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Well, it's easier to always do something that's probably "not neccessary" (but still correct) than doing different things in "slightly different" situations ...

I guess that multi-device sw-list entries should be supported correctly now...

Next I'm trying to find a good way to implement multi-device setups from mixed sw-list entries.

I agree 100%, and I would probably adopt the same approach if I had to write a frontend. Anyway, I was suggesting to keep in mind the presence of the interface parameter as well, e.g. if you want to filter entries of a list containing mixed devices depending on the device where they can be mounted

Guess I found a solution to this:

1) make each sw-list entry the root item of a tree (the lists are already shown in QTreeWidget's, so that's possible without too many changes)

2) when the user expands the tree, QMC2 will show the 'parts' in more detail, allowing the user to explicitly 'select' a part and optionally change its 'mount-device'

3) this can be done for multiple sw-list entries / parts at a time

4) 'lauchning' then means to use the specified setup instead of any automatic device-mapping

5) consider adding a way to save those setups (low priority)

Just needs to be done ...

While I was working on integrating 'mount-device selection', I found things like these (software-list 'lisa'):


(this is NOT in SVN because it's simply not working correctly yet!)

I'm not sure where the mistake is... according to QMC2, the lisa2 driver only supports 2 device instances (mountable devices), but this SW-list entry suggests there can be more!? Could someone explain?

And what should I do in such cases? Right now, QMC2 falls back to the first device instance it found (for the interface) when it can't find a match... but probably the correct way to solve this would be to NOT mount parts that cause conflicts.

I don't understand exactly the issue... is it the fact that lofsys20 has 5 disks which gives you problems, despite lisa having two disk drives?

a softlist item ideally represents the original package you would have bought in a computer shop. so if "Lisa Office 2.0" came with 5 disks, you find here 5 <parts>

of course, when you are at home and your computer only has two drives, you have to decide which disks you want to mount at start and which you keep out from the computer, ready to be inserted later...

or am I missing your problem?

EDIT: and by the way, nice tree structure!

Yeah, I can see the reason why there are more disks... but the question is, for a front-end, how to decide which disks to specify on the command line as 'mounted images' (when doing it automatically, that is)?

from command line, there is no way to pre-determine it, at the moment, or to define it in the list.
to avoid wild guesses which might lead to problems, I'd go with disk 1 in floppy1 and disk 2 in floppy2... and let the user to change the disks if required.

OK, that's what I already thought... thanks!

Automatic mount selection should now work as discussed:



I hope to complete this stuff during the next few days... then I'll commit it to SVN. Enough for today .