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Info Window for Hi Score (HiToText)
loadman:
--- Quote from: kernelpanic on September 10, 2010, 10:21:46 am ---
--- Quote from: loadman on September 10, 2010, 10:15:44 am ---Did you reallocate the keys?
By default left and right will be the same
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:facepalm
yeah sorry, that fixes that - I feel so DOH
I included some .txt files that are made by capturing the hiToText output when it processes the .hi file
Here's a zip file with some random .hi files in it
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He He.. I have changed the defaults for next version. Now 'Left' is 'blank' and 'right' is 'space'. ;D
--- Quote ---What I notice is that every time I do that, the list of "Current Pages" grows - as shown in Options | GUI | Info Window - I now have three sets of "Recommended Games, Controls, History, Snap, Marquee, Control Panel, etc. If I quit MaLa, the list goes back to a singleton for each page. This may not be a problem, just wanted to make you aware.
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A minor bug there. It does not seem to effect functionality though.
--- Quote ---here is a preliminary version of my guide to get hi scores displayed via the MaLa info window. This may change depending on how Loadman implements the remaining parts and is currently based on the .txt files being read from the mame/hi folder.
Step #4:
make one change in MaLa to use this MAME.BAT file instead of the MAME.EXE file
See mala-options-1.png attached
NOTE: again, these are my folder paths, yours may be different, please adjust accordingly
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My Knee Jerk reaction is I am not supportive (Step#4) of putting batch files in the mame exe section.
I think I can either
1) Write a basic plug-in that calls the batch file on MaLa exit
2) Write a sexy plugin that does all this with Config gui for users to set path
3) Add section in options-gui-game start/quit to optionally call a batch file on game exit. I guess it would just call at reduced bat like:
--- Code: --- cd c:\emulators\programs\mame\hi
hitotext -r %1 > %1.txt
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4) Build most of this into MaLa so you just need to aquire hittotext then set a path to it and the text files it produces
What do you all think/prefer ?
While I wait on your feedback I might fiddle with mala beta to read text files from a subfolder in mala called hi so we can settle display format issues.
kernelpanic:
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--- Quote ---What I notice is that every time I do that, the list of "Current Pages" grows - as shown in Options | GUI | Info Window - I now have three sets of "Recommended Games, Controls, History, Snap, Marquee, Control Panel, etc. If I quit MaLa, the list goes back to a singleton for each page. This may not be a problem, just wanted to make you aware.
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A minor bug there. It does not seem to effect functionality though.
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Agreed - it had no effect, was just odd
loadman:
--- Quote ---here are 2 files that I created using hiToText
dorunrun is the largest one I've found so far - the pacman one is shown as some games are not supported in the XML file and generated this type of txt file
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Can you send me some more so I can see variation please.
kernelpanic:
--- Quote from: loadman on September 10, 2010, 08:46:30 pm ---
--- Quote ---here are 2 files that I created using hiToText
dorunrun is the largest one I've found so far - the pacman one is shown as some games are not supported in the XML file and generated this type of txt file
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Can you send me some more so I can see variation please.
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do you want the .txt files after processing through hiToText?
or do you want the .hi files before processing through hiToText?
loadman:
--- Quote from: kernelpanic on September 10, 2010, 09:07:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: loadman on September 10, 2010, 08:46:30 pm ---
--- Quote ---here are 2 files that I created using hiToText
dorunrun is the largest one I've found so far - the pacman one is shown as some games are not supported in the XML file and generated this type of txt file
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Can you send me some more so I can see variation please.
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do you want the .txt files after processing through hiToText?
or do you want the .hi files before processing through hiToText?
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after processing please as that is what MaLa will load right?
And please get a avitar, your naked! :laugh2:
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