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MAMEWAH's Options Menu
Alcohol:
--- Quote from: Minwah on July 02, 2004, 05:33:45 pm ---Thanks for the input chaps :)
Just to explain a little better on the 'Yes, except games list stuff' option in the poll (& to answer your question Alcohol), what I had in mind was to leave the select emulator / games list stuff, the add/remove games to/from custom list options, and filtering stuff. ie The stuff you (usually) only need to setup once, would be gone.
I thought about making a very simple wizard for setting up the basic options and emulators...that way people can use that or MAMEWAH Setup for more advanced stuff...
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that sounds good to me, as long as it dosent loose the "functionality" of changing emu's and shutting down and esc to windows then the less there is for the kids to wreck the better i guess.. plus if there's a wizard to set all the other settings then the extra menu options are no loss at all..
sound like more good work m8.... maybe i should upgrade :O
:)
Alc
3NF:
--- Quote from: Minwah on July 02, 2004, 01:36:15 pm ---OK I have been thinking about this for a little while...reasons for ditching the menu are:
Some people don't link the way things are layed out, so they don't use it,
Some people like editing CFG files so they don't use it,
Some people like using MAMEWAH Setup, so they don't use it,
Once setup as you like there is no reason to have to set it up again *
The way I feel atm I want to drop the menu, but bear in mind this:
1) *I will first make the CFG files backward-compatible so you never have to start from scratch when a new version comes out.
2) I will keep the menu, for 'fun' stuff like adding games to custom lists, and generating custom lists with filters.
Also I feel the amount of time spent coding the options menu (quite a lot of time actually) is not worth it, since not many people actually use it...the time could be better spent on other things...
Please post what you think :)
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Same post in the other thread, but here it is again ...
I use your frontend all the time and I wouldn't mind if it was gone, especially since I can setup all that in the config file (MameWAH Setup could use some work :D). But hey, don't listen to me .. do what you want :) It's your program. Just make sure it works, and I won't complain :D
stuzza:
I think it'd be ok to remove some of the things from the menus, but if you were to do it I would ask that you make the config files clearer. Basically what I mean is you would need to change anything which used non clear values, ie. numbers, to useful text. Namely these two items:
List Generation Method = 3
Show DOS Box = 2
Change the values to their text descriptions instead ie:
List Generation Method = RomvsListInfo
Show DOS Box = AutoMAME
I often have to check these within the menu to make sure I used the correct number. If you want to keep with the numbers then I'd suggest putting a comment above these lines in the config file and specifying what each possible number option is and what it does.
Oh, and I agree that all the menu items relating to changing emulators, creating lists and assigning keys should be left in!
Minwah:
--- Quote from: stuzza on July 03, 2004, 03:38:56 am ---I think it'd be ok to remove some of the things from the menus, but if you were to do it I would ask that you make the config files clearer. Basically what I mean is you would need to change anything which used non clear values, ie. numbers, to useful text. Namely these two items:
List Generation Method = 3
Show DOS Box = 2
Change the values to their text descriptions instead ie:
List Generation Method = RomvsListInfo
Show DOS Box = AutoMAME
I often have to check these within the menu to make sure I used the correct number. If you want to keep with the numbers then I'd suggest putting a comment above these lines in the config file and specifying what each possible number option is and what it does.
Oh, and I agree that all the menu items relating to changing emulators, creating lists and assigning keys should be left in!
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Yep I will be changing the settings so they are more readable - think mame.ini ;)
The assigning keys part has already gone from the menus....I guess you want that left in as it is not easy to set the keys from the cfg file?? Don't worry, my new input system takes care of it - think mame's ctrlr ini files ;)
TalkingOctopus:
--- Quote ---The assigning keys part has already gone from the menus....I guess you want that left in as it is not easy to set the keys from the cfg file??
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Assigning keys from the config files could be OK, but I think it depends on how it is implemented. Will each key have a code or a name? How would I map a function to the "up arrow." Honesly, I have never really understood the keyboard codes where a key mapping would look something like this:
"UP=085"
However, if you provided a list of all the keyboard codes it would not be as painful.