WinIpac question

[rlehm]

I looked at the IPac software, and see how you can reassign buttons and save over the default panel layout, but then how do I get my computer to recognize this (program button?), and how can I make a new file to be placed in the mame/ctrl folder?

[8way]

Don't know about other FE's, but MaLa can reprogram the Ipac layouts on the fly. I don't think MAME alone can do it.

[rlehm]

Don't know about other FE's, but MaLa can reprogram the Ipac layouts on the fly. I don't think MAME alone can do it.

I'm not looking to have Mame program WinIpac. I am looking to reprogram my control panel layout using WinIpac. I think I know how to do this (Never know until you actually try tho) but I don't know how to save the file that is placed IN Mames cntrl folder. That is what I am asking to do. I want my computer and all other emulators to also recognize the changes, and not just mame and a FE. I assume after programming the control panel differently you save the file, and thn click program. This would then make sure your computer recognized the changes which will help in Mame, but I'm unclear as to how to create the file that is placed inside of Mame's "ctrl" folder. Any help with that would be awesome.

[8way]

Well first of all you don't place the the layout file in the MAME crt folder, well you can but you don't have to. OK to program it with WinIpac software, all you do is create your button layout, assign the buttons, then go to File --> Save Panel As... Save it somewere, then just click on the "Program" button at the bottom of WinIpac. Then you can create as many layouts as you want and save them. Now what i was saying about MaLa being able to reprogram your ipac on the fly is, lets say your playing MAME and now you what to switch over to your SNES emulator and you like your buttons to be assind differently from MAME. Well that's exactly what you can tell MaLa to do. So when your playing SNES you have your specific button layout, then when you switch to MAME it will switch to your MAME button layout. If the frontend does not support this feature you would have to manually open up WinIpac software and reprogram the ipac each time you switched emulators. I hope this clears things up.