Have reverse engineered the uplay launcher a
little bit, and managed to extract some of the
useful file structures to be able to parse the
useful bits of teh uplay game library. Need to
properly extract the games info from it though.
Also fixed console messages as well. The programme
is just about working properly! I'm going to start
creating branches now as it is nearly at ready for a
v1.0!
Am able to minimise on start, or run normally
using a simple checkbox on the main form.
Maintains the setting over different runs using
a settings json file stored in the AppData directory.
Added initial notify icon shortcut menu. Have yet
to hook it up to programme start so that it gets
populated.
Also tried to do some tiy up of the Main procedure
of the Program.cs.
The ApplyProfile had some logic that would stop
reverting the profile after the game/exe was exited.
This should now be fixed.
Also attempted a fix to centralise the timer circle
in the middle window while applying a profile.
The shortcut editing window was broken and was
not copying the information across properly to the
new shortcuts when the shortcut was edited. I have
now moved to actually replacing the shortcut when
the form updates it. So basically the ShortcutForm
loads the shortcut info from the ShortcutItem, then
when you save the form, it returns a new ShortcutItem.
The shortcut library then removes the old shortcut
(which removes the icons, and updates the file), then
it saves the new shortcut we just created (which saves
the icons and updates the save file). This was the easiest
way to make the shortcut modification process work.
Icon logic works well now except for a single issue.
It will not change the shortcut image if the profile
or the game has been changed, and it needs to.
The Bitmap processing wasm't working in the
listitemview. Traced it to a problem with a missing
GenerateThumbnailView call.
Also adjusted when the save to icon cache happens
so that it is part of the ShortcutItem and is called
when a new shortcut is created. This saves times.
The StartPrograms processes now all correctly are added
to a list of processes to stop only if the user requested they
are stopped.
Additionally, a 300ms delay was added after SteamGame is
launched to give it time to actually run the darn game! It was
erroring due to testing for the launch too quickly. Steam
takes a wee bit of time to start the game, and we need to
account for that.
The RunShortcut commandline option mostly works
but it fails to cleanly execute thanks to a partially broken
Program.ApplyProfile. The ApplyProfile exception logic
is not working properly and that is causing an exception
in Program.RunShortcut. Just needs some improved
ApplyProfile logic to detect when it does actually
(correctly) fail.
This change loads the start programs into
the form. The structure of the ShortcutItem
changes are designed to be extensible to a
large number of start programs, but the UI
only supports 4. The plan is to add as many
as you want in the WPF version of this app,
but right now its not worth the effort :).
Program to start UI works as intended. It's
a bit basic but will be good enough until
I manage to get to the WPF rewrite in a
year or so! Next step is to start adding the
background changes to the ShortcutItem
to store the information in the JSON.
Had missed the shortcutsave button so it
wold be disabled on load, even if the shortcut
was a valid shortcut. This is now changed so
that it works fine on load.
Have also changed the shortcut library selection
colours to match the rest of the application.
Adding these checkboxes will let the user
easily temporarily disable running a program
without losing the very complicated arguments
passed to the program. This is especially true if
it is a thing like SimHub or something like that!
This is the first design for a simple form to
detail the programs that the user wants us to start
before the main Game. This is a first go and
is only the initial draft.
Made the IsPossible deviceIdentification work
correctly with the NvAPIWrapper logic. Issue
was caused by me not really understanding what
the NVIDIA documentation meant. This has been
rectified. HeliosPlus will now invalidate any profiles
that won't work with the currntly attached screens.
I'd made a revision to the Paths and Topologies
equality comparison and it used Equals for
sequences rather than SequenceEqual as it should.
Comparison works correctly now.
Fixed up some broken logic around detecting
loadedProfiles as the currentProfile. Now when
we load the profiles from disk we also correctly
check whether one of the profiles is in use now
and if it is then we use that profile instead of
creating a new one.
I broke the circularProgressBar but now it works
fine. Messed with the style a bit to get the look
I wanted. Also adjusted the positioning of the
text in the middle.
Added some logic to check if either the from or to
profile conatins an NVIDIA surround screen. If not,
then there is no need to apply a GridTopology as it
is all single devices! Saves up to 15 seconds on
swap over.
Was missing a SetTopologies command from upstream
and the latest GeForce devices don't seem to be able to
read EDID which means the Topologies dont have a
DisplayName peroperty, which in turn causes issues when
trying to change to that topology! So now detect empty
DisplayName and fill it with a default.
Fixed the WindowsDisplayAPI Device Identifcation
logic so that it reliably detects the displays in a way
that works when some displays are disabled as well
as when they are enabled. Also divided up the
DeviceIdentification into two separate functions so
that one will list all attached devices, and the other
will only report the devices currently in use.
DisplayUI is mostly working but it needs some work
fixing the error situations when the PathInfo can't be
applied properly. Need a way of setting the Task
result from the Task Action. Don't know how to do that
so something new to learn!
