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EndTwist:
New updates! It now auto-setup's itself if you put all the files in the MAME folder. Also, a few problems fixed. I still have some stuff to fix, but its working pretty nicely.

Rod1968:
Looks Great
Nice simple clean design
I was able to get it to work with a little tweaking
and it looks very promising

Just a few bugs to report:
1 - After unziping and running the GLgen and then
running the MYFE.EXE there are no games in the
games.dat for some reason the myfe.ini  sets the
gamelist path to Gamelist=C:\mame\myfe.ini
even after changing it to Gamelist=C:\mame\games.txt
it still doesn't work. The only way I was able to get it
to work was to extract the updated .exe and .ini over
the old files, also even after doing this if I delete the
contents of the games.dat I have to extract the files
over again to get it to work.

2 - I tried changing the font size and style in the skinner and it keeps defaulting back to the original
I saved and reopened the skin to see if the changes
stayed and they do. I also changed the skin to read only, but once I run the frontend it reverts back to
the default font and size

EDIT:
I was able to get this to work by adding the .myf
extention to the file when I saved it. The only problem
now is that the skinner doesn't compensate for the
larger font so the gamelist ends up over lapping
each other

3 - The games.dat file is reporting the wrong game
names for the actual roms available
Donkey Kong/dkong is being reported as
donkey kong jr. (moon cresta hardware)
missile command/missile is being reported
as guided missile
I only put a few roms in the folder so there may be others but  im not sure. Also I am aware the missile
command is horz, I just threw a couple of roms in the
folder for testing  purposes an that just happend to be one of them.

Great looking frontend
Keep up the nice work
Thanks
Rodney

EndTwist:

--- Quote from: Rod1968 on January 18, 2004, 12:49:51 am ---Looks Great
Nice simple clean design
I was able to get it to work with a little tweaking
and it looks very promising

Just a few bugs to report:
1 - After unziping and running the GLgen and then
running the MYFE.EXE there are no games in the
games.dat for some reason the myfe.ini  sets the
gamelist path to Gamelist=C:\mame\myfe.ini
even after changing it to Gamelist=C:\mame\games.txt
it still doesn't work. The only way I was able to get it
to work was to extract the updated .exe and .ini over
the old files, also even after doing this if I delete the
contents of the games.dat I have to extract the files
over again to get it to work.

--- End quote ---
That first part of your problem I find weird, because that just shouldn't happen. The way I programmed it, that's kind of unexpected. I'll look at that. The second part of this, where you say you changed it to "C:\mame\games.txt" is only because you need to reset the RunTwice key back to zero.


--- Quote ---2 - I tried changing the font size and style in the skinner and it keeps defaulting back to the original
I saved and reopened the skin to see if the changes
stayed and they do. I also changed the skin to read only, but once I run the frontend it reverts back to
the default font and size

EDIT:
I was able to get this to work by adding the .myf
extention to the file when I saved it. The only problem
now is that the skinner doesn't compensate for the
larger font so the gamelist ends up over lapping
each other

--- End quote ---
Yeah, I keep having problems with the skinner. It's a huge PITA, but I'll get around to focusing on it soon. They skins do need the .myf extension to be used, otherwise they will not work.


--- Quote ---3 - The games.dat file is reporting the wrong game
names for the actual roms available
Donkey Kong/dkong is being reported as
donkey kong jr. (moon cresta hardware)
missile command/missile is being reported
as guided missile
I only put a few roms in the folder so there may be others but  im not sure. Also I am aware the missile
command is horz, I just threw a couple of roms in the
folder for testing  purposes an that just happend to be one of them.

--- End quote ---
Hm...I'll look at this. It has never happened to me before.

Thanks for the feedback!

EndTwist

delta88:
hmm, i have a vert mame cab? anyone wanna toss a screenshot up in heeer?

EndTwist:
Sure, no problem.

Screenshot 1

There are still a couple of bugs I need to work out this weekend, but its getting there.

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