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Title: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: kegger on May 06, 2010, 12:11:42 pm: I'm having a problem switching emulators and think maybe the layout is causing it
keeps crashing Mala when get to Astrocade
Below is some of the log and attached is the whole log

Thanks

2010/05/06 11:51:06.39 Info: Loading emulator: Astrocade
2010/05/06 11:51:06.39 Info: Collecting game list files (ml6) in D:\Emulators\Mala\
2010/05/06 11:51:06.39 Info: Loading game list: D:\Emulators\Mala\All Games.ml6
2010/05/06 11:51:06.39 Info: Switching layout: D:\emulators\Mala\Layouts\Astrocade
2010/05/06 11:51:06.39 Info: Changing Layout
2010/05/06 11:51:06.64 Info: Loading layout: D:\emulators\Mala\Layouts\Astrocade.mll
2010/05/06 11:51:06.87 Error: Object Class: TTimer, Object Function: DisplayVideo, Exception Class: EListError, Exception Message: List index out of bounds (131)
2010/05/06 11:51:08.92 Info: Showing taskbar
2010/05/06 11:51:08.93 Info: Game List: Hiding Blend Window to reveal new list
2010/05/06 11:51:08.96 Info: Screensaver: ScreenSaver Form Destroyed
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: kegger on May 06, 2010, 12:48:38 pm: Maybe because of Absolute path was not correct I changed all in layout editor and resized some fonts and all seems well now

Would still like to know the problem as I am still curious
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: loadman on May 06, 2010, 07:59:43 pm: Quote from: kegger on May 06, 2010, 12:48:38 pm
Maybe because of Absolute path was not correct I changed all in layout editor and resized some fonts and all seems well now

Would still like to know the problem as I am still curious

I have seen this when a game list (regardless of emulator) gets into a state somehow where it is too long or zero in length. I have changed the code in some places already to handle this but there may be more bugs. Time will tell when I release new MaLa beta and you guys heavily test it for me ;)
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: kegger on May 07, 2010, 08:58:37 pm: Yea, something is up because I am still getting this crash at times but when you do an update I'll be glad to test it for you if it won't screw up my setting to bad.

Thanks for for you help :cheers:
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: loadman on May 07, 2010, 09:49:58 pm: Quote from: kegger on May 07, 2010, 08:58:37 pm
I'll be glad to test it for you if it won't screw up my setting to bad.

Yeah you don't want to risk mess up you setup.

I recomend copy and pasting the mala folder to another (in dunno .. called .. say malatest) and use the beta seperatley
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: andrewbean90 on May 09, 2010, 06:54:00 pm: I got the same prob now with the most stable version 2010/05/09 18:48:48.36 Error: Object Class: TTimer, Object Function: DisplayMarquee, Exception Class: EListError, Exception Message: List index out of bounds (14)

is my error 1.05a
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: OzStick on June 19, 2010, 10:49:35 pm: I might be a little late tacking onto this thread, but I had a similar problem with the first multi emulator setup I did in MaLa. It turned out that MaLa didn't like using PNG files for the layout, so I converted them to GIFs and never had the crashing problem again!
Title: Re: Mala crashing when switching emulators
Post by: loadman on June 20, 2010, 12:47:42 am: Quote from: OzStick on June 19, 2010, 10:49:35 pm
I might be a little late tacking onto this thread, but I had a similar problem with the first multi emulator setup I did in MaLa. It turned out that MaLa didn't like using PNG files for the layout, so I converted them to GIFs and never had the crashing problem again!

I just converted a few Marquee JPG's to PNG and it seemed to work ok.

If you could let me know if you have the same problem with the latest beta that would be useful ;)