Using alt/F4, can I configure it so it doesn't backout of Mamewah?

[link2005a]

I am planning on using Alt/F4 (or hoping to) as the way to backout of the emulators and get back to mamewah (configuring a button to do this on my control panel).

Is it possible to make it so this button, if pressed one time too many, won't backout of mamewah to the main windows screen?

[screaming]

I am planning on using Alt/F4 (or hoping to) as the way to backout of the emulators and get back to mamewah (configuring a button to do this on my control panel).

Is it possible to make it so this button, if pressed one time too many, won't backout of mamewah to the main windows screen?

  No, not unless Minwah puts something in MAMEWAH to disable it and I don't think there is currently. 

  I don't think that's a reliable way of exitting an emulator since it's really up to the emulator and the way it handles inputs that will dictate whether or not it works. Even though that's Windows functionality you're trying to put to use, any software program can caputure it and act on it independant of what Windows says.

-sab

-sab

[JCKnife]

Why not just use esc, as Mamewah is set up to do? You can get modded emus or wrappers that will exit on esc. for any platform (that I've tried, anyway).

[papaschtroumpf]

before you go too far down the ALT-F4 road, make sure that the emulators you plan to run behave properly when they get the close message from window. For example some may ask you to confirm that you want to quit.

[link2005a]

before you go too far down the ALT-F4 road, make sure that the emulators you plan to run behave properly when they get the close message from window. For example some may ask you to confirm that you want to quit.

That's the problem. My NES and SNES emulators seem to require confirmation by the mouse and the Genesis emulator doesn't even seem to have a way to shut it down? Only thing that seems to universally work is the alt/F4 route. Which obviously has it's downside if I can hit it one too many times and kill mamewah too (thus undermining my hiding of windows on my cab).

[jelwell]

That's the problem. My NES and SNES emulators seem to require confirmation by the mouse and the Genesis emulator doesn't even seem to have a way to shut it down? Only thing that seems to universally work is the alt/F4 route. Which obviously has it's downside if I can hit it one too many times and kill mamewah too (thus undermining my hiding of windows on my cab).

I know you say you've been down this path before. But I'm wondering if you took the wrong turn in the path.

Emulators hacked to use ESC to quit:
http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/downloads.htm

Note that NES, SNES and Genesis are listed! As well as a million other emulators that I can't believe anyone would ever bother with.
Joseph Elwell.

[link2005a]

That's the problem. My NES and SNES emulators seem to require confirmation by the mouse and the Genesis emulator doesn't even seem to have a way to shut it down? Only thing that seems to universally work is the alt/F4 route. Which obviously has it's downside if I can hit it one too many times and kill mamewah too (thus undermining my hiding of windows on my cab).

I know you say you've been down this path before. But I'm wondering if you took the wrong turn in the path.

Emulators hacked to use ESC to quit:
http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/downloads.htm

Note that NES, SNES and Genesis are listed! As well as a million other emulators that I can't believe anyone would ever bother with.
Joseph Elwell.

Thanks for the help! This seems to be my final BIG sticking point with the software (finally got my emulators working with mamewah and got the screenshots working!).

Am I looking for .ini files for this "ESC to quit" solution? .cli's?

Thanks. 

[jelwell]

Thanks for the help! This seems to be my final BIG sticking point with the software (finally got my emulators working with mamewah and got the screenshots working!).

Am I looking for .ini files for this "ESC to quit" solution? .cli's?

Thanks.

[link2005a]

Thanks for the help! This seems to be my final BIG sticking point with the software (finally got my emulators working with mamewah and got the screenshots working!).

Am I looking for .ini files for this "ESC to quit" solution? .cli's?

Thanks.

[papaschtroumpf]

read the mamewah doc on how to map controls, I can' remember if the exit key was mapped but I would think it is.

By the way jelwell, thanks for the link, I hadn't notice that jcrouse had the modified emus for download last time I checked his page out. I did it the hard way and googled for modified emus.

[JCKnife]

read the mamewah doc on how to map controls, I can' remember if the exit key was mapped but I would think it is.

Yep, you can map the exit key to exit to windows, shut down, etc.

[papaschtroumpf]

what he wants to do is different though, I wants to use a different key than ESC.

[JCKnife]

Yeah, I beleive you can set it to any key.

For what it's worth, I don't think mamewah will exit on ALT-F4 (at least not by default)