Feat(Ebony Snaps Manager)

[Rinual]

Added Ebony Snaps Manager. Full guide can be read here for more information on how to use it and what it does. https://github.com/Kizari/Flagrum/wiki/Managing-Snapshots. Adapted from WPF and integrated with permission by Surihix. Attribution and license information have also been added.

can see the original code here . Only changes I made to the original code were all the wpf changes needed to work with blazor and a few QOL additions all within EbonySnapsManager.razor

[Kizari]

This is brilliant (both the work from you, and the original work from Suri). You've implemented the application well into Flagrum's general look and feel—my only concern is that I feel that it needs some tweaks to be integrated into Flagrum's style of workflow properly.

This feels like it would be a good fit in the Asset Explorer, in the file system view, as an option for the file types that are relevant to this tooling.

So that we're not losing the convenience of the autodiscovery of the snapshot folder, we could have something like the "Quick Access" section that Windows' file explorer has with noteworthy folders such as the saves and snapshots folders (perhaps even give the user the ability to add to and/or alter these).

Snaps could be shown in the preview pane when clicked, and have right-click options for export much like BTEX and other proprietary file types. Types with more complex needs could still have additional UI added to the preview pane, or have a special right-click option that brings up the necessary UI in a popup menu (similar to the bulk export feature).

To avoid it being overlooked due to not many people using File System view or even knowing about it since it's not the default view, we could bring attention to it with an update popup, or consider something like onboarding tooltips if that might be preferable.

I would like to know how you feel about this before I invest the time into adding onto this PR though. Since you've clearly invested a lot of time into this, I don't want to make any changes you're not happy with.

[Rinual]

Don’t think it would work that well in asset explorer view, and likely become a lot more confusing to people. There may be another page of features you are not seeing under the snap tools tab. This is a lot more than viewing snaps, and requires integration with selecting save files, snapshot link files and image directories for custom snapshots etc…

But things like removing blank snaps, mass adding folders to save files, encrypting and decrypting saves etc… would all need enough UI elements that it seems cleaner just to have a snap manager section, in addition to just making snapshots much more easily found by average users as they become integrated into a main tab of the main window instead of needing to be navigated to.

On top of that, another advantage since life’s been busy and you arent actively doing FFXV stuff, is this is fully ready and tested and doesn’t require any new coding or implementation on your part. So nice and easy

[Rinual]

https://github.com/Kizari/Flagrum/wiki/Managing-Snapshots if you were curious, though I'm sure its all pretty self explanatory for you. (Edit: realize this link was in the first post... my bad)

But ya, thought it fit well with the concept of an "all-in-one solution for modders, artists, and players of Final Fantasy XV" and the swiss army knife of FFXV tools. As snapshot viewing is one of the tools most commonly still used outside of Flagrum. The asset explorer route was the original PR request from last year, this seemed like a good opportunity to expand Flagrum in a way that still was stylistically similar, but offered a new suite of tools and having something made by the FFXV community for Flagrum, instead of just relying on you and what you have time for.

Also remembered, there would be another key element that is designed to help users, beyond having its own pop-up info section with tips, there are custom instructions that provide feedback and advice. ie:

[Rinual]

Just checking back on this to see if you had any other questions, needed more info, or anything else for this. Hope all is well

[Rinual]

Happy new years! Hoping life lets up and is kinder to you this year. Figured I'd do another inquiry here as I assume even if you ever did have time, this has long fell of the radar.