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CPWizard v2.63 Released
Neverending Project:
I'd bet the issue is similar (or the same) as one I and others have seen with Mala. There was a thread here, but nothing got resolved.
Coincidentally, I just looked at this again last week. I think the issue is the way Mala uses a "Starting" window, but I'm not sure. It seems like when you launch MAME from the Mala menu, it shows a "Starting" window, then hides it and launches MAME. Pausing MAME the first time will (in my case) bring up CPWizard right away, as expected. But exiting CPWizard brings you back to a blank Mala window (no menus, no text), with a minimized title bar in the lower left called FORM or something like that. You can hear MAME in the background because it has been un-paused by CPWizard. If you use a keyboard to switch to MAME, you can then exit and you will go back to Mala. But if you then launch MAME again, when you pause it CPWizard doesn't display correctly. And I think you see a second minimized window/form in the lower left. Repeating the above produces more minimized windows, and a real mess.
I'm sure I am not explaining this well enough for HeadKaze or anyone to help trouble-shoot, but I am interested in finding a solution. So if someone has time to help solve this, I can provide whatever details are necessary.
Note that I have tried this with numerous different options, all with the same results. Most recently, I tried using Method 1 from Headkaze's website.
raungst:
I was able to solve my slow loading issue of the control panel by correctly using MaLa to get CPWizard into its resident mode. HeadKaze was right, it was loading everything from scratch everytime.
I also see exactly what Neverending Project is talking about. Showing the control panel beforehand works fine, but trying to show the menu, whether via detecting the pause or sending the pause renders MaLa unusable. I'm assuming as well, that its based on how MaLa waits for the emulator to return.
nipson:
Hopefully someone can solve my issue. I've got CPWizard and Maximus Arcade. The only time I want to show the Control Panel is when a game is chosen from the menu in Maximus. I want it to show the controls for about 5 seconds, then go into the game. I don't care about screenshots/artwork/second monitors etc. I just want it to show for those few seconds before the game is started. I've tried passing in this in the command line PreLaunch tab for mame:
-emu mame -game %name -timeout 5000
While this shows the CP, it never goes back into mame. You can here it the sounds running in the background, but focus never switches to mame. Alt + Tab doesn't get me there either.
I've also selected the Enable checkbox under the MAME Tab in the Options menu in the "Auto Show (On Game Start)" panel. I left Show Delay at 2000 ms and Timeout at 5000 ms. This doesn't seem to work for me. What other options should I be checking?
Can you please help me?
nipson:
Oddly enough, it has now started working as intended. I removed the prelaunch command line a couple of days ago and have just been going without. Last night I rebooted my pc for probably the 10th time since I made the above post. Fire up Maximus Arcade and what do you know? My layout!
kenshen:
Sorry for thread Resurrection but I'm having a problem with cp wizard and Mala i get the CP wizard screen with info to appear but when i try to hide it and go back to mame it disappears and all i see is the background image of MaLa help!