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Do frontends even....
« on: June 23, 2003, 02:35:23 am »
use a mouse? Not do you need one, but can you?
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2003, 08:27:00 am »
Not currently in my FE (although I did add limited support once).

I am not sure about the others, except of course the Windozy FE's.  I suppose it is assumed that everyone will have a joystick in their cab...not everyone has a trackball.

It sounds like you are interested in this, out of curiosity, how would you like it to work?  Either spin the ball to move up/down the games list or have a cursor to control?  I personally quite like the first option...
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2003, 11:13:04 am »
I don't need no stinkin' mouse.  

I thought about adding it to JFront.... it wouldn't have been hard... but since I didn't have a trackball on my cab at the time... I figured I didn't care enought.  JFront is open source so others could add it... or if anyone really asked nicely... I might do it.  
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2003, 11:37:17 am »
The spinning ball idea sounds good to me.
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2003, 11:42:32 am »
Well I actually wont have a trackball, I am hacking apart a wingman control pad and using the analog joystick to control the mouse.....I figured it would be a shame if I did all the work and never really used it lol.
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2003, 11:57:24 am »
Quote from: crashdmj on June 23, 2003, 02:35:23 am
use a mouse? Not do you need one, but can you?
Derek

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www.pacmanfan.com does, You can use the mouse to scroll up /down through the game lists. It also supports joysticks / gamepads.
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2003, 09:27:06 am »
After adding a trackball to my mame box, I was surprised to find that rolling it up and down scrolled through the GameLauncher game list.  I actually like selecting a game this way rather than using the joystick.

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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2003, 11:15:03 am »
I Would really like Mamewah to be able to do this.

It would be cool to scroll through the list by spinning the trackball.

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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2003, 04:29:30 pm »
Dragon King does this... in the frontend.ini you set a mouse axis to "scroll" and it'll scroll the gamelist when you move said axis.  As it uses raw input this time around it works really well with a spinner controller as the fast you spin, the faster it moves!  
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Re:Do frontends even....
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2003, 06:59:06 pm »
The more and more I hear about DK the more and more I am leaning towards using it for my cab. I am going to have to read up on it  :P
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