[mythtv-users] mythgame problems with catver.ini?

[Michael Cowell]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:

>
>
> On 10/27/05, *Pat Vaughan* <mythtv at pvaughan.us 
> <mailto:mythtv at pvaughan.us>> wrote:
>
>     I've just started working on getting mythgame working, and am
>     having some
>     success.  If I don't use a catver.ini file the mythgame rom
>     browser shows
>     me the system genre and gamename (I took out year).  If I use a
>     populated
>     catver.ini, I get system and genre, but I can't go past genre to
>     select
>     the gamename.  It's only showing me the genres for games that I do
>     have,
>     so I think it's populating the database, but haven't looked into the
>     tables yet.
>
>     Has this been seen before?  I couldn't find anything exactly like
>     this in
>     google.
>
>
>
> If it's anything like what I've seen, you've got a catver.ini in DOS 
> format.  Try unzipping it with the "-a" switch to get it in Unix text 
> format, then rescan for games.
>
> Carl Fongheiser
>
The problem is that the trailing line feed gets inserted into the 
database, which prevents the later *search* query (which has the line 
feed stripped by virtue of passing through a QT control) from matching 
anything. I wrote a patch to fix this, i.e. allow bos DOS and UNIX 
format catver.inis to be used (along with a few other bugs in mythgame 
that prevented me from using it)... but I didn't submit anything because 
the current SVN code for mythgame is completely different from 18.1.

Michael Cowell