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Vas Crabb
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Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE.
02/28/18 11:22 AM


> I feel the pain as well - my front-end also depends on a quick and simple game list
> to drive it rather than waiting 30+ second of capture and parsing of XML - not to
> mention XML breaking from time to time. Anyway, I suspect only way to really work
> with it at the moment and produce the only the game list is to monitor the first
> letter of the setname at each line and stop reading/capture of names as soon as the
> next entry is in not in sequential order since all the games fed first and are sorted
> with the devices thrown in afterwords.

So do what qmc2 does and import the XML to a database that you can query quickly. That's going to be more efficient and flexible than trying to parse a list on each launch.







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* [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. John IV 02/28/18 04:24 AM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. John IV  03/02/18 07:02 AM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. Vas Crabb  02/28/18 10:49 AM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. TafoidAdministrator  02/28/18 11:12 AM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. CiroConsentino  02/28/18 02:16 PM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. John IV  02/28/18 07:14 PM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. Vas Crabb  03/01/18 07:09 AM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. Vas Crabb  02/28/18 11:22 AM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. TafoidAdministrator  02/28/18 12:24 PM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. R. Belmont  03/01/18 11:12 PM
. * Re: [Q] Devices now showing up in FE. CiroConsentino  03/02/18 01:26 AM

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