Main > Software Forum
HTML5 FrontEnd
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: arximidis ---The Background must be a picture with the name background.gif inside img directory. You can't have background picture and starfield both.
--- End quote ---
It is, I used the one you included. I didn't click both, only one at a time to see which would work. Dunno, sorry - not much to go on but as I said I'll start fiddling with it and see if I can get it working.
Le Chuck:
I'll keep updating this as I run into issues:
Games don't launch in this version. Using the same settings I used yesterday. Emu zooms then I'm just left with a starfield and music playing. FE does wait and does not return to carousel.
Tried EXEs, BATS, rom lists, and running roms directly. Rom lists will not populate.
If emu is not setup you get the same behavior after notification that emu is not setup - hang. Tried without the starfield on just the white background. Same behavior.
If browser size is changed to 1024x768 and zoom is selected everything is good but the star background. That is off center considerably. If center to main window is checked there is no change. Still off center. Same behavior only less off center at 800x600. Background only centered at 640x480
Zoom works awesome - controls look good and it was very easy to get everything centered and looking great. I hope the other issues are easy fixes.
arximidis:
did you edit the files?
I don' t understand.
I just tested it on an other machine and it works.
If you don't setup the emulators, will hang (I will put some error trapping in next release).
You must edit the settings.ini of the browser too (allowed programs section).
This is what i do for example to run an sigle exe file
settings.ini
[ALLOWED PROGRAMS]
COMMODORE64=C:/Files/Programmer's Notepad/pn.exe
and to settings.ini inside COMMODORE64 directory
ROM = {EXE}
ROMPATH =
COMMAND =
ROMLIST =
ROMEXT =
WAIT = yes
Note: The directory of the emulator must have the same name with the entry in settings.ini.
Le Chuck:
I did exactly that, made sure I edited both setting.ini the one in the emu folder that is named the same as what is listed in "allowed programs". I'm sure it's frustrating on your end and I'm sorry it's not working but I'm sure I'm following the right protocols.
Yesterday's version still works. Was there a syntax change between the versions?
I rar'd the whole program and am uploading it to my dropbox so you can take a look at it if you want. The address is the same as the one I gave you previously. It's up now.
arximidis:
If you notice in the video, there is a general problem with gif files (that is way in not loading the background picture).
It doesn't even loading the hourglass.gif, when you select the emulator
This made me suspicious and then when I downloaded the rar file you uploaded, I was confirmed
When you copied the new version, you did copy the qt libraries to the same folder. However you forgot to copy the directory imageformats. Inside there are libraries that allow the program to load pictures (gif etc). You must also copy this directory to the same folder where the exe is
Here is the link of the shared libraries. You will notice that there is a folder imageformats inside. This folder must also be copied to the same directory with HTMLFrontEnd.exe
http://users.ntua.gr/dpiperid/MyWebPage/Catalog/games/QT4libs.zip
EDIT:
Just tested your version on a Windows 7 machine
It works everytime
These are the settings to load for example an exe program (without parameters, like you do when loading bat files)
settings.ini (of browser)
SW=C:/Windows/notepad.exe
settings.ini (of emulator)
ROM = {EXE}
ROMPATH =
COMMAND =
ROMLIST =
ROMEXT =
WAIT = yes
If you want to pass a specific rom as parameter, you must write the following:
ROM = {EXE}
ROMPATH = C:/Users/dpepe/Desktop/scratchemails.txt
COMMAND = {rom}
ROMLIST =
ROMEXT =
WAIT = yes
Change the paths accordingly
However, I noticed some issues, due to the fact you are using too large thumbnails for the carousel.
The program does something weird in order to get keyboard focus and it will be a problem, if you are using too large thumbnails.
Actually the problem is in the upper left corner, where the browser is clicking fast with the mouse to take the keyboard focus. If a link is there (like the edges of the thumbnail), then it will be selected.
I' ll see what I can do for that
I will upload a new version v3.0 of the browser soon, to fix some issues, including that
Also I noticed some issues with the starfield effect whe you enable the zoom to fit or the center to window settings