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Can a current FE do this?
SirPoonga:
My next question will be how close can I get to what I want to do?
Minwah:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 26, 2004, 06:53:00 pm ---My next question will be how close can I get to what I want to do?
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I suspect you may get closer with Kymaera / DK, but you'll have to wait for PMF / HC...
Howard_Casto:
Different categories yes.... buttons, no. Buttons have no place on a fe imho. They remind a person of windows. Real arcade games didn't have buttons and thus I don't support them. You can use the button background trick like joe suggested. But I really don't see the point if the buttons aren't working. Also in dk each list can have a totally different skin, so it's quite obvious which list you've selected if you make skins for each one.
Dk supports a single custom list. It does this because of the first point you brought up, being able to navigate via a simple jamma setup. Making several custom lists on the fly without a keyboard would prove difficult. Right now you can browse through all of the regular lists and add/delete it from the favorites by pressing the favorite key over the game.
The only other way I see it done would be through several menus, that let you narrow down your filter choices (again, too windows-like) or a onscreen keyboard (slower than dirt).
I think what you are wanting is more of a point and click interface, which is the exact opposite of what all the fes around here are.
SirPoonga:
Well, button is the best word for it. Ultrastyle you navigate "buttons". Just some graphic around the text of the category names :)
Anyway, I suppose it would be point and click when using a tball, but not when using a joystick. I will end up using the joystick more than the tball, that's why I said that part was optional.
Does that screenshot markup look like windows to you?
the main features I am looking for is simple navigation via a 1 player JAMMA setup. A way of displaying what category/list you are in along with all the other lists available. Most FEs these days you can navigate form list to list, BUT you don't know how many lists there are or what they are even named ahead of time. then ther is, of course, the custom lists which I don't think any FE does the way I want.
You see what these characteristics are, they are a party FE. Something that is simple, all the information is there so my friends don't have to ask, and everyone can make their own list of favorite games :)
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 26, 2004, 07:26:11 pm ---Does that screenshot markup look like windows to you?
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Windows specifically no, but some sort of pc operating system, yes. I mean no offense but when you put buttons on any app it screams "there is a pc in here" mostly because only computers use mice.
Due to countless requests, however, the next version of Dk will support "short cut" lists. Basically you put a special tag in the search string, not unlike favorites and you add the list numbers in the order you'd like them displayed. However, it's not particularly hierarchial, as all of the lists, even the favorites, are on the "top" level.
Your goals in what you want are widely different than what we want. I suggest you give your fe you were working on another try and perhaps start over from scratch if your partner backed out on you. :D