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mahuti:

--- Quote ---Johnny5 will figure out whether you use the Tab key or set up .xml (cfg) files
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Really? Sweet. Hm. I didn't notice that before. I'll have to look into that. I've configured about a bizillion games with the tab key... it'd be great to just be able to reuse that.

Thanks for the link. Sorry to hijack your thread. Since there's already a good resource, I agree... it's useless to add more stuff to your controller page.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: mahuti on September 20, 2005, 02:54:04 pm ---
--- Quote ---Johnny5 will figure out whether you use the Tab key or set up .xml (cfg) files
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Really? Sweet. Hm. I didn't notice that before. I'll have to look into that. I've configured about a bizillion games with the tab key... it'd be great to just be able to reuse that.

Thanks for the link. Sorry to hijack your thread. Since there's already a good resource, I agree... it's useless to add more stuff to your controller page.

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The parse for tab keys settings was added to the latest beta, not the one currently on Lazarus.

From my "coming soon" setup page:

--- Quote ---DEFAULT INSTALLATION AND TESTING

Download Johnny5 from http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus/. You can also find the MAME controller file conversion info here.  Now get the latest (as of 18Sep05) version of the viewer from this message: http://fe.donkeyfly.com/forum/index.php?topic=119.msg1007#msg1007.  Delete or rename the current C:\johnny\johnny5.exe, download Johnny5.txt, place in the C:\johnny folder, and rename as johnny5.exe.

Now, double-click on C:\johnny\Johnny5.exe.  It should give you an Introduction Window and put you on the options screen, but if not, go to  "Options - Viewer".  Do NOT   change anything except "Path to MAME", "MAME exe" and "controller config" file in the following formats:

C:\mame\
mame.exe
XArcade (Example, or leave blank)

I highly recommend leaving the controller config tab blank.  Johnny5 now does a very thorough job of searching your controller files and should find them whether you tell it where they are or not.

NOTE: You can get serious errors (like every game using the mylayout.jpg background) if you change any of the other settings on this window.  I am posting the contents of my C:\johnny\options.cfg file below in case your's get messed up and you want to get it back:

 0
 0
c:\mame\
mame.exe

 1
 1
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0
27
17

If you are using WinXP or Win2K (or NT?), you should be set up now.  Right-click on the c:\johnny folder, select "Command Prompt Here", and type "Johnny5 1942" or "Johnny5 pacman" and Enter in the command window.  The screen should briefly go black and then it should show the control panel above with your selected key assignments labeled by function (Remember, Howard re-mapped L Alt, so Button 2 might not show up correctly).

If you tried the above under Win98SE (or ME?), you will likely see a solid black screen indefinitely, however; you can exit it by pressing Alt-Tab, and close it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and ending "Project 1 (not responding).  Instead of doing that, right-click on the c:\johnny folder, select "Command Prompt Here", and type "Johnny5 1942 -debug" and Enter in the command window.  Now you will see a Command Prompt for GetDriver and a Command Prompt for GetVersion flash by.  Select the "GetVersion" command prompt from the status bar and right-click on the Title Bar and select Properties.  Under the Program tab, select "Close on Exit" and click Ok.  Now click the "X" in the upper right corner to close the Command Prompt Window.  Johnny5 should resume running and you should get to the screen above.  Sometimes this may not "Stick", so go back to the Command Prompt and run "Johnny5 1942".  If it hangs, repeat the process with debug enabled and try clicking Apply instead of Ok on the Properties tab of any new command prompts that you can still see.  This should eventually fix all the issues and get the program working.

Now, for all operating systems, right-click on C:\johnny, select "Command Prompt Here", run "Johnny5 area51" and verify you see the lightgun screen above, and run "Johnny citylove" and verify you see the Mahjong screen above.

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Tahnok:

--- Quote from: Buddabing on September 20, 2005, 10:08:44 am ---Besides the three options you mentioned, there is another called CP Sketcher. It's promising, but I don't think it can produce images just yet.

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Sorry for being a bit late, but...

CP Sketcher is not a CP viewer, it is for designing CPs. It can produce actual .bmp images though and creates a save file with all the part position information. I don't exactly know how most of the CP viewers work, but I think a converter could be made to change CP Sketcher format to something the viewers use.

CP Sketcher can be found at www.CreditButton.net.tc.

Howard_Casto:
The latest verison of j5 and the latest version of the ahk script for it will be relased sometime this weekend. 

I got sick of getting it ready only for the mamedevs to tweak the ctrlr format, so I held off until 0.100 was released and found to be stable again. 

Also I would like to point out that as of next version, J5 will also support the command.dat.  As mame32plus and it's clones are now broken due to core changes in mame, this will be the ONLY way to view command.dat data within mame.  Mameinfo support will be added shortly as the mamedevs dumped support for it too. 

papaschtroumpf:
is the AHK script tied to a specific version of mame?

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