MAME Output System - Turn on and multiaccess??

[Necro]

Two questions on the mame output system:
- Do I need to change a setting for it to be activated?
- Can multiple programs access it at once (i.e., cpwizard and ledblinky). 

Having some issues getting things working just right and MAME output seems to be screwey and not working as it should. 

[Howard_Casto]

Two questions on the mame output system:
- Do I need to change a setting for it to be activated?
- Can multiple programs access it at once (i.e., cpwizard and ledblinky). 

Having some issues getting things working just right and MAME output seems to be screwey and not working as it should. 

1.  No.

2.  Maybe... Mame's output system broadcast's it's messages to all windows and in theory any window that responds gets the data, BUT there might be hardware conflicts..(two programs might not be able to talk to a ledwiz at the same time ect...).

But your example confuses me.... cpwizard displays controls.dat info and optionally lights up buttons for you... that has NOTHING to do with mame's output system. 

[Necro]

It uses the mame output system (potentially) to catch when to display the CPs (i.e., display on pause).

Having some issues getting it working using the system resulting in pause button needing to be pressed three times to fully cycle instead of two.  First time pauses and brings up the CP.  Second closes cpwizard.  Third unpauses the game.  Which, I guess is ok...but....would like it to work correctly.

[headkaze]

Having some issues getting it working using the system resulting in pause button needing to be pressed three times to fully cycle instead of two.  First time pauses and brings up the CP.  Second closes cpwizard.  Third unpauses the game.  Which, I guess is ok...but....would like it to work correctly.

Depending on the method you use in CPWizard you can get it to unpause MAME when you exit. Check out the different methods. Method 1 should do what you want. It sends a message to MAME to unpause when you exit CPW.

[Necro]

I sat down and figured this out tonight.  Basically, I was getting a call then a pause or something along those lines, resulting in the key needing to be set twice.  Changed a few key binds around, and things seem to be working perfectly. 

Now I just need to know how to edit the CPWizard menus!