front end stay active during play?

[Beretta]

kinda weird question but im working on something and was wondering are there any front ends that stay active after launching mame?

i do not have much FE exp, so i thought i'd ask here.

[Tafoid]

kinda weird question but im working on something and was wondering are there any front ends that stay active after launching mame?

i do not have much FE exp, so i thought i'd ask here.

Most (all?) front-ends simply shell to the external program (emulator) with the settings and sleep in the background until control of emulator is terminated.  Having a front-end which runs while a selected emulator is running is not only problematic but will also hurt your emulator's performance.  I don't see a reason you'd want that..

[Beretta]

you misunderstand i dont want that.

i wanted to know if there was any that stayed active as in kept their proces running.

im working on something it would make things easier if FE terminates it self after running mame.

[loadman]

What would you desire happen after you quit the Emu?

[LeedsFan]

I'm also a little confused as to what you would like the FE to do. If the FE terminates fully on selection of a game then basically you are just running the emulator only. And once you quit the emulator then what?... back to desktop? Once the FE terminates itself (as in completely closed) then you need to start it up again.

Perhaps I'm not understanding the OP correctly, or he isn't explaining it so well.

[Space Fractal]

A frontend need to been keep alive, elsewise it cant been turn back to the game section when the emulator quit. If it did, it would take very long time to load the library every time.....

So yes they do running (all frontends do that), but yes they do it very minimum activity, since they propenty dont do anything other than waiting the process to been finished (excecpt tracking the exit key or such thing).