Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: SGT on January 12, 2007, 07:54:16 pm
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This is probably a stupid question, but I just can't seem to find the solution. :dizzy:
In Mala, I want to be able to bring up both the History(Info) window by pressing a button AND the CPViewer by pressing another button. It seems like you can have either one or the other but not both.
I know that I can bring up the History window by pressing one button and having the CPViewer automatically come up before every game starts, but I don't want to have to see the CPViewer every time I play a game.
I looked at external applications but MALA does not seem to pass the %ROM% variable to the application. I hate to try to figure out how to create a plugin just to be able to activate the History viewer and the CPViewer from keystrokes.
Now please tell me what I'm overlooking. :banghead:
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I don't think it is a stupid question. ;)
I could be wrong but this is on SWINDUS to do list :dunno
Yeah at the moment it's one or the other for keystroke access.
But as you say you can have history (and other info) pop up with a keystroke and also have CPV2 launch upon game start
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Thanks loadman. Could I could use a plugin to launch CPV2 via a key press? After looking at the plugin SDK doc, I was not sure that a "key press" event could be trapped. :dunno
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Thanks loadman. Could I could use a plugin to launch CPV2 via a key press? After looking at the plugin SDK doc, I was not sure that a "key press" event could be trapped. :dunno
Hmmm A Plugin could keep track of the last selcted game rom name and send that detail somewhere such as the windows registry or a txt/batch file file.
So then you could launch CPV2 with the currently selected game via the keystroke of your choice using the External Ap options
So yes I think that is possible if you really want that