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Title: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: Wulfster on May 02, 2005, 02:23:05 pm

I have set Mamewah as my default shell under XP Pro, and everything works fine until I exit Mamewah.  When I do, I see a blank Windows background.  I've changed exit_action to shutdown in mamewah.ini with no difference.  Am I missing something?

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: Dire Radiant on May 02, 2005, 02:30:21 pm

Does it work right when you select exit and shutdown from the menu?

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: sc1103 on May 02, 2005, 03:21:34 pm

Forget the exact reason, but apparently that setting refers to an exit through MAMEWAH's menu, so I suggest just exiting through the menu.  Never saw anything about somebody getting it to shutdown by just hitting escape :(

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: JackTucky on May 02, 2005, 03:30:06 pm

My ESCAPE key works like that.

I think for it to work, you have to mess with the windows setting for logon, require password, etc.

Art

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: Wulfster on May 02, 2005, 04:02:59 pm

It works as expected when I exit through the menu, but it doesn't when I use escape.  It's probably a registry setting I'm missing.

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: jcrouse on May 03, 2005, 08:15:01 am

Quote from: sc1103 on May 02, 2005, 03:21:34 pm

Never saw anything about somebody getting it to shutdown by just hitting escape :(

It should shut down completely and turn off the PC if your set the ctrlr file like so:

EXIT_TO_WINDOWS         
EXIT_AND_REBOOT      
EXIT_AND_SHUTDOWN   "DIK_ESCAPE"

Also check your mamewah.ini file in the MameWAH folder. There is a shutdown setting in there that tells it WHAT to do when the above command is executed.

John

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: Wulfster on May 03, 2005, 01:33:49 pm

Changing the ctlr file did the trick for me.  Thanks!

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: sc1103 on May 03, 2005, 07:25:02 pm

Heh.  Once again, Jcrouse proves me wrong   :-[

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: jcrouse on May 03, 2005, 07:54:56 pm

LOL, I didn't try to and am not sure how you were wrong. We're all just trying to help.

Peace,
John

Title: Re: MameWah as Shell Not Shutting Down on Exit
Post by: sc1103 on May 03, 2005, 08:01:43 pm

lol im just kidding around, Im glad ur there to correct me cuz i dont feel like having ppl taking my advice all the time.  its cool im just messing around  :P