Johnny 5 Viewer beta 1.5 released!

[Tiger-Heli]

That sounds like what I was suggesting.

BTW, the tags should probably be gpwiz, not gpwhiz, FWIW.

P.S.  Howard, you can control it using the joystick and a pre-defined button already in firmware without loading the software at all.  I think the software was mainly added for FE's to be able to switch automatically, and the mouse clicks were for people who couldn't configure it in their frontends.

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah, but afaik then you have to have a dedicated button, which is not cool.

[2600]

If someone wanted to be really clever, instead of sending a command to the GPWIZ software they'd do it themselves.  Although, I'd get permission from RANDYT first.

I didn't follow you here - they would do what themselves - send the codes to change the stick modes?  You could do this b/c the interface supports mode switching through hardware as well (basically what Toonces was doing through a relay board connected to the parallel port), but you would have to do some complicated wiring and send simulated keypresses, etc.  I don't think you would need RandyT's permission, but I don't see what you would gain since the software switching is much easier.

I was talking about software switching.  I'd ask for RandyT's permission as a common courtesy because it's a bit different then some || port hack, but let's not dirty Howard's thread for that discussion.  If you still don't understand what I'm talking about PM me.

[Howard_Casto]

I understood you, that's why I didn't comment. 

My primary rule of homebrew software is "don't re-invent the wheel".  It makes me very angry when people make software that does exactly what something I made already does.  It's a waste of their time.  In this case the tables are turned.  The gpwiz software works great, it's stand alone (so It doesn't bloat my code) and has easy to use command line tags. 

It would be a utter waste of my time to write new software when the software randy provides already does the job. 

[Tiger-Heli]

2600 - I see what you meant now.

Howard - I assume you are aware of this, but for the viewer info, we check controls.ini for the gamename and parent name and then report not found if no entry exists.  This is good for the controls viewer.  For the GP-Wiz, rather than defaulting to 8-way at this point, we really want to parse MAME and see what it lists for controls type.  The MAME data is terribly inaccurate, but it

[Howard_Casto]

2600 - I see what you meant now.

Howard - I assume you are aware of this, but for the viewer info, we check controls.ini for the gamename and parent name and then report not found if no entry exists.