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'Search Game' plugin for PinballX front-end, by 7he S4ge Version 1.0.1 - 2022-05 Installation : Copy PinballXSearchGame.dll and INIFileParser.dll into the plugins folder of installation of PinballX. Ex : C:\Games\PinballX\Plugins Configure : Launch PluginManager.exe and active the plugin. Click on Configure button for configure keys to open the plugin and navigate into it. Remarks : - API of PinballX does not allow to launch a game, but you can modify the parameters to the executable software. So this plugin attempt to add good parameters for each situation (with systems like Visual Pinball, MAME...), but it's not perfect. - When you select a game in the Search dialog, the game is not launched automatically (API does not allow that), you must open the menu of PinballX and select 'Play Game'. Remark : if your key for select a game in 'Search Game' plugin is similar to the key of PinballX for select a game, when you choose a game in the search dialog, the dialog is closed and the key is given to PinballX too. So I like the behavior : you choose a game and the menu of PinballX also opens. - Because the API does not to launch directly a table, the executable of the current system is used. So the plugin displays only the list of games in the current system. Bugs : - When we launch a game, topper and DMD medias of the current game stay in the screens (if the new game has no topper and dmd medias) - If you use plugins with dialogs like PBXStatsDisplay, when you open the 'Search game' dialog, the others dialogs disappear. --> This is a first version, it's works for me, but maybe not for all users, and certainly not for specific systems configurations. Tell me the errors/bugs you find, and I will try to fix. The code source can help developers for debugging the problem. --> This plugin show how a search function will be cool in the front-end, so maybe the API of plugins will be improved ! Changes Log : 1.0 First version 1.0.1 Corrections : name of the system was not always found in PinballX.ini, force reading XML databases files in UTF-8 encoding PinballXSearchGame_1.0.1.zip PinballXSearchGame_1.0.1_SourceCode.zip

Hi, thank you for testing. I get the name of the system in the PinballX.ini file and I expect a property like 'Name' but in your file it's 'NAME'. I will change the code for a 'case-insensitive' process. Can you check if the plugin load tables in the search dialog, after correction of the .ini file ?

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