MameWah request

[Valence]

I don't think that mamwah can do this but I thought if I put it out here maybe someone can come up with a way, or if not, maybe Minwah can add it in later on.

I would like the Message Form to load a background image dependent upon the Rom. It could do it just like the other artwork folders.
With that, I would also like it to prompt me to continue after it has loaded the game.

With these two things, I would be able to have an instructional picture presented before each game. It would save me a lot of work explaining what to do.

[Howard_Casto]

Dragon King can do this.  You have two alternate image slots for artwork.  All you do is make one as big as the screen (in a cusotm skin of course) and set it to be behind everything else.  I do this with crashtest's excellent versus screens for my fighter skin.   To do it in mamewah would probably be a bit more complicated as the gdi doesn't have any real z-order and the image would have to be repainted and loaded onto the background.  As vb isn't the quickest at loading files, it might be too slow to be useable.  

[Minwah]

Sounds like a good idea - I think someone mentioned something similar a while back...

I think it could work quite well, I don't see it being any slower than showing images on the main screen.

It's something that I will have to change the layout format for tho (along with some other things).  If anyone has any other ideas that involve adding things to the layout system, I suggest mention it before I start re-writing

[freppa]

I don't know if it involves the layout system, but I would like the default "nosnap" artwork displayed in the screensaver layout. I have title, flyer and marquee in my screensaver layout and it looks kind of bummed out when it only displays the title if there is no flyer and marquee.

/Freppa

[Minwah]

I don't know if it involves the layout system, but I would like the default "nosnap" artwork displayed in the screensaver layout. I have title, flyer and marquee in my screensaver layout and it looks kind of bummed out when it only displays the title if there is no flyer and marquee.

/Freppa

It should do this by default anyway...I'll check it out.

[Popcorrin]

Minwah you said something a while back about altering the winipac function so that after you are done playing a game that utilizes the winipac function to change the keys that it would resort back to the configuration prior to playing the game.  I didn't know if you were still planning on doing this but if you did that would be great.  Either way, thanks.

[Howard_Casto]

I think it could work quite well, I don't see it being any slower than showing images on the main screen.

It's not the displaying I'm referring to..... Imagine 4000+ background files at 1024x768, one for each rom and having them load in memory and change on the fly as you scroll through the list.  

I have a hard time doing it in dk with the added speed of dx loading the files for me.  

[Minwah]

Minwah you said something a while back about altering the winipac function so that after you are done playing a game that utilizes the winipac function to change the keys that it would resort back to the configuration prior to playing the game.  I didn't know if you were still planning on doing this but if you did that would be great.  Either way, thanks.

Yes this is on my todo list still (I will definately be doing it), just need some time...

[Minwah]

It's not the displaying I'm referring to..... Imagine 4000+ background files at 1024x768, one for each rom and having them load in memory and change on the fly as you scroll through the list.  

I have a hard time doing it in dk with the added speed of dx loading the files for me.  

Well Valence said he wanted the image to be displayed on the Message Form...as this is only really displayed while a game is loading it would not have to be refreshed when scrolling through the games list.  Displaying an image once while loading a game and then removing it after the game has quit would work a piece of cake

Also the Message Form would almost certainly never be anywhere near 1024x768, so the images to be displayed should be at lower res.

Granted if the images were to be displayed on the Main Form as a background as the list is navigated then it would struggle...

[papaschtroumpf]

Sounds like a good idea - I think someone mentioned something similar a while back...

I think it could work quite well, I don't see it being any slower than showing images on the main screen.

It's something that I will have to change the layout format for tho (along with some other things).  If anyone has any other ideas that involve adding things to the layout system, I suggest mention it before I start re-writing

Some of my layouts use a "please wait" art while the emulator loads (my jukebox app takes a while). I'd like PNG transparency to work so that I can see what's behind that form.

[Minwah]

Some of my layouts use a "please wait" art while the emulator loads (my jukebox app takes a while). I'd like PNG transparency to work so that I can see what's behind that form.

OK noted  Actually that won't affect the layout format, more the way the image(s) are displayed.