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Led-wiz helper app Version 2.0.86 released (UPDATED!)
buks:
mahuti,
You've only gone and bleedin well done it ! Absolutely superb app ! I've just pasted a load of lwa files together and saved it as mamewah.lwa, added the necessary stuff to mamweah.ini and fired it up. Brilliant !
One thing I've noticed is that I probably need to turn the leds off when running a game as powermame does the in game attract mode and also can display the buttons. That wasn't working when I tried Centipede but I've had a hard day today so won't test it again till tomorrow maybe.
Another thing is theres a few seconds delay from running your exe and the lights coming on - I presume this is down to the language its written in ? Not that its an issue but sometimes programmers leave debug traces in beta software which speeds up once their commented out. Just a thought !
Once again, this is just what the ledwiz needs (in my opinion). Full kudos to Randy for getting things out in the field but you and MikeQ should get a mamey or something :)
I'll post more results as I get them.
Buks
mahuti:
I think it has more to do with the method I'm using with the led-wiz app, rather than the app itself. I was a bit concerned about this early on, but through my experiments, it seems that the method (pasteboard posting & polling) is the bottleneck, not my code. Early on I got super aggressive about code cleanup, and it didn't make a difference. Even when I take out a whole bunch of features, it's still a momentary gap. Someday I'll figure out how to interact with the DLL that MikeQ created and that problem will probably go away...
And re: turning leds off... let me know how that goes. You'll want to pass xledwiz to actually turn off the ledwiz if you're using powermame... rather than just turning the leds off (ledsoff.) Passing xledwiz works here (as long as the path is right), but the real world always throws you for a loop. If there is indeed anything screwy, let me know.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: mahuti on June 23, 2006, 06:14:49 pm ---I think it has more to do with the method I'm using with the led-wiz app, rather than the app itself. I was a bit concerned about this early on, but through my experiments, it seems that the method (pasteboard posting & polling) is the bottleneck, not my code. Early on I got super aggressive about code cleanup, and it didn't make a difference. Even when I take out a whole bunch of features, it's still a momentary gap. Someday I'll figure out how to interact with the DLL that MikeQ created and that problem will probably go away...
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Yeah one of my first concerns when randy talked about the product was the copy&paste crap. I know for a fact that the clipboard is slow as hell. The clipboard converts data to clipboard format everytime you send it some... when you poll the clipboard your api call (or whatever you use) has to convert it back as well. On top of that I believe the clipboard has a built in delay of a few milliseconds. This is so teh system has time to catch up.
mahuti:
I've been programming web junk for years, including pretty heavy application type ActionScript stuff, as well as php, etc, but I just never have time to sit down and learn Visual C, C++, etc. It's pretty close to AS... just another OOP, but there's enough difference that I have to actually sit down and TRY to learn it.
Too bad... there's a lot things that'd be a lot easier / faster for me in the world of app programming. At the least I'd be able to tap strait into the led-wiz instead of this half assed method. When I started this, I was building it for myself, figuring eventually someone else would build a "real" application to suit. I guess maybe one of these weekends I should actually crack those windows programming books I have laying around.
Circo:
I am no wiz with programming but couldn't you take some of the powermame code and use instead of using the clipboard?
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