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Software problems or glitches after adding rotation?
BadMouth:
I gave up on using the parallel port in Vista64 and moved on to a usb pololu motor driver/controller.
Had it swapped in and rotation working in a couple hours.
I'm using Mala with the Startcom plugin and a batch file (copied from TopJimmyCooks) to trigger rotation via pololu command lines.
I'm having a couple issues and wondered if anyone else has had them and found a solution.
First-
The rotation is working fine, but when launching a game in MAME after rotating the screen, MAME will work normally for about 5 seconds, then shrink down to a small title bar in the upper left corner of the desktop. I can still hear it, but Mala is also active and playing video snaps.
The only way to fix things is to bring up task manager and kill the proccess (switching to MAME does not bring it back).
I think MAME, startcom, & my batch file are tripping over each other at some point, but if I have startcom not launch the game until after rotation, it still happens.
It only happens with MAME, not other emulators. I'm using SGT's all-in-one list method where Mala is pointed to a batch file to launch the appropriate emulator rather than pointed to mame.exe. I guess that's another batch file executing at the same time as the others. ;D
Having Startcom rotate Mala after the game exits instead of before it launches, fixes the issue, but I'd rather have it rotate before the game launches, while everything is hidden behind a splash screen (which I haven't added yet).
Strange thing is that I could have sworn it wasn't doing this before I installed a new layout that had both horizontal & vertical layouts included.
EDIT: It's possible that I changed some setting related to layout resolution or re-ordering the layout. Hmmmm...will have to experiment with that when I get home.
Second-
I copied TopJimmyCooks batch file to rotate the screen back to horizontal when Mala exits, but Mala is still in the vertical layout next time it is started.
Is there a way to make Mala start in the horizontal layout every time?
I'm loving having a big monitor for both directions.
Thanks to all who made this a possibility. :cheers:
I'd be interested in hearing about any other problems that have crept up and what you did to overcome them.
BadMouth:
Did some testing regarding my first issue. Re-ordering the layout and changing the desktop resolution options in Mala had no effect.
I pointed Startcom to a dummy bat file to see if it was my rotation bat;made no difference.
I put a long delay in my bat file that launches MAME. MAME stayed full screen and worked, but that gave me time to notice something else....
When Startcom Rotates the Mala layout, the video snap starts playing again and continues to play while MAME is running.
I disabled the video snaps and the problem went away.
DaOld Man:
64 bit is a little strange as far as using Mrotate, BUT... I have used it on my new 64 bit Win 7 with no apparent issues.
However I did find that I must place inpout.dll in the same folder as mrotate.
Im not sure what you have going on with Mala. I will need to simulate your setup and see what i can find.
On a related note:
I could not use an old DOS checkbook program with 64 bit Win7. I have been using this program for several years and it does what i need, so I was disappointed to find i may have to finally SC it after 20 years, BUT.. I found a very neat little program that runs dos on 64 bit systems, its called DosBox.
Im thinking that using dosbox, we may be able to run my very first version of mrotate for dos, called drotate, in 64 bit.
But I have not tried it yet, so its just a pipe dream right now.
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on November 06, 2012, 02:14:46 am ---Im not sure what you have going on with Mala. I will need to simulate your setup and see what i can find.
--- End quote ---
It's using mp4 video snaps from emumovies with Mala v1.745 (WIP).
Problem is caused by the video player restarting the video when Startcom rotates Mala before the game.
I'm not sure if anyone else is using video snaps with their rotating setup?
Mala did get a new video player, so maybe it's not an issue with the old version of Mala and avi snaps?
I have it set to rotate after the game exits and that works fine, but you can see Mala facing the wrong direction for a bit before it is rotated.
DaOld Man:
Have you tried a previous version of mala?
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