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Odonadon:
Just tried version 3.0 - same thing.  ESC just pauses it.  Is there another quit key combo accessable through MAME default key layouts?

Thanks,
Odonadib

Odonadon:
I'm not clear on the purpose of the wrappers if it won't let me quit the emulator using ESC.....  Am I missing something?

Odonadon

Howard_Casto:
Since I'm such a nice guy, I downloaded the gens emulator just to try it with my wrappers.  It works with every version of my wrappers so I'm not sure what you guys are doing wrong.  (Or differences in setup, gens version ect....) My best guess would be you have auto pause turned on and it's causing issues.  I couldn't get it to not exit though so it's rather hard to troubleshoot.  


Btw odonadon the documentation is in the lazarus online manual under "wrappers."  (who'd have thunk it)  It's probably not up to date but it should explain what you are asking about and the purpose of the wrappers.  

Odonadon:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 02, 2003, 11:45:04 pm ---Btw odonadon the documentation is in the lazarus online manual under "wrappers."  (who'd have thunk it)  It's probably not up to date but it should explain what you are asking about and the purpose of the wrappers.  

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Well, to clarify, I wasn't aware the wrappers were part of Lazarus as they are a separate download.  Which is why I didn't look in the Lazarus manual, which may also be why ESC isn't working for me - I'm not running Lazarus.  At least, that's what I gather from the documentation

"My wrappers take the standard mame-style command line sent by Lazarus and translate it into data that the emulator can understand be it via simulated key presses for windows emus or translated command line options for command-line-based ones. "

Since there's no Lazarus to send commands to the wrapper, it won't work?  But Minwah said I don't have to use Lazarus for it to work...


--- Quote ---Since I'm such a nice guy, I downloaded the gens emulator just to try it with my wrappers.  It works with every version of my wrappers so I'm not sure what you guys are doing wrong.  (Or differences in setup, gens version ect....) My best guess would be you have auto pause turned on and it's causing issues.  I couldn't get it to not exit though so it's rather hard to troubleshoot.  
--- End quote ---

Is auto pause an option in Gens?  If so, I didn't see it when looking through the options.  I've tried the escape command from my arcade setup (Ipac) and from the keyboard - no dice.  It just pauses the game.  Nothing more.  All I've changed in the ini file is the executable name.

Thanks,
Odonadon

joeblade:
Howard, just for my own curiosity, how does your code work, with regards to the command line wrapper intercepting the key strokes, checking if its the 'exit'' key and then terminating the child process.

I did a minimum of windows coding quite a long while ago (hence consider me knowing very little about windows programming then), but I assumed that all keystroke event messages would go to the current active window, which would be the emulator. How does the command line wrapper intercept or know of the key press ?

Feel free to not answer this question (for whatever reason, too complex, top secret etc ..), I will live without knowing the answer, just curious (as I get, a lot).

Oh, and well done on lazarus .... great FE.

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