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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: mrclean on January 31, 2008, 06:36:51 pm

Title: MaLa layout issues, "defaulting" to ; standard.. most work with the exception of
Post by: mrclean on January 31, 2008, 06:36:51 pm

 ??? What I'm confused about is that when I hit the option to automatically change for emulator / game list most work.. however I'm trying to get PC_Engine layout working.. and the layout keeps defaulting to "standard", it was even also doing this for Mame, but i just resaved the standard layout with an alternative background.. why is it doing this ?

Title: Re: MaLa layout issues, "defaulting" to ; standard.. most work with the exception of
Post by: Xali on February 06, 2008, 12:38:18 pm

Did you named everything in the right way ??

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Under default conditions MaLa looks for the layouts in the program directory and uses one layout for all emulators and game lists.
To switch to another layout just select it in the listbox and close the dialog with 'OK'.

To use different layouts for each emulator and/or game list activate the 'Auto layout switch'. Then name the layout files (*.mll) in the following way:

emulatorname.mll and/or emulatorname_gamelistname.mll

Emulator name for MAME is always mame.
Game list 'All games': mame_all games.mll
Game list 'Shooter': mame_shooter.mll
To use one layout for all MAME game lists, name it mame.mll

For an emulator named C64:
Game list 'All games': c64_all games.mll
Game list 'Shooter': c64_shooter.mll
To use one layout for all C64 game lists, name it c64.mll

For an emulator named Sega Genesis:
Game list 'All games': sega genesis_all games.mll
Game list 'Shooter': sega genesis_shooter.mll
To use one layout for all Sega Genesis game lists, name it sega genesis.mll

The jukebox layout must be named jukebox.mll

• If the layout switch on game list switch is activated and the layout for the selected game list is not found MaLa loads the emulator layout.
• If the emulator layout is not found MaLa loads the default (standard.mll) layout.

The option 'Use layout names for directory names' toggles the use of folders for the layout content files (images, sounds). If it is activated these files must reside in a folder with the same names as the mll file.