Mala Layout Question - Definable1

[cmoses]

Is definable1 only available in the MAME layout?  I see where you can set it up in the MAME portion, but it does not show up under options in the Other EMU configurations. 

I am trying to convert a MAMEWAH Nintendo layout and it has a space for cartridge, box, and two snap shots.  I am using marquee for box, control panel for cartridge, snap/title for snap 1.  I tried to use video for the second snap, but it did not work.  Guessing that it is looking for a .avi file.  So I setup definable1 to be the second snap under the MAME options.  I do not get anything displayed in the layout though.  I swapped the snaps and they both work, but only under snap/title, nothing ever displays under definable1.

Any help would be appreciated.

[loadman]

Is definable1 only available in the MAME layout?  I see where you can set it up in the MAME portion, but it does not show up under options in the Other EMU configurations. 

I am trying to convert a MAMEWAH Nintendo layout and it has a space for cartridge, box, and two snap shots.  I am using marquee for box, control panel for cartridge, snap/title for snap 1.  I tried to use video for the second snap, but it did not work.  Guessing that it is looking for a .avi file.  So I setup definable1 to be the second snap under the MAME options.  I do not get anything displayed in the layout though.  I swapped the snaps and they both work, but only under snap/title, nothing ever displays under definable1.

Any help would be appreciated.

Definables for Emu's other than mame will be avaliable in the next version.. I Hope so anyway.

I have half implimented it so far in the beta version 

[cmoses]

Good to know, and thanks for all your hardwork.

[TheShanMan]

I'm looking forward to this! Thanks loadman!

[loadman]

I have the definables displaying in the Other Emu layouts already. That was the easy bit.

Decisions I am yet to make are:

1) Am going to have common directory paths for all 'other emu's' or paths per 'emu' yet..
Does anyone care? 

2) Where to save this data?. The emu files *.mle probably won't be backward compatible after this. I could save in the mame.ini if all other EMU's shared the same the same directory paths I guess 

Just my current pondering.....

[TheShanMan]

I think it's better to have it per-emu. I think doing it "right" is more important than being able to go back to a prior version of mala. I can't remember if mala has an actual installer. If so, you might want to have it back up config files on upgrade. If not, at least put a warning by the download link. That's my 2 cents.

[shock_]

Wow, I want this feature too!

My head hurts too much right now to add any value with discussions about the architecture... I'm sure you'll work it out though loadman

Thanks again

[loadman]

It's happening and it works allready.   

Just working through methods of saving the new config the 'right way' so that I don't screw up peoples current emu settings.

WIP PIC