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mamewah broadcast selected game to all windows
eightbit:
Is there a way in mamewah to "broadcast selected game to all windows" like you can in mame32? A friend of mine wrote a program to catch the broadcast and to change the screen on another computer (a laptop) to show artwork. We're in the design stage of the laptop screen and want it to show the marquee, a screen shot and eventually controls.dat information. If broadcast isn't builtin is there some other way to execute something when a game is launched?
Minwah:
Sorry, I have no idea what the broadcast thing does, so I guess there isn't a way to do it.
How about using a batch file instead of the emulator exe?
eightbit:
Of course the simple answer, I didn't think of that. We can do just about anything we want then. The only disadvantage is that it wouldn't change the laptop untill the game was selected. With mame32 it broadcasts the game when you select it in the list. So as you scroll through the list the laptop changes with whatever game is highlighted.
Still very cool, I love Mamewah, Thanks MinWAH!
What is mamewah written in and is the source open?
Minwah:
--- Quote from: eightbit on October 28, 2003, 08:38:11 am ---Of course the simple answer, I didn't think of that. We can do just about anything we want then. The only disadvantage is that it wouldn't change the laptop untill the game was selected. With mame32 it broadcasts the game when you select it in the list. So as you scroll through the list the laptop changes with whatever game is highlighted.
Still very cool, I love Mamewah, Thanks MinWAH!
What is mamewah written in and is the source open?
--- End quote ---
I see, I'm not sure how to do that although I could add it to my list of stuff to do...your project sounds pretty cool :)
MW is written in VB6, and atm is not open source...
Valence:
Minwah: Here's a pretty good way The MB InterProcess Control. But it does limit the choices of how the other side would receive the messages. But it is real easy. Here's an article on another way. It includes source code. Little bit more work but it is also fairly easy.
Eightbit: I'm using a activeX called autoit. But I use if for getting the mame screen title but once it is already running. So it wouldn't do exactly what you want it to.
Minwah: I would also really appreciate if you implemented something like this. It would help me out a bunch.
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