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need your ideas chris
« on: February 27, 2006, 08:56:25 pm »
Top program by the way. Here is a pic of my cocktail cab which i have decided to use your juke. Just imagine it was yours, how would you set it up. Ive tried numerous scernarios and just cant crack it. Im not using the cover art one, just the standard abcd/1234 for song selections. If i had an 8 button player config id be right, but 6 buttons leave my combo a bit short. Anyway id greatly appreciate your input if you have the time. Cheers Grant


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Re: need your ideas chris
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2006, 10:31:27 pm »
Sounds like you already have enough buttons.  ;)  You can use the joystick (arrow keys) to move the selection box around and then hit spacebar (usually player 1 button 3) to choose the song.  I would change the pageup and pagedown keys to the white buttons that way you can flip pages.  If you do this I would change the selection method in the skin to single letter since P1 controls don't have letters. Yes, I know this isn't as easy as hitting a couple buttons to make a choice.

I wonder if you could make a skin that required 3 numbers to make a selection and then just use 1-6?

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Re: need your ideas chris
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2006, 10:43:28 pm »
In this situation I'd set the ToggleAlpha option so A, B, C, and D use the same buttons as 1, 2, 3, and 4, and duplicate the controls on both sides.

You could change the selection type to Numeric and set them up as 1-6, but you'll need to change the background image to do it.

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