CPwizard button problem

[system01]

First off:  HeadKaze - Mad south-side north-west train-face props for all youve contributed for this arcade "fad"!  I find myself using your stuff all the time, and would be spending a lot more time without them (MameCompiler, InstantSheller, CPWizard, Controls util).  Thank you! 

Ive read the app Help, webpage, and searched here...

Now, Ive been messing with CPWizard for about a week now and I have a few noob issues.  I have the layout all squared away and running correctly through MaLa.  But when it comes up the buttons are named 1, 2, 3, etc and no directions on the joystick.  In your help file it shows punch and kick and whatever, and it shows rotate left and right for asteroids, but mine: 1 2 and 3.  The buttons do alpha-out and if I have colors on they change correctly.  I have controls.ini and .xml in the C:\mame folder and have it pointing there.

Also, how does MISC_P1_INPUTTYPE work?  Nothing ever shows up.

Im betting that Im missing one path or file that fixes this all up, but I ant figure it out.

TIA

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[headkaze]

CPW reads controls.xml from it's own Data folder. There are a few things to check

- Make sure your mame.ini is located in your Mame's root folder if your using a ctrlr file
- Use the View->Preview feature to check out some games
- MISC_P1_INPUTTYPE should definately be working. If nothing shows up that sounds like there is a problem with the install. Did you download and run CPWizardSetup.exe?

P.S I didn't write InstantSheller that was written by Tom Speirs

[system01]

- Make sure your mame.ini is located in your Mame's root folder if your using a ctrlr file

Its in there.  But Im not using a ctrlr file anyway.

- Use the View->Preview feature to check out some games

Been doing that, but the output's the same.  Well, the buttons alpha-fade, but I still get 1, 2, 3 and no directional joystick info.

- MISC_P1_INPUTTYPE should definately be working. If nothing shows up that sounds like there is a problem with the install. Did you download and run CPWizardSetup.exe?

Yep.  In fact Ive tried this on 3 different machines.  Ive been working on this on my work machine and my home machine, then when Ive got the layout to a try-able state I copy mame.xml (my layout) over to my cab and try it out.  All 1.90 .exe installs and all with the same results.

Im using mame 127u4 compiled with your compiler with the hiscore diff and the CPW pause diff.  I also modified the 'recommended games' sections in mameinfo.dat to display in correctly in MaLa, if that makes a difference.

Heres a preview from the view>preview menu:

[system01]

Allright, I just got it working...

My problem was I had Dynamic Data Loading ticked.  Thing is, when you uncheck it you have to restart CPW for it to take effect.  Everythings working perfect now.

A couple other things:
Is there a way to make a label invisible?  Id like to make arrow "buttons" that light up/fade around the joystick and I dont want the text to show up.

And are you planning to make labels rotatable?  I have a 2-player cocktail and It would be cool to have the palyer2 buttons facing opposite - even if they might be all grayed out (sucker!).

Thanks a million for looking into this.

[system01]

Answering my own questions here... 

A couple other things:
Is there a way to make a label invisible?  Id like to make arrow "buttons" that light up/fade around the joystick and I dont want the text to show up.

I realize I would just set up different layouts with different pictures and then set the controls filter under options.

All of this finally just clicked for me,  and I see this has even more potential than I realized.  Im now going to run CPW on the fly with pause, but Im also making a special "cpmaker" layout and batch it.  Then I can set up a definable in MaLa to show the game controls (from the pics I batched) as I scroll through the gamelist.

Amazing HK!
<darth vader> The force is strong with this one... </darth vader>

[TheShanMan]

I've written a batch file to create images for mala using irfanview to crop and resize a small portion of my layouts. If that would be helpful to you let me know and I can give you the details.

[system01]

... Im not sure I follow.   Are you taking pieces of your mala layout and using it as a back for CPW controls?

See attached.  I plan on just floating these over MaLa.

[TheShanMan]

No, I mean the CPWizard generated image - taking the part that just shows the main controls. In a sense, zooming in to show just the controls and nothing from the surrounding part of the image. Then I display those "subset" images in a mala definable.

[system01]

Gotcha.  Thanks for the offer but I got what I needed with batching a different layout.

[headkaze]

Oh yeah I broke the Dynamic Data Loading feature last release. I really should turn it off now as I don't think I'll bother fixing it.

PS You can also batch export CP's using CPW.