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c# Mala Plugin
« on: July 20, 2009, 05:18:51 pm »
Is it possible to write a MaLa plugin in c#?  Does anyone have any classes to start with?

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Re: c# Mala Plugin
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2009, 06:33:05 pm »
I can't help you with C#, I lean more toward VB myself, but I have been interested in MALA plugins.

Actually, I've been contemplating a .net front end for a while now, specifically one based on WPF. I experimented with the video support in .NET3.5 a while back (to do a few things that Mala can't), and that part, at least came pretty easy.

Now, the rest of Mala :o

That's another story entirely.

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Re: c# Mala Plugin
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2009, 07:15:09 pm »
I hear ya.  I'm a .net developer, but mainly ASP.NET (c# and Vb).  MAME front ends seem simple since they just make command line calls.  But, then you add skinning, customization, and Plugins and things get out of hand pretty quick. 

I'm just looking to write a small MaLa addin to support a second monitor and maybe show marquees and cps on a 7" screen below my monitor.  Not really that complicated in C#, but I'm not going to back to C++ to get it done.  Been almost 10 years since my college C++ days.