navigation of ecc
comments add for all sections
add new extensions to [FILEPARSER] section
* add "all found" to navigation.
** DatfileImport:
* ecc-datFile import implemented
* datFileImporter.php for romCenter imports. (DEVEL)
** refreshed all mdataext_game fileinformations
* MediaMaintenance:
* "all found" clear/optimize now have impact for all records.
function optimize db also optimize bookmarks
function clear db also optimize bookmarks
* internal refactoring manager
Version 0.5.02 (2006.06.20)
* MediaMaintenance
add function optimize db
add function clear db
* MediaEdit
* add usk (altersfreigabe)
add multiplayer
add netplay
** ContextMenu
* item remove from eccdb
Version 0.5.01 (2006.05.18)