Atomic FE Layout Question...

[surf]

I just tried Atomic, and all's I can say it WOW!  I have been using MAMEwah for the last 4 years and this looks really professional!

Anyway, I love the default layout so far, but how can you go about changing the scroll text at the bottom?  There is a PNG of a default text in the layout folder.  Is this what the FE reads the scroll from?

I'm sure there will be a few more questions forthcoming...

Keep up the great work!

Thanks for anyone's help...

[youki]

Hi,  thanks.

Atomic uses bitmapped ScrollText.  It means it doesn't use Windows Font , but instead bitmap images that represents each font.  the big advantage is you can do what you want as font, multicolor , mulitsize and other tricky things.

The default layout use a bitmap scroll text , but in a tricky way. Instead of having defined each font , i have defined a picture as a font.

I mean , when you read ,on the screen :

"<Joystick Image> Move up to browse the list "   , it is in fact for Atomic only one character....not 25...

The easy way to change the scroll text in the default layout is to modify directly the PNG Image.

Or you can change the scroll text by a more classic one , like the one done in layouts : totoleouf_15 and totoleouf_14 .  (you can see video of this layout in action on my home page ,it's called spaceharrier and racing)

The scroll text, can scroll a defined text, or game title , or any information you get from a file in a folder that can be specific for each game.

To define or modify a layout , you have to use ATomicLayoutEditor.exe which is in Atomic Folder.