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I'm slowly but surely making progress on integrating my two programs into an all-in-one solution, while implementing new features and fixing bugs. Some of the new implementations:

- To optimize memory and speed, I decided to generate my own database master file. It will come packaged with Lightspeed, so you don't need to worry about creating it, but every time a new version of MAME is released, you will need to generate a new listxml file anyway, so in that process, a new database file will be created as well. It takes about 20-30 seconds or so. Once it's created, then starting Lightspeed shouldn't take longer than 6-7 seconds.
- Huge speed improvements thanks to the method above. Granted that not all filters are hooked just yet (need to re-write them all...), at this point to produce a fully filtered list of about 7000 games it's taking about 4 seconds, which is more than double the speed of previous methods!
- GUI is now fully resizable, going to as low as 800x600 and as high as your monitor allow.
- "&" Ampersand characters now showing correctly
- There are now 5 different listviews: Full List, Parents, Clones, Search and Output. The first 3 never change and are there as data sources only. You will be able to select any number of rows and sent those games to the output list with a single click. The search listview will contain the results of your searches, initially by: terms in any of the columns, in the description, in rom name, in year, in manufacturer. As with the other lists, you can select any number of games and send those to the output list as you wish. The output list is what you will get when exporting. You can remove games from it or send games from other lists into it at any given time.
- You can launch games from any list. Simply double-click a game and it will launch through MAME, no matter which list you are at.
- Added all other MAME artwork folders. All those folders are being parsed on startup every time you open Lightspeed, so it will list all the artwork you have and everything missing as well, which can be later on exported as missing/have lists. It's a fast process and it's already included in the 6-7 seconds that takes for the whole program to load.
- Added the arcade machine artwork, which supports snap and marquee preview

Things are quite temporary in those screenshots, but at least you have an idea about the progress (see attachments).

More to come and still a LOT left, but I will get there.

Cheers,
-Kris

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