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Title: Front End with Mouse Cursor support?
Post by: AlexMax on January 23, 2010, 05:37:48 pm

Hi there.  First post on these forums, and I have a question about the different front-ends.  Simply put, are there any MAME/General Emulator front ends with real mouse cursor support in addition to normal keyboard/joystick?  As in, are there any front-ends that show a mouse cursor and allow me to click on menu items, as opposed to hiding the mouse cursor and having it keyboard and joystick only?

Title: Re: Front End with Mouse Cursor support?
Post by: Space Fractal on January 23, 2010, 07:30:46 pm

I remember I did designed a Touchscreeen GUI in MultiFE which actuelly works for emulators and mame too... It can also show the mouse pointer.

Some Frontends can also use a mouse as a spinner like scroll, so you can scroll fast up and down.

All Frontends have been of course using keyboard and joystick in mind, but I guess this is for multimedia or such device where you have full access to a mouse (or trackball)?

Simple Touch Front End mightbeen another, but not sure it works with MAME (but should works for all others)?

I mean also I saw a mame plugin to Media Player Center as well, but not sure it touch/mouse freindly or not, its a year ago or such I saw that.

Title: Re: Front End with Mouse Cursor support?
Post by: Hoopz on January 23, 2010, 07:32:51 pm

GameEx and Mala do.  I'm 99% sure that Atomic does also.  In fact, I think most newer front ends and the ones being constantly updated all support the mouse.

Title: Re: Front End with Mouse Cursor support?
Post by: Havok on January 23, 2010, 09:41:03 pm

AtomicFE also supports mouse input. As well as touch screens!

Title: Re: Front End with Mouse Cursor support?
Post by: AlexMax on January 23, 2010, 09:53:19 pm

Ah, this is good news.  You guys sussed it out, I'm not making a MAME cabinet, it's an HTPC instead that will run Boxee, emulated games, DOSBox and Doom (my favorite game, it has tons of addon levels so it gets a section all to itself :P)  I decided to sign up here because all the googling about emulator front ends brought me to BYOACWiki.

Thanks for your help.