[RELEASE] PSP Installer 1.0!

[spike_132000]

Good Evening Guys, Spike_132000 here to bring you.... VERSION 1.0 OF PSPINSTALLER!!!!



This application basically allows you to download games, applications, theme's and save games automatically onto the PSP

Changes in V1.0

+Added: Categories, now everything is split into 4 categories, Games, Applications, Theme's and Savegames
=Fixed: If you choose a blank option on the browse page, it will initiate your wlan but then tell you it's unable to download a blank application
=Unfixable: Deletion of Zip file's. There's a bug in PGELua that prevents zip files to be closed, so since there still classed as open and in use, they can't be deleted.
EDIT:
=Fixed: When updating database, current database version text changed to latest database version text when it should have stayed at current database version text... it's hard to explain.. anyway it's fixed

WE NEED YOUR GAMES,APPLICATIONS,THEME' S and SAVEGAMES!!!

Download : !! SEE BELOW !!

Install : Delete previous version then Re-Copy to GAME5XX

Cred :

Spike_132000 - Code
User1690 - Concept
Joomla - Graphics

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

Hey guys, just a quick update

the change source option on the front screen has now been changed to....

"Download Latest Version"



this means that you can now download the latest version of PSPInstaller from within the application itself

After downloading and installing like any other app, it will state that the app needs to be restarted, if you press start, the app will automatically close down back to the XMB, when you relaunch it, it will show the app as being updated woop woop

also added version numbers to first page

Try it out with this download link

http://in.rsparrow.co.uk/pspinstallerv1.rar

[cmbeke]

nice job

[indrora]

So here are my meager suggestions:

• Dont limit yourself to applications, games, savegames and themes. What about plugins?
• The confirmed bug in PGE Lua of it not closing the file for the Zip is a pain in the ass... And there is proabably a work around somewhere.
• The "DB.LUA" is still really... not expandable.

Db.lua should look more like a proper database than static categories. Here's my take on it:

db={

      {

          { name="MyApp", author="The Architect", filename="mapp01.zip" },

          (Continue on like this)

       },

       { 

           {name="Joes Mario Clone", author="Joe Shmoe", filename="joemario.zip" }

           (etc, etc)

       },

       {

           { name="Snes9xTYL", author="YoYoFR and Laxer", filename="snes9xtyl_fat.z  ip"}

        }

 }

db_names = {"Applications", "Games (General)", "Games (Emulators)"}

Not only this way can you have multiple sources, but you have more flexibility.

[spike_132000]

db={

      {

          { name="MyApp", author="The Architect", filename="mapp01.zip" },

          (Continue on like this)

       },

       { 

           {name="Joes Mario Clone", author="Joe Shmoe", filename="joemario.zip" }

           (etc, etc)

       },

       {

           { name="Snes9xTYL", author="YoYoFR and Laxer", filename="snes9xtyl_fat.z  ip"}

        }

 }

db_names = {"Applications", "Games (General)", "Games (Emulators)"}

I've never seen an array in lua layed out like that, how would I call it in the program?

[CKNICK]

..

[indrora]

Like any other array? Lua doesnt care about newlines and whitespace.

Also, zip files should be a RootFS -- that way applications like iRShell and whatnot can be distributed.
That, and you may want to have a "Debian-Like" package script -- where you have this sort of format:

(zip root)

• install.lua
• fs.zip
  
  • PSP
    
    • GAME
    • COMMON (All else fails, some packages can use this as a "control" area)
    • Etc...
  • SEPlugins
  • etc...

This allows for say PSPDisp (Which would need to add itself to the vsh.txt file under ms0:/seplugins/) or iRShell (Which assumes that its being extracted to ms0:/)

Install.lua would define a function called "app_install()" which would give the author some control over any extraneous settings that had to be handled.

[cmbeke]

you could do instead of

09 Games by Shaqdarcy
09 Games by Shaqdarcy CXMB Theme for 5.00M33
THEME

you could do this

09 Games
     by Shaqdarcy
5.00M33

you dont need the GAME or THEME at the bottom, you could instead put the fw need to run it

[indrora]

Here's how APT (Debian's package management tool, with super cow powers) does it:

All packages are stored in an SQlite database, or at least their description.
Packages can state what they depend on (for example, "fw-5.50" might be a dependency of "cxmb500" which is a dependancy of "blackwings550gen")

Here's what I'd suggest:

-- this is Lua
db={
{ name="cxmb550gen", depends="fw550", cat="plugins", desc="CustomXMB plugin for 550GEN" }, -- this automatically maps to "cxmb500gen.zip" on the webserver.
{ name="masterboy", depends="cfw", cat="Emulators", desc="Simple SMS and GB/GBC emulator" }, -- Note here that "cfw" is anything >3.00OE.
{name="timebaby", depends="hw_fat,ofw", cat="Applications" desc="Time clock and MP3 player. For Fats only." } -- This depends on hardware being PSP_HW_FAT and firmware being 1.50. (Its KXploited)

}

-- this is within something like conf.lua or "installedb.lua"
PSP_FAT=1
PSP_HW_SLIM=2
PSP_HW_BRITE=3
PSP_HW_GO=4 -- Just so that we *can* have that.

installed={"cfw","fw550","masterboy"}
harware_is=PSP_HW_SLIM

Sound reasonable enough?

[soulburn]

Nice idea. You should definitly add some plugins too.

I do not know much about programming, however, if you can't delete zip file, because its open, simply don't. Delete it when program is lunched again instead. I guess it's easy to log all the downloaded files, and then delete them using this log information. If deleting during program start will cause too much slowdown, You can add a button "delete temporary files", to do it manualy. It should delete all the logged zips, excluding those just downloaded (still open).

And is this really necessary to initiate wlan every time when I want download something? It's annoying, mayby one initialization, and then keeping connetion alive would be better?

[arcadekidflo]

Only Snake ?

[spike_132000]

I Like your idea indrora, will look into it

we init WLAN everytime due to power, uses more if it's on all the time, but I can make a toggle quite easily, and also the delete zip thing could be done on startup :) no point having the "delete temp files" button unless you close the app, reopen it then press it.

[indrora]

Well you can have a folder in the app dir that contains the downloaded files. when the app comes back it looks for any temporary files that are there and says "I'm cleaning up from last time... bear with me!" and have a little progress dialog.
Also, I dont know how to determine the version the machine is running on. I can only assume you can look at particular versions of various files in flash0:/ (such as vshmain.prx, or wlan or some such)

~OR~

you have a dialog that when something depends on 'cfw' or 'fw550' you ask "Do you have FW 5.50?" or "Do you have FW1.5?"

[Fetts]

a way you could find out somebody's firmware is for the app to look in f0:/vsh/etc/version.txt

[zidapi]

The link is dead for me

[manaxed]

Hey urm.. i've kinda edited the your program slightly and based it more on a theme downloader.... I've added more functionalty etc. As in allowing you to add Theme repositories. Basically i've made it like Cydia for the iPhone...

Well, i just wanted your approval to release this. I'd give you fulll credit for the backbone of program.


-Manaxed