Mamewah Help: Future Pinball Focus?

[massive88]

Ive got Future pinball goin in my cab, and it all launches and works fine, except that the focus doesnt appear to be on the right window when the pinball table loads.

I have to hit alt-tab one time to get to the correct window, then all my buttons work, and it works perfectly.

I tried all combinations of Dosbox and Safemode in my launching, does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work better?  Id hate to have to map an alt-tab macro...

Or does anyone have Future Pinball launching correctly from Mamewah that could post their info?

I followed Jc's ini to get it started, that was the only reference I could find...

[Space Fractal]

There are allready topuc on this one, if you used search (if you also know, they called wrappers).

Anyway, here we go:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Wrappers

[gonzo90017]

You are using the latest version. Mamewah 1.62b13a?

Actually you don't need a wrapper to launch it but you do need it to exit.

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### futurepinball.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            Future Pinball

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\juegos\futurepinball\Tables
rom_extension                             fpt
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\juegos\futurepinball\closemul.exe /open "[rompath]\[name].[romext]" /play /exit{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       C:\juegos\futurepinball\snaps
movie_preview_path                        C:\juegos\futurepinball\videos
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                         
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                saver_commandline
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

Here's the download if you're interested. Just modify it for your needs.
Future Pinball for Mamewah Instalable

[massive88]

Fractal:

I did search, and found no help.  I thought a wrapper was more used for emulators that required keypresses to start, not necessarily focus issues.  If my question pissed you off I apologize, but nonetheless I appreciate the link to the wiki, thanks!

Gonzo:

Isnt closemul a wrapper?  Is there any reason to use this instead of the wrapper listed in the wiki? The table with the /exit argument already exits with pressing the ESC key.  Does closemul fix the focus issue?  I have dabbled with closemul before trying to get Ultra64l to work (to no avail, finally gave up on it    ).  But if it will simply correct the focus then I will go that route.  Thanks for the reply and the help.

[gonzo90017]

I haven't had any focus issues. That particular setup has been downloaded 126 times and the focus issue hasn't been reported.

[Space Fractal]

sorry if I upset you. Not mean.

Wrapper can also used for various think to get problem applications to been cab friendly, regardless it a emulators or not. That is what I call for using a wrapper. Mostly they are actuelly wrote in AutoHotKey or such application.

It was some debate about extract that focus issue, not long ago, I guess it was with MALA or GameEX, but can't remember and diddent search for that thread. Regaardles which FE it was, it diddent work one these, why I updated the Wrapper to get it work from these. The wrapper was orignally wrote for mamewah 1.61.

So the focus is a tiny bug in Future Pinball, and is mightbeen would never been fixed, even I reported that bug too in Future Pinball Forum.

The newest MAMEWAH version might have take cear of that focus problem and got the window actiavated when run.

This is the directly why, I might have upset you, which is of course not mean. sorry.

And or course: Welcome to the board, since you are really new  .

[massive88]

No worries, and yes I am using the latest Mamewah version.

I have lurked here for a few months, but just finished my first cab a few weeks ago, and am still working on getting all the software together just right.

Thanks for the info both of you, and I will try both the wrapper linked in the Wiki and Closemul when I get home from work, hopefully one of them will solve the issue.

Edit:  For posterities sake, Closemul knocked it out the box, worked perfectly to bring focus correctly.  I set it up just as shown above, with Future Pinball.exe listed in the closemul ini under program, and passing the arguements as shown.  Thanks again!