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Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: loadman on September 07, 2010, 11:52:01 pm ---
--- Quote ---Since there is no way to get a text file into the MaLa info construct,
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Possibly I just need to add a new 'Type' Of Hi Scores that reads text files ???
(See Attached Pic)
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That is what I was thinking too - but when that ability wasn't there, I started down this path of converting the text to an image - which I can hook into MaLa
Having a new type in MaLa simplifies things in that is would not require ImageMagick be installed - many of these MAME cabinets are lean machines - ImageMagick is not, lol.
I also wondered if it could be done as a new type of Definable - same idea, a type of Text or Hi Score - but this would also allow that info to be plugged into a layout. I know the current Definables are "images" so that may not be as easy to change.
kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: headkaze on September 08, 2010, 01:59:22 am ---FYI CPWizard can display HiToText output.
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Interesting, thanks for the info. I have not gotten far enough in my build to even look at that kind of software.
loadman:
--- Quote from: kernelpanic on September 08, 2010, 08:16:33 am ---Having a new type in MaLa simplifies things in that is would not require ImageMagick be installed - many of these MAME cabinets are lean machines - ImageMagick is not, lol.
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Yep I will look at that
--- Quote ---I also wondered if it could be done as a new type of Definable - same idea, a type of Text or Hi Score - but this would also allow that info to be plugged into a layout. I know the current Definables are "images" so that may not be as easy to change.
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A bit more work and the need to expand the layout format (which won't be backward compatible)
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kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: loadman on September 08, 2010, 09:08:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: kernelpanic on September 08, 2010, 08:16:33 am ---Having a new type in MaLa simplifies things in that is would not require ImageMagick be installed - many of these MAME cabinets are lean machines - ImageMagick is not, lol.
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Yep I will look at that
--- Quote ---I also wondered if it could be done as a new type of Definable - same idea, a type of Text or Hi Score - but this would also allow that info to be plugged into a layout. I know the current Definables are "images" so that may not be as easy to change.
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A bit more work and the need to expand the layout format (which won't be backward compatible)
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Let's do this the simplest way possible - if it's easier to add "Text" or "Score" type to the MaLa info window, then that's the way to go.
I can do it without any changes to MaLa using the ImageMagick trick. My troubles with that are related to a bad DLL in XP, not to IM. The other problem is that not only is ImageMagick required - ImageMagick requires GhostScript be installed - my rough estimates are that those two installs account for about 50-55 MB of disk space.
Correction: it's more like 85 MB of additional disk space required for ImageMagick and GhostScript
kernelpanic:
I've given up on the ImageMagick idea - 85MB of disk space just convert a simple text file to an image is overkill.
I'll see about writing a routine to convert a text file to an image that can be imported into MaLa.
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