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Author Topic: having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working  (Read 3498 times)

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having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working
« on: April 14, 2008, 01:46:05 pm »
I am having a ton of trouble getting mala tree to work, i tried to follow the simple steps on byoac.wiki but no luck all i end up with is a black screen with very faint game list in the background , no art, no snaps, no nothing comes up, its really aggravating me. i can cycle trough me emulators and game lists even though its hard to make out but no luck with back ground artwork or aything else. i can't even figure out how to get the background picture i made to show up in the mala layout program
  I'm sure im just overlooking something simple but once again i have to turn to you guys for help, and advice anyone could give would be appreciated. thanks in advance

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Re: having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2008, 02:15:14 pm »
ok i got something working, i did get my background picture to show which is a plus, but i can not get a background picture to show behind the list of "all games" in any emulator. Does anyone know how to do this?

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Re: having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2008, 07:29:41 pm »
fix your Z-order with the layout editor

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Re: having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 09:31:45 am »
Yeah, these are all layout problems, not tree problems.  Any artwork used in a layout (ie the background image for example) needs to go into a folder with the same name as that specific layout.  It sounds like this may be one of your issues.

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Re: having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2008, 08:55:34 pm »
So what's the tree for anyway? Seriously, I don't get the logic behind the configuration scheme of MaLa. Maybe it's because it does too many things?
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Re: what's it for?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2008, 07:44:43 pm »
Tree is for organizing lists of games and other programs.  If you use your MALA to do too many things you may appreciate quick branched access to some of the things versus scrolling a single list to find a certain thing.  You can navigate such a interface with common arcade controls.  A search bar function is faster if you have a keyboard or other alphanumeric interface handy, but I think one does not exist for MALA.

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Re: having alot of trouble trying to get MaLa Tree working
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2008, 07:59:55 pm »
So what's the tree for anyway? Seriously, I don't get the logic behind the configuration scheme of MaLa. Maybe it's because it does too many things?

Really ?  Most find it was one of the better ones in this area.

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