GUI launcher

[djhworld]

At the moment the whole emulator is launched using command line settings.

Might be worth considering creating some sort of GUI that

• Changes emulator settings (e.g. saves dir, screen size etc)
• Displays ROMS (which you can boot into)
• Allows you to administer save files (could perhaps be linked with Store saves/ramsaves and emulator settings in database #19 and have the saves stored in a DB?)

[djhworld]

Problems

Go doesn't really have a mature GUI library yet, so might need to consider using a different language? GUI frameworks come with the whole headache of cross platform support and dependencies too.

[djhworld]

Could maybe think about setting up a small HTTP server and having the GUI built with HTML and javascript?

[scottferg]

I thought about doing something similar for my emu. My conclusion was to just man up and do it in OpenGL so that A) I wouldn't have to deal with the pain of the current state of Go GUI libraries, and B) it'd be a bit easier to integrate the UI into the emulator since it's one canvas.

[remogatto]

clingon could be an option too :)

[djhworld]

@scottferg haha at "man up" - yeah, it's probably the safest option, but less pretty and probably more of a headache. although it would negate the need to open a browser I suppose...

@remogatto -> that might be actually be a good compromise, I'll definitely check this out when I pick this item up again