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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Bender on November 16, 2007, 07:24:19 pm

Title: In MALA can you have a four sided control panel WITHOUT rotating the screen?
Post by: Bender on November 16, 2007, 07:24:19 pm

Hi Everyone

I'm building a four sided rotating panel on my cab and I would like different lists of games for each side
I've been able to do this with Mala but the screen rotates as if it were a cotail cab (as it is supposed to)
I just want the screen orientation to stay the same, cause this is an upright cab
Is there a way to disable the rotating function?

any ideas?

project herehttp://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68865.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68865.0)

Title: Re: In MALA can you have a four sided control panel WITHOUT rotating the screen?
Post by: loadman on November 16, 2007, 08:34:32 pm

Not a bad idea... Worth Suggesting to swindus.

As a hack a plug-in could be written to change the orientation back after the list changes.

You would have the screen flip a bit when you change controls but that could be regarded a 'Bling bling' feature...  ;)

Title: Re: In MALA can you have a four sided control panel WITHOUT rotating the screen?
Post by: Lilwolf on November 19, 2007, 06:03:23 am

This is very similar to the setup needed for a hotswap control panel setup (which I have).

I never found any good solutions.  So I started writing my own frontend.  It ended up taking a LOT more time then I spent actually playing though.   

The closest I've found was to use the tree view (where one button gives you a list of games).  Then moving the roms around for each control panel.  But this sucks for keeping your roms up to date.  But I haven't found a great solutions...

If you find anything, let me know!

Title: Re: In MALA can you have a four sided control panel WITHOUT rotating the screen?
Post by: loadman on November 19, 2007, 08:03:06 am

well if you want to go the plug-in route let me know

It would be a variation on this:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69957.msg715219#msg715219 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69957.msg715219#msg715219)

Title: Re: In MALA can you have a four sided control panel WITHOUT rotating the screen?
Post by: Lilwolf on November 20, 2007, 05:39:35 pm

How would this work?  I'm not sure what configuration it would take, or what the end results would look like.

Is the plugin available to play with (not that it would directly be useful, but might give me an idea what the plugins can do

thanks!

Title: Re: In MALA can you have a four sided control panel WITHOUT rotating the screen?
Post by: loadman on November 24, 2007, 07:12:07 pm

... Hmm I was wrong.

I thought about it a bit more and realised the only nice way of doing it is via a mod to mala itself.

Ask Swindus I guess for a 'disable rotation in coctail mode' option ;)