Simplification of Player_xxx.bin

[Ats]

I have quite a few bin files that I have to rename each time I'm trying something on a different system. So I was thinking about that and here's my suggestion:

Instead of having

Player.bin (windows i386)
Player_linux.bin (linux i386)
Player_osx86.bin (MAC OS X intel)
Player_ss.bin (screen saver)

We could have a "players" folder with the bin files inside with the same nomenclature as Pascal units:

i386-win32.bin
i386-linux.bin
x86_64-linux.bin
arm-linux.bin
aarch64-linux.bin
and so on...

Then, in a second time, the Project section of the top menu could be simplified. Instead of listing all the exports listed above in the menu:

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There could be:

• Build and run F9
• Setup Build
  (which opens a window where we choose the unit for each OS, the compression, unused code, inlining, maybe Android stuff too...)
• Build Linux
• Build Mac
• Build Z80
• Build Android (not sure about that one since building Debug and Release are quite handy)
• Build Screensaver

Or maybe even simpler:

• Build and run F9 (simple build)
• Build for (complicated build which opens a window to choose the OS, the unit and a few options)

Still thinking about that menu, but there's definitely something to be done for simplification


And last but not least:
automatically call chmod 755 <filename> on your exported project for linux. But can that be done when running ZGE in Windows?

[VilleK]

I agree, this could be redesigned. This occurred to me recently when I was implementing the "retrocoding" platform support too.

Then again, you are most likely the only person on the planet with so many ZGE engines in use

I don't think the chmod can be done on Windows because Windows filesystems do not have an "executable" flag. Windows determines if a file is executable based on the filename extension only.

[Ats]

I'm currently thinking about how the build window could be simplified. Is it possible with pascal to scan through a folder and list every files in it (maybe only with a .bin extension) in order to create a drop-down list?
Or is it Delphi Starter? I remember seeing some kind of UI composer a few years ago.

[VilleK]

There is some code in frmMain that fills the most-recently-used list of filenames in the File menu. You could take a look there.

As for getting a list of filenames, I think there is some code in frmMain too that use "GetFiles".