DATABASE SUPPORT, ARTWORK, and a title display

shell/qml/Main.qml

@@ -80,17 +80,6 @@ QtObject {
             anchors.fill: parent
             color: "#181818"
 
-            // top text where a menu dock will probably be eventually
-            Text { 
-                anchors.top: parent.top
-                anchors.topMargin: 30
-                anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
-
-                text: "top placeholder"
-                color: "white"
-                font.pixelSize: 24
-            }
-
             // this is the game carousel. mostly self explanatory, but I wanna point out that the local index for this listView does probably still matter.
             // I got rid of dedicated menu indexing for the dock, but I think it still matters here, for the sake of auto-scrolling
             ListView {
@@ -117,17 +106,47 @@ QtObject {
                 leftMargin: 16
                 rightMargin: 16
 
-                model: 20 // this is a placeholder for now, I don't know how I really want to handle max game carousel size yet. another time.
+                model: gameLibraryModel
                 
                 // provides the smoothing animation for game selection
+                // TODO: tune this to make it as nice as possible !!!
                 NumberAnimation {
                     id: scrollAnimation
                     target: gamesList
                     property: "contentX"
-                    duration: 200
+                    duration: 300
                     easing.type: Easing.OutCubic
                 }
 
+                function selectCentermostGame() {
+                    let viewCenter = gamesList.width / 2
+
+                    let bestItem = null
+                    let bestDistance = Infinity
+
+                    for (let i = 0; i < gamesList.count; i++) {
+                        let item = gamesList.itemAtIndex(i)
+
+                        // I think offscreen items do not exist
+                        if (!item) {
+                            continue
+                        }
+
+                        let itemCenter = item.x - gamesList.contentX + item.width / 2
+
+                        let distance = Math.abs(itemCenter - viewCenter) 
+
+                        if (distance < bestDistance) {
+                            bestDistance = distance
+                            bestItem = item
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    if (bestItem) {
+                        navigationManager.focusItem(bestItem)
+                    }
+                }
+
                 // used to scroll to a new game on the game list
                 function scrollTo(targetX) {
                     if (Math.abs(targetX - gamesList.contentX) < 0.5) {
@@ -220,12 +239,16 @@ QtObject {
                 // after flicking, we re-snap the carousel wherever it landed
                 onMovementEnded: {
                     gamesList.scrollTo(gamesList.snappedContentX(gamesList.contentX))
+                    gamesList.selectCentermostGame()
                 }
 
                 delegate: GameCard {
                     id: gameTile
 
-                    highlighted: navigationManager.currentItem === gameTile 
+                    title: model.title
+                    artwork: model.gridArtwork
+
+                    highlighted: navigationManager.currentItem === gameTile && !gamesList.moving
 
                     function onNavigationFocused() {
                         gamesList.currentIndex = index 
@@ -292,6 +315,54 @@ QtObject {
                     }
                 }
             }
+
+            Text { 
+                id: selectedGameTitle
+
+                text: gamesList.currentItem ? gamesList.currentItem.title : ""
+                opacity: (navigationManager.currentItem === gamesList.currentItem && !gamesList.moving) ? 1 : 0
+
+                Behavior on opacity {
+                    NumberAnimation {
+                        duration: 300
+                        easing.type: Easing.OutCubic
+                    }
+                }
+
+                color: "white"
+                font.pixelSize: 18
+
+                elide: Text.ElideRight
+                horizontalAlignment: Text. AlignHCenter
+
+                width: Math.min(implicitWidth, bottomRoot.width - 32)
+
+                x: { // we wanna make sure that it centers above the game, except when it's at rest and it's close enough to the edge of the screen that it wont fit
+                    if (!gamesList.currentItem) {
+                        return 16
+                    }
+
+                    let cardCenter = gamesList.x + gamesList.currentItem.x - gamesList.contentX + gamesList.currentItem.width / 2
+
+                    let desiredX = cardCenter - width / 2
+
+                    let minimumX = 16
+                    let maximumX = bottomRoot.width - width - 16
+                    return Math.max(minimumX, Math.min(desiredX, maximumX))
+                }
+
+                Behavior on x {
+                    enabled: !gamesList.moving && !scrollAnimation.running
+
+                    NumberAnimation {
+                        duration: 100
+                        easing.type: Easing.OutCubic
+                    }
+                }
+
+                anchors.top: gamesList.bottom
+                anchors.topMargin: 10
+            }
         } 
     }
 }