#7466 closed feature request
TOOLS: Add a GUI to the various recompress tools
| Reported by: | fingolfin | Owned by: | sev- |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Tools |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
I guess for many of our not-so-experienced users, it would be nice to have a single programm which integrates the various compression tools with a GUI atop...
At least for X11, Windows, Mac OS X. That should cover 98% of our users; handheld users most likely use one of theses systems as host system, after all).
To this end, one could either use a cross platform toolkit (e.g. wxWindows), or make dedicated tools for each platform.
Additionally, those tools could also include encoders for OGG/LAME/ FLAC, to avoid any additional dependencies.
A typical use case then would be: 1) Start ScummVMCompressor GUI tool 2) A big window with a "Drop file here" drop field and a "Select" button shows up 3) User either drops file(s) into the drop field, or presses the "Select" button to get a file selector from which files are choosen 4) Program automatically determines which file it sees, and selects the correct encoder 5) A "Conversion" dialog is shown. It shows the old file, the new file (name) (maybe with the option to choose another output destination), and a "compression level" slider, as well as a widget where one can choose the compression format (OGG, MP3, FLAC). There's a button (or so) for "Expert settings" where one can fine tune all the optional params.
6) The user presses the "Convert" button (maybe after changing some of the default settings)
7) A progress dialog is shown, the file is converted
8) A success/failure message is shown to the user. Possibly telling them "You can now delete the old XYZ file."
9) Done.
None of these is very hard. Several people already made simply ScummVM launchers/frontends for various systems. Maybe we can get some of these folks to make encoder front ends, too? Maybe there are already some out there... ?
Ticket imported from: #1393757. Ticket imported from: feature-requests/282.
Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
Is this obsolete now that the toolsgui branch is merged or you prefer leaving it open for certain features still not implemented?
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
The tools GUI code we have is a start, but still a far cry from what I describe here. I wouldn't call it particularly user friendly right now.
So, let's keep this open for a big longer ;-)
comment:5 by , 14 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:6 by , 5 years ago
| Component: | → Tools |
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Seems bgbennboy is working on such a tool for Windows (see <http:// quick.mixnmojo.com/>) -- very nice!