HLHQ Ability to disable/enable systems and roms

[nosh]

This is something that has come up before. We know that HS currently has no ability to easily disable or enable systems/roms and the only solution is to comment them out manually.

So why not comment/uncomment nodes from code. At least in my world .NET C# this is possible using XmlDocument. There is a method for creating a comment node as well as an ability to read them. I don't know what HLHQ is written in but i figured this is worth mentioning. I realize commenting/uncommenting is not ideal or very efficient, adding attributes to the element would be the best case but we dont have that option.

Just throwing this out there, let me know what you think.

 

[brolly]

That would be yet another workaround to get past something that could be implemented on the HS side in under 5 minutes.

Stuff like that go outside the scope of HLHQ which is simply a frontend for HL not a tool to edit other frontend databases.
And coding this would be more trouble than what you might think, commenting games might be simple (even then not that much since I don't read everything from the HS XML files because I don't need to), but what about uncommenting them? I'd need at least one extra screen to see commented games and enable them back. Honestly don't think it's worth to invest the time on something that you can do by simply enabling roms only on HS for instance.

 

[nosh]

Ya i see where your coming from and totally agree. Makes more sense to be fixed on HS side.