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Howard_Casto:
Yeah thanks guys I'll look into it.  This is just a test proggie anyway but I'm curious to find the error. 


Randy in theory ocx's are components, not registered components meaning that you shouldn't even have to include them.  Unfortunately, for whatever reason some you do, some you just have to drop into a folder, and some you have to register.  It think it's because there are some crazy things you can do like put a dll inside a ocx ect... That's why they aren't as popular as they were.  Yours does something pretty simple though so it should be internalized and work fine. 

I don't want you to misunderstand.  I wasn't complaining about the ocx itself, just the ocx format in general. 


(Howard looks at his code.)

Ok found it......  just a stray chdir in there from when I was testing.  I can take that out.  Take 3 I guess.  ;)


hb... i'll reply over at donkeyfly (I check it at least once a day). 
RandyT:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 09, 2006, 04:20:14 pm ---Randy in theory ocx's are components, not registered components meaning that you shouldn't even have to include them.  Unfortunately, for whatever reason some you do, some you just have to drop into a folder, and some you have to register.  It think it's because there are some crazy things you can do like put a dll inside a ocx ect... That's why they aren't as popular as they were.  Yours does something pretty simple though so it should be internalized and work fine. 

--- End quote ---

Howard, If you find some way to internalize the OCX, be sure to tell me.  I've seen quite a few of them, and all were required to be present on the users system and registered via the the regsvr32 app.  You can call regsvr32 silently for automated installers or use a 3rd party DLL and do it from your own software, but to my knowledge, it is always necessary.

RandyT
Howard_Casto:
Randy... just an update.... yours seems to be the type 2 variety. 

You don't have to register it, it just has to be present in either the application folder or your system folder.  It does have to be included though.  I'm gonna put mine in a res file so the user won't have to deal with it. 
Howard_Casto:
Ok third times a charm...

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I also included a rather slapped-together readme.

MYX:
Hey Howard,
I have been on the PowerMAME band wagon for some time (with MAMEWah). I am sad to see PM die as it has so many great extras. Mike did some really cool work. I have been watching for alternatives to eventually switch to and I have been reading about your stuff for a while. Thank you for picking up interest in adding the GGG functionality to your FE.

I am not a programmer so please forgive the naivity of the following questions. I pick things up pretty darned fast, but alot goes right over my head. Ok, I do not know where MAME stops and the FE begins. I would love to see the extras that  PM offers available in the FE world if the MAME side is too hard to keep up with. But again I do not know what the limits of the FE are. I am a GGG user for interfaces, lighting, and joys, so obviously I sit in the GGG camp and will cheer on the guy who is making progress happen. The 2 majors for me are the LEDwiz functionality and the auto DRS selection per game.

1. Are the PM extras like running a LWA when there is a coin up, or qbert knocker, something that the FE can handle or is this strictly MAME?

2. Is Auto DRS select (for the 49ways) doable with the FE? Is it like the LEDWiz in the fact that MAME broadcasts the game that it is running and you can use that to also select which DRS mode to use? In PM in the user interface (within MAME) you can change this. I understand that to be a MAME thing, not a FE thing.

3. Which I should have asked before 2, but are you considering adding the Auto DRS ability, if it is possible?

Thanks Howard

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