Small problems using 40+ systems

[DonRobby]

Sorry to bother you guys but I think I found some small problems. I have created seperate folders for Visual Pinball tables by creating multiple systems. I created folders for every developer with 2 or more tables inside. And a folder for EM, a folder for Original and a folder for P-ROC. Also the default system for Visual Pinball was upgraded to start VPX 10.7.2 and the default system for Future Pinball was upgraded to run the latest FP BAM. Up to 40 systems no problem to import tables in the game manager, but the settings allow up to 60 (+2 default systems). So after custom  system 40 I had to manually create xml files for the database. That also seems to work fine but when I started to create images for system logo to identify all those systems and there it goes a bit funky. All the pictures are shown correct when you open the systems list, but it stops displaying those images at system 49 and after when you open that list. At all the other systems this picture is shown on the top right side below the table manufacturer. Also when disabling one of the systems (or the default systems for FP and VP) it shows the picture of system 50 and/or system 51. This is not a big problem but a weird issue when somebody takes customizing the frontend to the limit.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Can you post your log.txt file and your pinballx.ini ?

And wow. Very creative to have such many systems. I was thinking myself to split my vpx (1100 tables) to subset systems, but was too much work for me 😂

[DonRobby]

Okay here are the files you requested

PinballX.ini log.txt

[Mike_da_Spike]

i will try to test it tomorrow as well

[DonRobby]

Good luck. It is tough to start organizing it but once it works it feels really satisfying. Once you go beyond 100 tables things can be a bit messy browsing through them. I got around 850 running in the frontend and many many more as reserve (collected since 2016). The main reason I did it is to keep it clean.  Using table audio, custom handmade table images and many downloaded wheels also makes it visually cool to see

[Mike_da_Spike]

I use now filters, but that is just a filter as system.

My plan was to create system from a filter, but that will screw up the statistics. Same if I move all over to a new system, thats why I never did it.

But to test your issue, i will try to reproduce it

[Mike_da_Spike]

I added your 51 systems to my test environment. 
All the systems, I gave another image (just a wheel image), launching PBX and all images are different .
I even added extra systems to fill up to 60, but still all the system images are different.

 

Maybe your harddrive is filling up ?
Or try to empty your cache folder (%temp%)

Btw ... If an XML file was missing when you created an extra system, just launch Database manager. It will created missing database directories, files and even creates the correct media folders.

 

[DonRobby]

Yeah on this screen they all show. But if you add a game in each folder and open the system itself then it's missing suddenly starting from system 51 (or 49 if you use the 2 defaults for VP and FP as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCAo1CdqW6w

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Not following you completly and your video is going pretty fast to see the issue.

So the system wheel is fine and showing all systems with correct images, until you select a system and you go back to the system wheel?

[DonRobby]

Yeah it's kinda like you say. So on the top right side you see the manufacturer and below that the system logo. Then I go back to the systems list and select system 50 in my list. Then you see the New Wave table and it doesn't show the system logo on this screen. Then I just went back to my favorites and there you see the image for the default VPX system. Same goes for the system for P-ROC wich is system 51 in my list. And when you disable one or 2 systems then they show the system logo without any issue. I was kinda thinking I had a name issue or something, tried shuffling some systems around but it can only show 51 system logo's somehow so I just put the 2 least used systems on the bottom

[Mike_da_Spike]

@Tom Speirs, is this something you can fix in code?

I tried to reproduce it, but hard to setup 50+ systems with entries and content