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CPWizard v2.63 Released
blind_dado:
If you've never done this before, hitting "shift, print screen" doesn't seem to do anything, but it places a screen shot on your clipboard. Then you can go into any other program (like photoshop or faststone) and paste it into that program for cropping and editing. FastStone Image Viewer actually has a good screen capture utility built in, if you want to go that way.
Flake:
OK is there anyway to eliminate the grid lines when "printing"? This would be great for me to use as an "instruction card" but would prefer to eliminate the gridlines prior to printing.
Also, just a note based on HeadKaze's post about the three options for integrating pause.
I tried out using option number one but I set my show key to Mame's pause button (p) and it seems to work (kind of) - with one minor glitch. When I hit pause in mame, the CP shows and when I hit pause again the CP goes away but Mame does not unpause. I hit pause again and the CP pops up and when you hit pause again the CP goes away and mame unpauses. So its not "clean" per se but for now it keeps me from having to reprogram my IPAC (I've never done that before).
Anyway, just providing some feedback.
doctorhifi:
Flake- I also encountered your particular problem when I was setting up the new pause options. I also have an Ipac (Ipac2). My pause button is connected to the X (1SW6) terminal on the Ipac and I previously had the MAME general settings adjusted so the pause key in mame was X. What I ended up doing was changing the value for pause in MAME general settings back to the default (p) and made the SHOW KEY in CPW equal X.
I left the other settings in CPW as HeadKaze has shown in his attached image in his last post.
Don't know if this will help you or not, but it worked for my situation.
Flake:
--- Quote from: doctorhifi on May 19, 2009, 10:37:38 am ---Flake- I also encountered your particular problem when I was setting up the new pause options. I also have an Ipac (Ipac2). My pause button is connected to the X (1SW6) terminal on the Ipac and I previously had the MAME general settings adjusted so the pause key in mame was X. What I ended up doing was changing the value for pause in MAME general settings back to the default (p) and made the SHOW KEY in CPW equal X.
I left the other settings in CPW as HeadKaze has shown in his attached image in his last post.
Don't know if this will help you or not, but it worked for my situation.
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Well the problem really is this - Based on my control panel design, I actually want the pause button for Mame and CPW to be the same. Otherwise if I start reprogramming other control panel inputs to work as pause it will begin to mess with my other mappings.
I wonder, if I just need to set the mame pause key to another button, reprogram my Ipac to that button then set CPW's show key also to that button. Is the problem just that CPW (based on the new default setup noted by HeadKaze) cant interact with mame's pause button for some reason? So you have to just map everything to a different key?
headkaze:
--- Quote from: Flake on May 19, 2009, 10:44:20 am ---I wonder, if I just need to set the mame pause key to another button, reprogram my Ipac to that button then set CPW's show key also to that button. Is the problem just that CPW (based on the new default setup noted by HeadKaze) cant interact with mame's pause button for some reason? So you have to just map everything to a different key?
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Mame's pause key cannot be the same as CPWizard's Show Key. There is a technical reason for it which is not really worth explaining other than to say I've tried to get around it but have not found a way yet.
The only way around it is to set Mame's pause to be a key you will never use, and then set CPW to use the 'p' key. Then CPW will pause Mame anyway when you press pause, and unpause it again when you exit. If you want to pause Mame without showing CPW perhaps you could use a "shifted" button on the IPAC for that. Or perhaps use a shifted button for CPW. Bottom line is they have to be different otherwise Mame will ignore the unpause message.