New MaLa Plug-ins: For rotating monitors.... and more

[loadman]

An expansion on this post:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=77724.msg832885#msg832885

Two new plug-ins have been created:
'1) MonOri - Sets the initial orientation of MaLa depending on the input it gets from the parallel port. You can use an old printer cable.. It's easy to set up so you can detect what orientation your monitor is on

2) StartCom- This will start a external program on game start and send paramaters to that program depending on the orientation of that game started. It can be any program

DaOld Man' now has the Delphi source code for these plug-ins and will handle future release of these plug-ins for those interested.

He will probably also make a config program for them rather than manually edit the .ini file to set options.

DaOld Man please expand on why these plug-in were created and the usage.

Enjoy

[DaOld Man]

DaOld Man please expand on why these plug-in were created and the usage.

I asked Loadman if he could make a plugin for mala to be used with rotating monitors.
On startup, if the monitor is vertical, then mala starts in vertical.
If monitor is horizontal then mala starts horizontal.
It reads the inputs from the monitor, the same ones that stop the monitor when it reaches its destination.
These inputs are to be hardwired back to the printer port, to indicate to the computer which position the monitor is in.
He came up with monori plugin, which works great.

The second plugin, startcom, was also requested by me.
It runs my program, mrotate.exe, to turn the monitor to the position that the game needs. (Horizontal or vertical).
This program works great too.
Startcom is a mala pugin. It decides the monitor position based on the game being run.
It starts my program and sends a command to rotate 0 (horizontal) or 90 (vertical).
My program (mrotate.exe) takes over from there and does the grunt work of rotating the monitor.
Mrotate.exe monitors inputs and stops the monitor when it has reached the desired position.
Startcom is the brains and mrotate.exe is the muscle.

Link to an introduction to mrotate.exe

Monori and mrotate.exe require inpout32.dll, an interface for the printer port.
 

[csa3d]

Where does one find mrotate.exe?  It does not appear to be linked in this thread unless I'm going 

-csa

[csa3d]

Also, I didn't see any rotating monitor plugins on the Mala webiste either    Did malaRotate.mplug from Weisshaupt ever leave beta status?

-csa

[javeryh]

This is so sweet.  I really really need to get back to my rotating monitor project but I'm afraid it's going to be a while.  I have to finish up my juke and then my dad and I will be restoring a DK together this spring.  So much to do, so little time!!