Game List: Added Ability to Manually Edit Play Time

[Shaheen2323]

Description of Changes

Added the option/ability to manually edit play time if needed in non Big Picture Mode (Qt).

Rationale behind Changes

If a user accidentally resets their play time, or if they would like to retain their play time on different devices (e.g., a desktop and a handheld PC), they can now manually edit the play time (Resolves #13007).

Suggested Testing Steps

• I've already tried almost a hundred different combinations (hours, minutes, seconds), as well as resetting the play time first and/or after editing.
• I've tried some edge cases (invalid input (negative, characters, etc.), min and max, etc.)
• I've tried canceling out at different stages (editing hours, minutes, or seconds).
• Try editing playtime.dat before, after, and at the same time as manually editing in the app, to see if anything breaks. I couldn't find any issues.
• Try editing on different days, and see if "Last Played" breaks.

Did you use AI to help find, test, or implement this issue or feature?

No.

I can try to add this feature to the Big Picture Mode (FSUI) as well, but I had a bit of trouble wrapping my head around getting things to work with ImGui, as I don't have any experience with it. If you would like me to try some more, let me know, but if someone else wants to do it, feel free to do so.

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[refractionpcsx2]

Could this not all be done in the same dialogue instead of having 3 separate ones? It seems a little cumbersome to have to go through so many different dialogues, you could easily put hours, minutes and seconds next to each other and reference them separately.

[Shaheen2323]

Could this not all be done in the same dialogue instead of having 3 separate ones? It seems a little cumbersome to have to go through so many different dialogues, you could easily put hours, minutes and seconds next to each other and reference them separately.

I agree with you on that. The reason I did three separate dialogues is that it was the easiest way to implement this feature while forcing valid input (i.e., ensuring only valid inputs come in). I'll work on it a bit more to see if I can come up with a better solution. One way I'm thinking is to take a single string input and parse it into separate parts after (into hours, minutes, and seconds), and another way is to write a custom dialogue. If you have any suggestions or ideas, let me know.

[Calinou]

To be fair, editing the number of seconds of playtime is probably not needed either. We can reset the existing seconds component of the playtime to 0 when it's edited, and only ask for hours and minutes.

If you want to simplify things further, you could only expose an hours field but allow floating-point values, so that minutes can be specified like 6.5 for 6 hours and 30 minutes. Most game launchers like Steam already display playtime in this fashion.

[Shaheen2323]

To be fair, editing the number of seconds of playtime is probably not needed either. We can reset the existing seconds component of the playtime to 0 when it's edited, and only ask for hours and minutes.

If you want to simplify things further, you could only expose an hours field but allow floating-point values, so that minutes can be specified like 6.5 for 6 hours and 30 minutes. Most game launchers like Steam already display playtime in this fashion.

That's actually a great solution. I'll work on it once I get the chance.