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Title: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: cmoses on October 17, 2008, 04:41:30 pm

Is definable1 only available in the MAME layout?  I see where you can set it up in the MAME portion, but it does not show up under options in the Other EMU configurations. 

I am trying to convert a MAMEWAH Nintendo layout and it has a space for cartridge, box, and two snap shots.  I am using marquee for box, control panel for cartridge, snap/title for snap 1.  I tried to use video for the second snap, but it did not work.  Guessing that it is looking for a .avi file.  So I setup definable1 to be the second snap under the MAME options.  I do not get anything displayed in the layout though.  I swapped the snaps and they both work, but only under snap/title, nothing ever displays under definable1.

Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: loadman on October 17, 2008, 11:47:26 pm

Quote from: cmoses on October 17, 2008, 04:41:30 pm

Is definable1 only available in the MAME layout?  I see where you can set it up in the MAME portion, but it does not show up under options in the Other EMU configurations. 

I am trying to convert a MAMEWAH Nintendo layout and it has a space for cartridge, box, and two snap shots.  I am using marquee for box, control panel for cartridge, snap/title for snap 1.  I tried to use video for the second snap, but it did not work.  Guessing that it is looking for a .avi file.  So I setup definable1 to be the second snap under the MAME options.  I do not get anything displayed in the layout though.  I swapped the snaps and they both work, but only under snap/title, nothing ever displays under definable1.

Any help would be appreciated.

Definables for Emu's other than mame will be avaliable in the next version.. I Hope so anyway.

I have half implimented it so far in the beta version  ;)

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: cmoses on October 18, 2008, 12:53:03 am

Good to know, and thanks for all your hardwork.

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: TheShanMan on October 18, 2008, 02:13:03 am

I'm looking forward to this! Thanks loadman!

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: loadman on October 18, 2008, 04:21:32 am

I have the definables displaying in the Other Emu layouts already. That was the easy bit.

Decisions I am yet to make are:

1) Am going to have common directory paths for all 'other emu's' or paths per 'emu' yet..
Does anyone care?  :dunno

2) Where to save this data?. The emu files *.mle probably won't be backward compatible after this. I could save in the mame.ini if all other EMU's shared the same the same directory paths I guess  :dunno

Just my current pondering.....

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: TheShanMan on October 18, 2008, 01:10:09 pm

I think it's better to have it per-emu. I think doing it "right" is more important than being able to go back to a prior version of mala. I can't remember if mala has an actual installer. If so, you might want to have it back up config files on upgrade. If not, at least put a warning by the download link. That's my 2 cents.

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: shock_ on October 21, 2008, 05:50:58 am

Wow, I want this feature too!

My head hurts too much right now to add any value with discussions about the architecture... I'm sure you'll work it out though loadman :)

Thanks again

Title: Re: Mala Layout Question - Definable1
Post by: loadman on October 21, 2008, 06:14:54 am

It's happening and it works allready.   ;)

Just working through methods of saving the new config the 'right way' so that I don't screw up peoples current emu settings.

WIP PIC