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| Hewskie:
Thanks for all the interest in my post everyone! I'd like to clarify a little, the topic name is a bit misleading as I'm building a touchscreen jukebox that will not have any buttons at all on it. (see craptacular picture attatched). The machine will primarily be a Juke, but will have a "Games" screen used to launch mame games: touchmaster, touchmaster 3000, 4000, 5000, 7000 and 8000 all set to freeplay from the service menu. As the touchscreen is basically a mouse and mouseclicks, I will need a way to exit from mame and get back to xlobby (the jukebox) I really like the idea of creating an application to run on top of mame with an "exit" button in one corner that would send a keypress of esc to mame. I don't know much about programming, but i can't see this as being too difficult, If anyone could help me I'd be glad to send a few bucks (paypal) for your trouble, or maybe we could work out something else, Thanks (edit to mention games are set to freeplay) |
| Thenasty:
cheapest ($15-20) and easy way....doing it remotely. Get the AIRCLICK USB. It's advertise as a Multimedia Control but there is a plugin and act as a KEYBORD (ARROWS, ENTER) and also controls the Volume +/-. All you have to do it set the ESC in MAME as the ENTER KEY and have the remote somewhere. Also good for Shutting Down the Machine properly (by pressing the PLAY/ENTER by 5 sec). |
| mlalena:
I admit defeat. I whipped up a prototype virtual button program for you, and it all works except that I can't get it to appear on top of MAME. It appears on top of Mala fine. Don't have any more time to look at it today but maybe someone else can. I posted everything to my site including source code here: http://www.lalena.com/MAME/VirtualButton.html All parameters are command line based. I'm lazy. |
| Hewskie:
Wow, thanks for trying mlalena! This program seems perfect if we could get it to work. I think I'll make a post about it in the software forum if you don't mind. and Thenasty, that airclick remote is pretty cool, they're only 6-9$ on ebay so i'll probably pick one up anyway, thanks for pointing it out. |
| Sir Headless VII:
--- Quote from: Hewskie on July 06, 2009, 05:14:30 pm --- I remember reading about a mouse macro that could generate a keypress by moving the mouse in a prerecorded pattern, but I can't find anything on the subject at the moment. --- End quote --- If you want a program like that you can use a mouse gesture program like this one. I have never used that one so don't take this a huge endorsement of that particular program, it was just the first google hit. That said that program looks like it should do what you want. |
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