HELP! No Snaps, Marquees, Cabinets, ect in Lazarus

[rgardjr]

I can't get any snapshots, flyers, cabinets or marquees to show up.  I have Lazarus running perfectly on my laptop, but no luck on my mame cab with the snaps, marquees, cabinets or flyers.  The specifics:
Running window98 and lazurus is running the default skin at 640x480 60hz 32bit
mame directory e:\mame with flyers, cabinets ect in standard locations ie e:\mame\snap
the artwork is unzipped and in .png format and displays fine with mame32
have the correct changed the line in the dir.ini file Primary Artwork Dir=e:\mame\

Are there any other places to configure for artwork besides dir.ini?  The frontend launches games perfectly and works great otherwise.  Any ideas?
Thanks-
Rick Gardner

[Howard_Casto]

You want to make sure you registered the program by running the bat file in the dlls dir as it controls the png viewing.  

to my knowledge you are only the second preson every to run into this problem and as of now it's still unresolved.

sorry

[rgardjr]

I know that I ran the bat file, but maybe I'll run it again.  Also, do you think that it might be worthwhile to install on a different drive?

[Magnet_Eye]

rgardjr: I have the same problem, and have never found a solution. I hope you do, since I can't use this FE at this time. It's too bad since I have a skin for it!  

Let me know if you figure it out!

[Howard_Casto]

Yes I think installing it on another drive might be a good idea... also moving the artwork files to another drive might help to.  Read the thead above, I believe all of this might be related to your file system, in which case I can compensate.  

Sorry guys, but now that it's happened to more than one person hopefully we can find the common thread and fix it.

[rgardjr]

Here's what I tried tonte with no luck.  Moved mame application and artwork to my c: drive.  Installed lazurus on c:\ drive.  Once again, Lazarus runs great, but no artwork.  A quick question about what the regsvr32.exe does.  I'm guessing that it's suppose to add a line to the registry, but wasn't sure.  If this is what it does can you tell me where to look in the registry to make sure it's working?  I searched the registry for the paintx.dll string but I didn't find it anywhere.  Maybe I could add it manually?
Thanks-
Rick

[rgardjr]

I FIXED IT!!!  So after I made the last post I checked out the registry on my laptop and found multiple entries for paintx.dll and answered my own question.  All I did was to download regsvr32 from microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q267279&
and then registered paintx.dll and comdlg32.ocx with the run command manually not using the bat file.  I fired Lazarus back up and had all the snaps, flyers, cabs and marquees.
WOO HOO!!!
Thanks for the help guys!

[Howard_Casto]

Glad to see you got it working.
Here's what's most likely happened.....

The batch file I made for you assumes some things...

I assumes you haven't got a file named paintx.dll already.  It tries to copy, but if it's already there it doesn't.  Since you had multiple entries, I'm assuming you had a very oold vesion of it on your machine for whatever reason.  In this case you have to copy and register them manually.  

Normally you can just copy all of those dlls/ocx's, ect to the root lazarus directory and it will use vb's temporary registry feature.  Unfortunately, vb checks the registry entries first, so if you have an old version it still searches for it.  

There's not much I can do for this using the current install method, but probably upon next version a tranditional windoze install program will come with lazarus.  

[rgardjr]

Glad to see you got it working.
I assumes you haven't got a file named paintx.dll already.  It tries to copy, but if it's already there it doesn't.  Since you had multiple entries, I'm assuming you had a very oold vesion of it on your machine for whatever reason.  In this case you have to copy and register them manually.  

Just wanted to clarify this because I obviously wasn't very clear in my previous quote.  The registry entries that I found were on my laptop-a completely different machine.  I was just wanting to confirm that there were some registry entries that were supposed to be created when the regsvr32 ran.  When I searched the registry on the computer in my mame cabinet there were no entries for paintx.dll.  So paintx.dll and comdlg32.ocx were not registered by the runme.bat.  So the big problem in my case was that the two files were not successfully registered.  Once I manually registered these files then things started working.  

The funny thing is that I had copied the mame snaps, marquees, ect to my c:\ drive and made a clean lazarus install on this drive as well.  I configured Lazarus to look for the artwork on my c:\ drive and mame.exe and roms on my e:\ drive(this is the drive I have dedicated mame).  This is how it was configured the first time I got up an running with the snaps, ect.  So thinking that the first Lazarus install I put on my e:\ drive should now work I fired it up, but still didn't have the snaps, ect.  I played around with the dir.ini pointing it to the artwork that I had copied to the c:\ but still no luck.  Finally I just copied the lazarus install from my c:\ and overwrote the one on my e:\ drive.  Now everything worked and is happy with everything being on the e:\.  I'm trying to be as thorough as possible in my description because I know that there's one other person that's had the same experience as me and I'm hoping to shed some light.
Thanks-
Rick

[bhille]

I have this exact same problem!  I even tried running from the command prompt, but they just won't register.      Can I manually put these entries in the registry?  Are there a lot?

Please help  

[bhille]

I got it!    Here's what I did.  I was looking on M$ support site and it said something about these files needing to be in the path.  So I edited the autoexec.bat and used the following path:

path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\windows\system;c:\windows\system32

Then I ran the runme.bat.  Still didn't work.  So, at the DOS prompt I moved to the c:\windows\system32 folder and ran it manually, it worked fine!  I thought that was strange...

If I ran the regsvr32 file I got from HC or from the M$ support site by typing "regsvr32" I got a dialog box with an OK button (no text at all).  If I went to the c:\ directory and ran just regsvr32 so Windows had to look in the path I got a dialog box with a bunch of text.  I looked on the system, and sure enough there was a regsvr32.exe that HC includes and one in the c:\windows\system folder.  Here's what's interesting.

Description, Filename, Size (bytes), Date
Working: regsvr32.exe, 40,960, 04/23/99
Not working: regsvr32, 9,720, 08/23/01

The one that worked cameon the system, the one that didn't work I got in the Lazarus install zip and from M$ site.

Just thought I'd pass the information along.  Let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks.  Brian