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Title: Do frontends even....
Post by: crashdmj on June 23, 2003, 02:35:23 am

use a mouse? Not do you need one, but can you?
Derek

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: Minwah 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...

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: Lilwolf 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.  

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: AlanS17 on June 23, 2003, 11:37:17 am

The spinning ball idea sounds good to me.

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: crashdmj 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.
Derek

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: PacManFan 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

EmuTron
www.pacmanfan.com (http://www.pacmanfan.com) does, You can use the mouse to scroll up /down through the game lists. It also supports joysticks / gamepads.
-PacManFan

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: Wade 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.

Wade

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: meta87 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.

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: Howard_Casto 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!  

Title: Re:Do frontends even....
Post by: crashdmj 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
Derek