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Trouble with new MAMEwah 0.97 AND Butler's new MAMEwah setup
Dave Butler:
Any chance you can e mail your CFG files to me and I will try them on my XP machine. To see if it something in the files?
wassabi:
This is exactly how it happens for me.
First I uninstall then delete all mamewah and mamewah setup folders. Then install mamewah, run mamewah to test it (it's fine). Then I install mamewah setup, run setup (it adds layout folders). Then without saving any layout I exit to test mamewah again (it's fine). Go back to mamewah setup, make some changes to my layout, save, and exit. Start mamewah and get the invalid property value error.
This error cannot be gotten rid of till I delete the files and layout directory.
I've tried this on three machines (2 with XP, 1 with 98) and I can reproduce the error.
At first I thought it was a version incompatibility, so I did all my layouts and files manually and it works great. But after reading this thread, you have me thinking mamewah setup was supposed to work.
What's going on?
Dave Butler:
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First I uninstall then delete all mamewah and mamewah setup folders. Then install mamewah, run mamewah to test it (it's fine). Then I install mamewah setup, run setup (it adds layout folders). Then without saving any layout I exit to test mamewah again (it's fine). Go back to mamewah setup, make some changes to my layout, save, and exit. Start mamewah and get the invalid property value error.
What's going on?
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Right I really want to get to bottom of this.
wassabi:
When you say you 'Go back to mamewah setup, make some changes to my layout, save, and exit.' What do you change?
I have had no luck in recreating this error. So it would be helpfull if I knew what you were changing to get this error, then I may be able to track it down.
wassabi:
OK, I think I solved what was happening.
What I had done is downloaded a layout from ScreenshotArchive. There's nothing wrong with the layouts there (they look great), but some are in the wrong format. So when I pointed Mamewah setup to the layout directory, I got the invalid property value error.
The layout I used to reproduce the error was Cabinet with Help Screen by Gndprx / SteveH.
I solved the error by creating a new layout in the MAMEWAH Layout Designer and just using the background Gndprx / SteveH provided.
FoX:
Hmmm....I've been getting this error for awhile now as well.
It is definately something with the layouts and how they are applied. For now I've just given up on custom layouts and have just gone with the standard mamewah layout and everything works fine.
Can you be a little bit more specific about how the format was invalid? Did you just load it into the mamewah layout editor and re-export it?
Thanks!