a new Animated Layout for ATOMIC FE

[youki]

A new very nice Animated Layout for Atomic FE is available on my website : http://www.atomicfe.com








You must set the Field "Custom1 Folder" with Atomic Manager to point to your flyers, Cab pictures, or Title Snaps or what you want display in the Custom1.

[papaschtroumpf]

what's the resolution?

I've been mamewah at 800x600 but I would like to move to 1024x768 and I find that there are very few layouts for that resolution. Unfortunately the ones I made for myself for mamewah are also in 800x600 so I'd have to redo them.

[youki]

This one is in 640x480.   But with Atomic you can use directly in 1024x768 or the resolution you want. Atomic Resize layouts to screen resolution.

[papaschtroumpf]

resizing generally looks terrible though.

[papaschtroumpf]

Youki, it would be nice if the screenshots of the layouts on your web site would be clickable to get a larger higher quality picture.

[youki]

Yes, i know.  Unfortunaly i don't have enough time to concentrate my efforts on the web site. 

[papaschtroumpf]

I tried Atomic FE again (last time it wouldn't deal with being installed on drive D: but you fixed that).
Here are some comments in no particular order ) I'm usingthe Zarouk14 layout if it makes a difference)


- When AtomicFE starts, the screen is blank for something like 5s (it just show a "made with JP's engine 1.1" type of screen).

- I also get a rather long blank screen after exiting a game before it returns to the FE after exiting the game. Edit: I found the setting to set this time.

- There doesn't see to be a way to change how the text is aligned in the layout. I'd like to have the text centered rather than right justified, is there a way to do it?

- I noticed that it allows for only one background MP3, I have several. Maybe you could point it to a directory and choose randomly (or sequentially)?

- when it's missing a marquee, it shows "missing marquee". Is there a way to have a default PNG forthe missing marquee? In mamewah, I use a picture of my cab's marquee when it's missing.

- the exit confirmation dialog in the atomic layout and atomic manager apps still says "Annuler" instead of "cancel" in the english version. Same with the save confirmation dialog.

- You might also want to translate "Gestionnaire de configuration" in the title ofthe config app.

- the english doc says "prise en main rapide" for section 5.2.1 in the title and I think it's translated to "General overview" in the actual text.

- the screensaver setup screen say "Radom game" instead of "Random game" (typo)

- when scrolling, is doesn't seem to be possible to "loop around" and go from Z to A (or the number games like 1941), you need to scroll all the way back to the beginning of the alphabet which is painfull with a lot of games, even if using the left and right keys to "jump"

- attract movies don't work for me. I have a zookeep.avi in the directory I point it to for "snap videos" but it's not playing it when I scroll to zookeep and let it sit there. what formats are supported? or is it becauseI also have a zookeep.png in the "snaps" directory?

- how do you created filtered game lists? do you have to do it by hand? The Doc shows a "Game List" tab but it's not present in the actual app. I couldn;t figure out how to make it appear (by the way I don;t like this business of dynamically enabling tabs by checking a box on the main page. Just sow all tabs all the time, except maybe for the credit management one).
Edit: I finally figured out that one, because I can read French and the pic of the game list tab in the manual says "Voir l'onglet "Avances" pour activer la Game list".

- When I tried to create a game list file and save it (by pressing the save button) I got a "Ne peut creer le fichier" error message after being propmpted to overwite the existing atomic.cfg. Is it because I was supposed to save it to another name? I'm still confused about what I'm supposed to do there. Anyway, the erro message is in French.


Obviously I need to go through the manual in more details...

more comments later when I play with it again...

- The summary "Enlevee -> Total Trouve" when you click the "remove category" button is not translated.

- the FE shows only the ROM names, rather than the full names. This seems related to the "metadata" floder but I don't understand how.

[youki]

Thanks for all your comments 

>- When AtomicFE starts, the screen is blank for something like 5s (it just show a "made with JP's engine 1.1" type of screen).

Start time depends on the number of roms you have,