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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: sealslayer on November 08, 2006, 05:23:50 pm
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Whats happened to the most important of options in Mala?
I've just installed the latest version and it only gives me the option to quit mala, I like the other features it has but no shutdown or reboot options from the game menu is very disappointing unless I cant find them.
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Whats happened to the most important of options in Mala?
I've just installed the latest version and it only gives me the option to quit mala, I like the other features it has but no shutdown or reboot options from the game menu is very disappointing unless I cant find them.
The shutdown is still there (My cab is running it) Trust me ;)
You have the option to quit or shutdown
It may have moved in the config?, I can't check right now (at work)
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Yeah, I've found the shutdown and quit options but why did they get rid of the option to select either of them from the game menu?
You have to have either one or the other and its a hassle to have to right click, change the options etc if you have it set to shutdown and you want to go to desktop or visa versa.
I know the programs free etc but that really bugs me, I think I'll stick with my old version
/rant off
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Hmm, dont know what you talking about ...
In the MaLa menu there is still a menu 'exit' where you can choose: quit, shutdown or reboot.
(http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/wiki/fetch.php?cache=cache&media=menu_exit.gif)
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I think he is refering when you press ESC key.
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Ok, but theres was no change concernig the exit functions in MaLa since nearly 2 years now. So I don't know what he means by 'get rid of'. Maybe he found a bug but then I need a better description of what's going wrong or is missing here.
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I've just started using MaLa, so I'm not real familiar with all its features, but when I hit the Player 1/2 start button combo on my cab, I also only get the option to quit, not that Exit Menu. Is that what the original post refers to?
I have my PC bios set to shut down Windows when power button is hit, so I have just been exiting MaLa and doing that.
Just throwing that info out there.
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You can open the 'MaLa Menu' with Player 2 start button (key '2') only by default. Then scroll down and you will find the exit menu from the picture above. The small exit window is just one additional option to quit/shutdown MaLa in a more direct way without opening the menu window. In the options dialog you can choose the action: quit or shutdown.
There are a lot of more functions in the MaLa Menu, don't miss it! Here is an overview of all functions of the MaLa Menu on the old wiki pages: http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/wiki/doku.php?id=mala_menu
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Yeah, I've found the shutdown and quit options but why did they get rid of the option to select either of them from the game menu?
You have to have either one or the other and its a hassle to have to right click, change the options etc if you have it set to shutdown and you want to go to desktop or visa versa.
I know the programs free etc but that really bugs me, I think I'll stick with my old version
/rant off
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I have it set on my cab so if i hit player 1+2 I will get the option to shutdown which I can confirm by hitting player 1 or cancel by hitting player 1+2 again. You choose to have it set up this way in options dialog as Swindus said
In the options dialog you can choose the action: quit or shutdown.
:-)
If I want to quit then I will need my mouse anyway to use windows, so I right click to select quit
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(http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/wiki/fetch.php?cache=cache&media=menu_exit.gif)
Yeah that's what I'm missing when I press the escape key, I either get the quit screen or shutdown logo depending on what I have set.
I'm trying out the latest version on my laptop before I put it on my cab so maybe I've messed it up somewhere.
Please don't take my words as a criticism of your program, its great and its all I've ever used it just seemed strange to change the menu, if its still there then great and I'll try and find out what I've done wrong.
That menu is in the standard layout, does the new space invaders layout also have the same menu option?
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Ah, now I understand your 'problem'.
The small exit window was added in MaLa v1.0 beta3 and the 'exit' function now opens the new exit window. Before the exit function opened the exit menu of the MaLa menu.
To open the old exit menu you have to open the MaLa menu and scroll down.
The options are the same in every layout.
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Ahha Found it on player 2 button as mentioned above...duhh :banghead:
:laugh2:
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cool..........
This is my set-up which is diffrent from most: I don't use the menu. Just the shutdown bit.
When my son had a party a couple of weeks ago I (temporarily) also used the 'disable exit function in gui' so they would not accidental bring up the 'SHUTDOWN' window if they hit Player 1+2 twice after quitting a game
See attached pic