MALA how to display info window (why is documentation so crap and is dead)?

[chucklepie]

Hello,
In layout editor you can specify 'info window', which I assume links to controller/keyboard/info open/close button configuration which in turns somehow links to the GUI/Info Window option.

But what do you need to get this to display? do you need a text file in a particular place with a particular name?

tbh, I really don't understand why so much love and attention went into this application yet the documentation is non-existent and despite the many people using it the majority of the wiki is completely empty too. I'm documenting as much as I can figure out which I'll happily share with others when I'm finished.....

Also, I assume from the last update being 2011 and lack of contact information, nobody is developing this any further? is the code open source?

[chopperthedog]

http://www.arcade-history.com/ & http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,45.0.html will make the info window useful.


good day.

[chucklepie]

Ok, thanks for your help.

What I was hoping for was to be able to display an info popup at any tree/emulator level to show help rather than having to fill my layout or monitor bezel with information.

I found this: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,119945.msg1271262.html#msg1271262

But when I try it I get random crashes, even with running notepad on files I know exist and in tree view %emu% variable returns random text.

Ah well.

[bmanbdaman]

Mala will execute these external programs just fine. I have Johnny5 show my custom help screen for each section using Mame as the external app since I use a Control Panel viewer (with %rom%). If you think there is an issue, create a batch file and see what Mala is passing as a parameter.

echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
pause

Then adjust accordingly.