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maraxle:

I've had a couple of requests for the code, but it's not something I'd like to give out.  It is very sloppy as it was written in about 10 minutes, and rather embarrassing...  

Anyway, what the VB code is doing is a simple exercise in file I/O, so it shouldn't be too tough to duplicate (and improve) without the source.  It just gathers file names from a directory, compares them to the XML file to find the section in the file that corresponds to that rom, and prints it out to another file (with LCD control codes added) - nothing magical about it.  Copy the control codes from one of the text files generated by the example program and you're good to go.

bioart:

That's too bad that you dont want to give the code :)  I was hoping to build on it and make it work with my stuff (giving it back to the community afterwards, of course :))

Anyways,  The link to the executable does not work, I'd love to at least be able to run that to figure out the format for the text files...

Thanks!

Art

Rawker:

i just wanted to bump this thread and say thanks to maraxle for the inspiration, like everyone else i'm planning on adding a lcd screen to my cab now.

Aceldamor:



--- Quote ---  I'll make a more customizable version of the program soon so you can do whatever you like.

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Marlaxle...just curious to know if you were still planning on doing this?

I'm picking up my Screens on Wed. and if not i'll have to see if I can do it myself or recruit some resourses I have..

maraxle:


--- Quote from: Aceldamor on April 19, 2004, 06:43:46 pm ---

--- Quote ---  I'll make a more customizable version of the program soon so you can do whatever you like.

--- End quote ---

Marlaxle...just curious to know if you were still planning on doing this?

I'm picking up my Screens on Wed. and if not i'll have to see if I can do it myself or recruit some resourses I have..

--- End quote ---
Well, since I said I would do it, I just put a more flexible version out there at the same URL.  Basically there's little text fields where you can change the header, what it says when it's a trackball game, and what it says when the button label can't be found in controls.dat.  There's a checkbox that lets you choose whether or not to have it scroll long titles automatically.  Finally, there's some radio buttons that let you choose from some different button label styles (Button 1-6:, Button A-F:, 1-6:, A-F:, or no label).  

Unfortunately, it's still got the bugs from the original version (only labels 6 buttons, if you try to exit before it's done it crashes, if you don't fill in all the inputs it doesn't work and doesn't tell you why, etc).  As I'm kind of taking a break from programming right now (it's not fun to me anymore - this program was only written out of necessity), I'm not planning any further updates at this time.

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