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ahofle:


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--- Quote from: ahofle on January 31, 2007, 07:09:39 pm ---I personally find it irritating that frontends don't support zipped up snaps/controlpanels/marquees (I assume that's what he was referring to?).

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I don't think this is such a good idea. Some of those files can be hundreds of megabytes. Do you really want your frontend to search a gigantic zip file every time it wants to display an image? Seems to me it would cause a huge performance hit.

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You don't have to unzip the entire file to get a snap out of it if properly implemented.  MAME32 has this feature and it's pretty much instantaneous. 

Are there any frontends out there that allow manipulation of the games list with a mouse/trackball?

Kaytrim:


--- Quote from: ahofle on February 01, 2007, 11:14:15 am ---
Are there any frontends out there that allow manipulation of the games list with a mouse/trackball?

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GameEx allows the use of the scroll wheel on a mouse (Z Axis)

Havok:


--- Quote from: ahofle on February 01, 2007, 11:14:15 am ---Are there any frontends out there that allow manipulation of the games list with a mouse/trackball?

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I think they all do - the best thing to do is try them out. AtomicFE has four options for game list navigation:


* keyboard/joystick/steering wheel
* mouse/trackball
* mouse/spinner
* mouse/light gun/touch screen

ahofle:

Well I did try Mala and Mamewah -- still need to try Atomic.  I guess I should've clarified what I meant by 'mouse manipulation'.  It would be nice to have a windows-like scroll bar that one could drag and drop the scroll 'slider' immediately to go from a game starting with 'B' to Zoo Keeper for example.  Slowly sliding the games list up and down with the mouse (or holding shift to move by X games) wasn't exactly what I meant.  Are there any frontends out there that have an actual scroll bar?

Havok:

I haven't seen any with a scroll bar, but Mamewah is probably the best for that: my friend is running it, and when you spin the trackball fast, the list scrolls like crazy. With all the roms listed on his, I could spin through them all within seconds...

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