Author Topic: MaLa Plug-In Dev's.. We have our own Forum Section (Read 16557 times)

loadman · « **on:** February 01, 2007, 03:40:02 pm »

It was my suggestion (I hope it was a good one)

http://www.arcadezentrum.com/forum/board.php?boardid=68

We could use this to bounce Ideas of each other I guess and announce new Plug-ins to the rest of the world too.

PS Its a German basen board but if you have 'half a brain' to develop plug-in's I'm sure you can cope with logging on to it.

You can write your posts in English

fatfingers · « **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2007, 04:52:35 pm »

And get used to saying "Ich verstehe nicht". Or something like that!

loadman · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2007, 06:21:54 pm »

Quote from: fatfingers on February 01, 2007, 04:52:35 pm

And get used to saying "Ich verstehe nicht". Or something like that!

Automatically translated text:
Ich verstehe nicht = I do not understand

I think you will find they understand very well. Clever folk are the Germans I think :-)

Note" A lot of good stuff is to be found outside USA too...

including.... (not a complete list of course)

Like me = Pest (aus)
headkaze (aus)
minwah = MameWah (UK)
swindus = MaLa (Germany)
youki = Atomic (France)
tspeirs = GameEx (UK)

and of course all you good folk here in this USA based forum

What a wonderfull global team we make

headkaze · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2007, 07:20:42 pm »

Variety is the spice of life

Sounds cool loadman, I will have to join up so we can gasbag about plugins

loadman · « **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2007, 08:40:26 pm »

Quote from: headkaze on February 01, 2007, 07:20:42 pm

Variety is the spice of life

Sounds cool loadman, I will have to join up so we can gasbag about plugins

I may not speak German but very fluent b*llsh*t

fatfingers · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2007, 09:03:48 pm »

Quote from: loadman on February 01, 2007, 06:21:54 pm

Quote from: fatfingers on February 01, 2007, 04:52:35 pm

And get used to saying "Ich verstehe nicht". Or something like that!

Automatically translated text:
Ich verstehe nicht = I do not understand

I think you will find they understand very well. Clever folk are the Germans I think :-)

Sorry if I was misunderstood. I was trying to say that I would have to say that a lot (not them). It was not meant as a slam on all of those multi-lingual folks that I so envy (but am too lazy to do anything about).

loadman · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2007, 09:56:34 pm »

opps Sorry

fatfingers · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2007, 10:07:29 pm »

No problem! Just wanted to make it clear that I'm the idiot!

squirrellydw · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2007, 10:08:13 am »

I would be more than happy to set up a forum on my site if you need one dedicated in English. You can have as many sections as you want.

UPDATE!! I made one quick, if you want you can use it if not let me know and I will uninstall it.

mala.theseashore.us

headkaze · « **Reply #9 on:** February 03, 2007, 12:16:19 am »

I think Mala having an English forum is a good idea.

It looks a bit plain without a banner logo though, so I knocked one up.

edge · « **Reply #10 on:** February 03, 2007, 09:07:20 am »

I like the english forum. Thanks, Squirrelly.

Nice logo, hk.

squirrellydw · « **Reply #11 on:** February 03, 2007, 10:59:54 am »

So who should be the moderators? Any other topics you want added?

squirrellydw · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2007, 11:33:07 am »

Quote from: headkaze on February 03, 2007, 12:16:19 am

I think Mala having an English forum is a good idea.

It looks a bit plain without a banner logo though, so I knocked one up.

thanks, I updated it and it looks nice

fatfingers · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2007, 11:49:12 am »

Joined

squirrellydw · « **Reply #14 on:** February 03, 2007, 03:27:44 pm »

by the way if you guys really want a forum just in english, I will probably use my other domain name and have that site dedicated to it. This was just a quick one I could install. Or I could register a new domain name, just my way of saying thanks. I could give the MaLa guys full access to it if they want. What do you think?

arzoo · « **Reply #15 on:** February 05, 2007, 08:24:05 am »

Quote from: edge on February 03, 2007, 09:07:20 am

I like the english forum. Thanks, Squirrelly.

Nice logo, hk.

I second the english forum. As a resident of the US, I (like all other english speaking only US residents) believe that english is the language of the world

. Kidding aside, we just need to make sure we have consensus on a single forum. My 2 cents.

squirrellydw · « **Reply #16 on:** February 05, 2007, 10:21:09 am »

So who is the master mind behind Mala, Loadman?? What does he think? I just don't want to be stepping on anyones toes. If we do an all English forum do you want a dedicated domain name, like Malafe.com (already taken) or something.

arzoo · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2007, 10:29:50 am »

Quote from: squirrellydw on February 05, 2007, 10:21:09 am

So who is the master mind behind Mala

swindus

squirrellydw · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2007, 10:48:26 am »

thanks, sent him a PM

loadman · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2007, 05:03:17 pm »

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So who is the master mind behind Mala, Loadman??

...

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I just don't want to be stepping on anyones toes.

I agree. He may want to retain control.

I await his view

swindus · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2007, 04:25:21 am »

squirrellydw,

thanks for paying back in that way. But I think another MaLa forum is not required. There is an official MaLa forum (http://www.arcadezentrum.com/forum/board.php?boardid=61) and it is no problem to write and ask in english there. There are a lot of english speaking users and posts already. Then of course the BYOAC forum is also a place where MaLa users can find help.

The problem I see is that the information is spreaded over several places. That can be very confusing ... Another point is then I have to check 3 different forums at all.

If you want to create a platfrom for MaLa plugin devs, no problem, you are welcome, but there is no need for a new official general purpose MaLa forum in my opinion.

headkaze · « **Reply #21 on:** February 06, 2007, 05:00:51 am »

Maybe we should make a forum just for Arcade Application Development? (Call it AAD?) Then all us coders and developers can chat about the more technical stuff. I think that would be cool

swindus · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2007, 05:09:31 am »

Quote from: headkaze on February 06, 2007, 05:00:51 am

Maybe we should make a forum just for Arcade Application Development? (Call it AAD?) Then all us coders and developers can chat about the more technical stuff. I think that would be cool

good one!

loadman · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2007, 08:51:55 am »

Quote from: headkaze on February 06, 2007, 05:00:51 am

Maybe we should make a forum just for Arcade Application Development? (Call it AAD?) Then all us coders and developers can chat about the more technical stuff. I think that would be cool

Can casual dev newbies like me chat to you Pros too ?

squirrellydw · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2007, 09:58:57 am »

ok, I will take it down.

edge · « **Reply #25 on:** February 06, 2007, 01:30:24 pm »

Quote from: headkaze on February 06, 2007, 05:00:51 am

Maybe we should make a forum just for Arcade Application Development? (Call it AAD?) Then all us coders and developers can chat about the more technical stuff. I think that would be cool

That works! Do you think we can get a subforum on here?

squirrellydw · « **Reply #26 on:** February 06, 2007, 02:46:31 pm »

If they don't want to do it here I can do it. Just let me know, of course it would be better on here

arzoo · « **Reply #27 on:** February 07, 2007, 07:27:12 pm »

loadman,
With a bit of help from AltaVista Babel Fish, I was able to register and post to the new Mala Plugin forum!

I've posted my MaLa Stub test app. For those interested, here's the link - MaLaStub.zip

loadman · « **Reply #28 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:11:02 pm »

Quote from: arzoo on February 07, 2007, 07:27:12 pm

loadman,
With a bit of help from AltaVista Babel Fish, I was able to register and post to the new Mala Plugin forum!

I've posted my MaLa Stub test app. For those interested, here's the link - MaLaStub.zip

Good Work

I use: http://www.google.com.au/language_tools?hl=en

I don't use it much anymore. You quicky get an idea

I will check out you latest stub offering

squirrellydw · « **Reply #29 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:22:07 pm »

what is the Malastub?

loadman · « **Reply #30 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:38:31 pm »

Quote from: squirrellydw on February 07, 2007, 09:22:07 pm

what is the Malastub?

It is a 'Kewl Tewl' to assist Plug-in Developers from having to Launch/quit MaLa just to test things on their plug-ins.

It will also save me changing my personal MaLa set-up all the time just for testing purposes

This KICKS BUTT!

I love it

It will save me a lot of pain loading and Quitting MaLa to test stuff

I just tried it with two Plug-ins

I am going to use this a lot

As you pointed out in your doc. Some Plug-in's expect things in a certain order

Two suggestions:
1) Can you have an option that only enables buttons in order?
eg You have to hit 'Mala Start' before the others are enabled, All buttons are dimmed when you hit Screensaver start until you hit screen saver stop etc etc and you have to hit 'Mala Quit' before you quit your ap?
2) Changing selected Plug-ins sometimes crashed your ap. Mainly a problem with the more complex Led-Wiz ap (no big deal) . You just have

Also I think Swindus is planning to add a new trigger 'current screen orientation' to the next version. Can future additions like that easily be added to your app?

Thanks

Load

fatfingers · « **Reply #31 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:43:55 pm »

Quote from: loadman on February 07, 2007, 09:11:02 pm

Quote from: arzoo on February 07, 2007, 07:27:12 pm
loadman,
With a bit of help from AltaVista Babel Fish, I was able to register and post to the new Mala Plugin forum!

I've posted my MaLa Stub test app. For those interested, here's the link - MaLaStub.zip

Good Work

I use: http://www.google.com.au/language_tools?hl=en

I don't use it much anymore. You quicky get an idea

I found that hovering over most items will show the link at the bottom and the link is usually pretty descriptive and in English!

arzoo · « **Reply #32 on:** February 07, 2007, 10:27:57 pm »

loadman,
Thanks for the props!

I had considered adding logic to enable the event buttons in some order, but each plugin is different - for example, the Mature plugin doesn't even require the Mala Start event. In the end, I just decided to let the user make or break the plugins.

It should be no problem adding any new events or event data that swindus adds to MaLa.

loadman · « **Reply #33 on:** February 07, 2007, 10:33:51 pm »

Quote from: arzoo on February 07, 2007, 10:27:57 pm

loadman,
Thanks for the props!

I had considered adding logic to enable the event buttons in some order, but each plugin is different - for example, the Mature plugin doesn't even require the Mala Start event. In the end, I just decided to let the user make or break the plugins.

It should be no problem adding any new events or event data that swindus adds to MaLa.

Kewl... I will just be careful

I read the readme properly and noticed you can have it fire up automatically fire up within the BDE without re-naming the dll to mplugin

Super Helpful to me. I feel I should make a donation to the arzoo Beer fund or something.

loadman · « **Reply #34 on:** February 08, 2007, 01:08:17 am »

I guess we should close this thread soon and use the new forum

anyway....

Quote

Installation
------------
MaLaStub.exe uses the same folder structure as MaLa.exe. All plugins (*.mplugin) should reside in a sub-folder called 'Plugins'. It will also detect any DLL (*.dll) in the same folder as MaLaStub.exe.

I am having a minor prob with this...

It finds the *mplugins and *dll's in a subfolder called 'plugins
But it does not seem to find *.dlls in the same folder as MaLaStub.exe so using it to auto run with delphi does not find the *.dll's

arzoo · « **Reply #35 on:** February 08, 2007, 08:50:28 am »

Quote from: loadman on February 08, 2007, 01:08:17 am

Quote
Installation
------------
MaLaStub.exe uses the same folder structure as MaLa.exe. All plugins (*.mplugin) should reside in a sub-folder called 'Plugins'. It will also detect any DLL (*.dll) in the same folder as MaLaStub.exe.

I am having a minor prob with this...

It finds the *mplugins and *dll's in a subfolder called 'plugins
But it does not seem to find *.dlls in the same folder as MaLaStub.exe so using it to auto run with delphi does not find the *.dll's

Sorry about that... the readme was wrong. MaLaStub only detects the .mplugin and .dll files in the Plugins sub-folder. So you need to have your development files in the plugins folder and point the BDE to MaLaStub.exe one folder above.

Code: [Select]

…\<DevFolder>
MaLaStub.exe
  …\<DevFolder>\Plugins
  <your plugin>.dll

I've fixed the readme in the zip file.

loadman · « **Reply #36 on:** February 08, 2007, 09:53:55 am »

No Worries

loadman · « **Reply #37 on:** February 16, 2007, 05:00:30 am »

Arzoo,

Just wanted to say again how great your MaLaStub app is.

It saves me so much time and it makes it more fun because you can test stuff more easily.

You da man

edge · « **Reply #38 on:** February 16, 2007, 09:38:28 am »

Loadman / Swindus,
Do you have admin rights on that message board? Can you please reset my password (username = edge)?

I tried to use the "Forgot Password" functionality, but the verification code it sends me is rejected as invalid.

Thanks.

If not, I will sign up with a diff name.

loadman · « **Reply #39 on:** February 16, 2007, 05:12:13 pm »

Jason (inventor of Mala hardware) is a forum admin. He is the one who set-up the Plug-in section

Cool guy too

I will ask him


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