Mala LEDWizard v1.1 Available

[edge]

Mala LEDWizard Overview:
LEDWizard allows you to create LEDWiz CFG files.  These CFG files can be used with Mala for full LEDWiz RGB support.  Combined with the power of the Mala LEDWiz Plugin and Controls.Dat, you can:

• Light up your controls in any RGB color by using the LEDWiz intensity levels
• Light up your controls as you scroll through game lists in Mala
• Light up your game specific controls when you launch a game in MAME
• Set default lighting schemes for other emulators as well

v1.1 Release Information:

• No longer requires the .NET framework. Woo hoo!
• All screens sized for 640x480.
• Save game specific configurations, allowing you to override your default lighting scheme for a specific game
• Save emulator specific configurations, allowing you to override your default lighting scheme for each emulator (ie, Atari 2600 vs MAME).
• Download it here: http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/plugins.html.

Much More To Come:

• Attract mode
• Batch CFG generation
• Ability to define and light admin buttons
• Save emulator CFG files in directories
• Potential integration with loadman's Speech plugin
• Support for button Flashing/Ramping

Thanks, again, to swindus and loadman for their help.

I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
Edge

[youki]

What i can say, it is i like the look'n feel of your dialog! 

But how you can change settings for each game in your dialog?


Nice work.     

[squirrellydw]

Would love to test it out but my cocktail table won't be ready for testing till February sometime.  Looks great so far

[edge]

What i can say, it is i like the look'n feel of your dialog! 
Nice work.     

Thank you, youki!  That means alot.

But how you can change settings for each game in your dialog?

Great question.

When you hit SAVE, another dialog pops up...


From here, you can save your settings as a main mala config, game config or emulator config.

At first, I had seperate buttons for each type of save, but it got confusing.  I think this streamlines it a bit.  What do you think?

[loadman]

Edge is now a 'Delphi' Wizard 

[edge]

Edge is now a 'Delphi' Wizard 

hehe.. thanks, loadman.  you have come a long way yourself. 

[headkaze]

Nice work egde, very sexy GUI

I am confused about how you were dependant on the .NET Framework though when you were coding in Delphi.

[edge]

Nice work egde, very sexy GUI

I am confused about how you were dependant on the .NET Framework though when you were coding in Delphi.

Headkaze - Thanks!  As for .net... The first version was in Visual Basic.  This version, I rewrote it in Delphi.

[loadman]

Just to summarise

Much More To Come:
Attract mode
Batch CFG generation
Ability to define and light admin buttons
Save emulator CFG files in directories
Support for button Flashing/Ramping
*** Fix up/work around to make .lnk files (PC GAMES) use LedWiz

And Possibly Potential integration with loadman's Speech plugin:
 This would flash each button/Control and say (with speech) it's function
* This would be triggered by games played less than 5 times or when manual triggered
 * In and case you would have the option to skip or repeat

[squirrellydw]

Yes, please make the speech work   

[edge]

And Possibly Potential integration with loadman's Speech plugin:
 This would flash each button/Control and say (with speech) it's function
* This would be triggered by games played less than 5 times or when manual triggered
 * In and case you would have the option to skip or repeat

Nice, loadman.  I am sure your wife is very happy.

[loadman]

And Possibly Potential integration with loadman's Speech plugin:
 This would flash each button/Control and say (with speech) it's function
* This would be triggered by games played less than 5 times or when manual triggered
 * In and case you would have the option to skip or repeat

I would be happy if I cold skip her speech sometimes 
Nice, loadman.  I am sure your wife is very happy.

[headkaze]

Just some advice when working on the "Speak Buttons Actions" feature, if you create a thread to loop through each button, you should not use SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault or WaitUntilDone because "The WaitUntilDone method explicitly blocks program execution until the voice finishes." You must use the SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFlagsAsync flag with the SpeakCompleteEvent Method and the WaitForSingleObject() API function.

So first you create thread for method SpeakButtons()

Eg. Some pseudo code...

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SpeakButtons()
{
   loop(through each button)
   {
       light up button on LEDWiz

       get button action

       voice.Speak(button action, SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFlagsAsync);

       int handle = voice.SpeakCompleteEvent();

       WaitForSingleObject(handle, INFINITE);
   }
}
It's important you do it that way otherwise the whole FE will freeze up until each word is spoken. Using the above method in a thread, it will continue executing.

Just thought I'd share my results, hope it helps.

[loadman]

Thanks again Mr Headkaze