More Lazarus/Vpinball Issues...

[bdp]

Hey Howard or anyone who knows,

I have the enhanced Vpinball wrapper working now, at least, loading tables and going back to Lazarus with the ESC key.  New questions, though:

I did double click the wrapper and attempting to turn on transparency with the scoreboard as well as centering.  Tested with the Attack from Mars table (my personal favorite).  It did move the scoreboard but it's certainly not centered or transparent, just the same size it used to be and shifted maybe right about 3 inches or so.  Is this all I should expect or is something wrong?

ESC works to exit, but is there a way I can change the exit key to a key of my choice?  I assume there is, and I'm just missing a simple setting somewhere.

Also, a suggestion I have for a future version of Laz -- Could it possibly remember the spot/game you were at the last time you visited each path screen?  I think that would rock.  Especially if it held that setting not only during a session, but even when you stopped and started the software.  It's a pain having to start from the top of a long list every time you cycle.

Thanks Howard, Lazarus really impresses me.

Brad

[)p(]

Transparencys only work on win 2k/xp...

Peter

[bdp]

Right...So the fact that I'm using Win2000 does have me wondering why they're not working.

Brad

[Howard_Casto]

If you are using the built in front-end then the transparency doesn't take effect until after you close it and open it again.  Also it only centers if your refesh rate is 75 mhz or below.  I have no clue why, it seems to be vb not handleing twips to pixel conversions again.  Also it only works on 2000 if you have the latest service packs installed.  Alpha blending wasn't added until later on 2000 as a service pack if I'm not mistaken, as it was added around the same tiem the xp beta came out, which added support to the kernel.  

Exit keys are set in the front-end.  Whatever you have to exit lazarus is what exits vp or any of my wrappers for that matter.  To do this when using the wrapper for other fe's simply tack on a -keyx followed by a single space and the scancode to the key you want to use in the command line.  

[DreamWeb]

I'm having a problem as well, actually.

I can set the size of the pinmame scoreboard to be, say, 80% for both height and width inside vp-launch4.exe.. but it doesn't seem to have any kind of effect at all.  The position has an effect.. but not the size.  I've Saved the config, and set it as the default.

I'm using XP SP2

Any suggestions?