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CPWizard v2.63 Released
headkaze:
It's true the rotation layout could be improved alot so it's not so horribly stretched. I may take a look at that at some time.
Berzerk: Today I added a new option under Display Options called "Auto Rotation" if you enable that it should auto rotate the screen based on the orientation of the game. Let me know how it goes for you :)
Berzerk:
Oh, that's fantastic! You really surprised me! Thank you very much, I'm gonna test that over the the week-end and let you know!
thank you,
Berzerk
Berzerk:
Hi Headkaze,
I tested the new autorotate function in CPWizard within MAME with the pause function and it works like a charm. I did test left and right rotation with about 50 games and it always worked. I also checked games that have (strangely) "rotate=270" in the listinfo.xml because I expected a bug there, but no, it always rotatet to the right direction. Great.
Now I don't want to appear unashamed, but one more question. Do you think it's possible to implement that functionality for the cooperation with MALA too? In MALA there is an option to substitute the internal information viewer (ALT in the gamelist) with an external Controlpanel viewer (wich I did). Mala can also run horizontal and vertical (according to the last game you played in mame). At the moment, no matter what orientation MALA is, CPWizard always shows up horizontal.
Don't know if it's possible, is just an idea to make it more perfect :-)
Thank you very much,
Berzerk
headkaze:
Berzerk: I could add a new command line option like "-rotate 90" etc. Would that work?
Berzerk:
Headkaze: It would help in an indirect way. If you would implement a commandline option like -rotate 0:90:180:270 then I could write a script and according to that script I could start CPWizard always in the orientation I want...
So yes, my guess is, that would be a good thing...
PS: I just testet this with a batch file that starts CPWizard from mala and yes, that would work. It is my problem then to find out when I would like it to start in what orientation, but that's ok :-)
Thank you,
Berzerk