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Lazarus: Tons of Problems - Help!
bdp:
Well I finally took the time to sit down, read the docs and configure Lazarus, and I'm having a TON of problems.
I'm on a Windows 2000 machine. Using default skin.
First off - The configuration box. Sometimes it shows up, sometimes not. Almost never just by pressing TAB. Sometimes I press TAB and then ESC to get it to show. Sometimes I press TAB and move the mouse and click and then it shows. Sometimes I press TAB and it's invisible, and I move the arrows and press select and stuff happens (even though the menu wasn't there). So that's the first really annoying bug.
Second, it seems only the first entry in dirs.ini is showing. Whatever I put first works. Change path will not work, I can only view the first path I list in dirs.ini. I am 99% sure the file itself is correct. Maybe I missed something.
Finally, the first entry with Mame worked, but when I put Gens in there, it didn't find my roms at all. I did create the cfg file as well. But no roms were found.
Howard (or someone else who experienced this), here are my files, maybe you can see something wrong:
[dirs.ini]
roms=d:\mame\roms\;d:\genesis\roms\
Primary Artwork Dir=d:\mame\
Additional AW Dirs=
[startvd]
[path]
logo=sega.gif
caption=Sega Genesis
useclones=1
searchstrings:5=Genesis
[/path]
[path]
logo=mame.gif
caption=Newest Games
useclones=1
searchstrings:7=.61
[/path]
[path]
logo=mame.gif
caption=MAME (All)
useclones=1
searchstrings:5=MAME
[/path]
[/startvd]
---
[genesis.cfg]
extension=.zip
path=d:\genesis\
exe=wgens.exe
send rom path=1
send exit keys=0
command line options;
--BDP
If these are right, I'm stumped. I have tried 2.0 and the 2.3 beta.
Minwah:
I find that when I press TAB the items in the menu don't show up (apart from the selected item). This is on a Win98 machine. In fairness I haven't had time to play around a lot to try and fix it - I have sorted the option in the config which applies to graphics in XP tho.
bdp:
I don't see any menu or text at all (even the selected item).
Howard, also I did see your earlier post about the menu not coming up right away when you start. I can't get the menu to come up at all, even if I wait, or I've been in there a while and try to bring the menu up again (after playing a game, for example). There's definitely a bug there with the menu and the video. Could be a combination of program, OS (Win2k), and driver.
Like I said, I can live with that really, though it is a bug for sure, the other problems I mentioned above are much more annoying.
By the way, I tried to import a different font in (still using your skin) and I'm not having any luck. Does that need to be an installed font or can it just be a .ttf file I drop into the lazarus directory? This was after all the other problems of course, the problems listed above did happen with the default Lazarus font. I was just curious if there's anything special I need to do to change that font aside from changing its title in the skin.ini file.
)p(:
did you refresh your masterlist after adding genesis and adding the filter for it?
peter
bdp:
Indeed I did -- I ran both the rescan and the refresh and still got nada. So something's up. And the paths I have in those files are definitely full of roms (zipped).
I wonder what's wrong? I'm still fuzzy on the whole searchstrings:5=genesis thing. Is that where I define what the name of the .cfg file is? I'm having trouble making the connection between Lazarus and that cfg. How does lazarus know what .cfg file to look for?
By the way, even with just MAME (new) and MAME (all) in my dirs.ini, the switch paths option STILL would not work. I expected to be able to switch between 2 lists, mame .61 and mame (all) and it would come up with only the .61 list and allow no switching. Gotta be a bug.
Brad