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Not a priority

Use the tools "hidden" in the preset file to make an interface for a plandomizer, maybe with the help of maps to place items and hints ...

Currently, the initial config asks you to fill those params :

Five entries seems a bit tedious to fill, especially when the common use case is very simple :

1. User downloads Randstalker, extracts it to a folder
2. User downloads GUI, extracts it to a folder
3. User launches GUI

From there, the user only needs to specify 3 things for the app to work:

• the location of the randstalker directory
• the input rom location
• the output roms folder (pre-filled with "./seeds/" so that seeds are generated inside a GUI subfolder)

Preset folder?

People won't fiddle manually with preset files (or very rarely), so they don't need to know where they are stored, as long as it works.
Since default presets needs to be included and we don't want to put that kind of responsability on the GUI, we'll just use a subfolder of randstalker called "presets".
Either we leave the option to change this, in which case we need some kind of auto-filled entry (which concatenates "/presets/" to the provided randstalker folder), OR we just remove this option completely and people will learn that their presets are in a well-named randstalker subfolder.

Personal settings folder?

Personal settings are just a way to store the most common personal settings in a convenient file so that people don't have to change those everytime. I think it needs to be handled as a file, rather than a folder of various personal settings. But more importantly, it must not matter how it is stored for the player, but it needs to be easily accessed from the front page to switch quickly on-the-go.

The most obvious setting to check when editing presets is the "Items distribution" as if the total count of items is not correct, the Randstalker will not generate a seed.

Try to use validation rules for simple settings, may be difficult for settings like the one above.

Method TBD

Preset selector is currently shown as such :

This has, in my opinion, several issues :

• The root folder node should not be displayed. Folder contents should be shown as root nodes
• Only ".json" file nodes should be displayed (clicking any other kind of file crashes anyway)
• Make it larger, as names are pretty much not readable fully currently

There are other, more subjective improvements that could be done:

• Remove the ".json" extension to the tree nodes. We are not displaying files, we are displaying presets.

Adding a theme selector in the "Options" header, maybe just for switching between light and dark theme at first.

If you are motivated, you can add a new window to fully customize a theme (Check softwares like Notepad++ for inspiration), but this is purely bonus