Does Lazarus dislike spaces in path?

[BASSOFeeSH]

I moved my MAME folder under "my documents", & updated all the appropriate files.(I hope)

Anyway, Lazarus starts up fine & loads of the game list.  When I try to load a game nothing happens though.  If I exit & look at the log file & see what I guess is the last command line that it executed.  i.e. "mame.exe d:\my docuements\mame\roms\...".  If I type that into a command prompt mame errors out.  

I guess my question is if Lazarus(and other FE's) can try to put quotes around paths?

[joeblade]

You could always use the command line wrappers to take care of the problem.

Howard (the author of lazarus) has one that can be downloaded from his web page, and I also have one (check out my post at http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=6741)

Cheers

Joe

 

[rampy]

I moved my MAME folder under "my documents", & updated all the appropriate files.(I hope)

Anyway, Lazarus starts up fine & loads of the game list.  When I try to load a game nothing happens though.  If I exit & look at the log file & see what I guess is the last command line that it executed.  i.e. "mame.exe d:\my docuements\mame\roms\...".  If I type that into a command prompt mame errors out.  

I guess my question is if Lazarus(and other FE's) can try to put quotes around paths?

My very general suggestion is to get your mame working from the command line first... If mame doesn't work from the command line, nothing in Lazarus is going to get it to fire up from there (well it'd be highly unlikely)  did you move MAME.exe (And folders) or just the roms... ?

Also, hopefully that typo above is just on the message board and not in your laz configs...

My non-laz specific suggestion is to check your mame.ini in order...  you shouldn't *need* to pass the full rom path like you are doing (HC if i'm wrong, please correct me)

*shrug* good luck!

rampy

[Howard_Casto]

Lazarus has no problem with spaces nor does mame.  Windows 98/95, however sometimes does.  If it isn't working in the command line then it's a command line issue.  

Also rampy is right, the short solution is to simply add all the paths in your mame.ini as well and turn off the send path option for mame.  A new feature that dxlaz will have requires this, as a matter of fact.  

[Chazz]

I noticed that the 'List Generator' will not work with spaces.  'Neogeo Xtreme' does not work, but 'NeogeoXtreme' works fine.  I had this problem myself.

[Howard_Casto]

The list generator works fine with spaces (i know because my path has about a thousand), but it calls mame to help generate the list.  So mame cannot be in a directory with spaces, but lazarus certainly can. In other words all will be well, just keep mame and your roms out of directories with spaces in them.  

I hate to be harsh guys, but mame was originally a dos program, and you should treat it as such.  Keep your emu-related paths clear of spaces.  

[BASSOFeeSH]

hmmn

Thanks  

[wee beastie]

Call me crazy, but can't he just use "my_doc~1" instead of "my documents"?  This has always fixed similar problems for me on my win98 cabinet.

[BASSOFeeSH]

I'm using XP w/ NTFS, but I'll give it a try when I get home.

[Howard_Casto]

Yes this will also work, but short path names can only be passed through my generic command line wrapper.  I may add this code as default for mame games thought as it doesn't hurt to pass the short path at all.