brienj

The Marquee and Title images are not all the same ratio though, those are the ones I am using for Image2.

Ok, guess my idea for a theme is dead now, or I come up with several hours of free time to resize a bunch of images. Thanks for the answer. Maybe I'll make a program to resize them all automatically, or find one already made.

I understand how to resize the object, I mean is there a way to change how an image is displayed inside of it so it stretches and fills the area completely. For example, the images are showing up in the correct location, however, they are not all sized the same, so some of them do not fill up the entire area, and I do not want to resize thousands of images, that is a lot of work.

The program just changes the registry entry of your shell. You set the program to launch in the "Launch On Exit" setting in the "Tweaks/Performance" settings of GameEx. Once GameEx exits, it will then launch my program. You would click the Submit button and it would then temporarily change the shell to Explorer (or whatever you want it to temporarily use), then it would launch the temporary shell and Windows would then start. Then it would change the shell back to GameEx or whatever you set it to for the Shell To Use. Then after a reboot, GameEx would start as your shell instead of Windows. All my program does is change registry entries for the shell and launches Windows for you automatically, then changes the shell back. From what I've read, Windows 8 uses the same registry entries, so there shouldn't be any problem. You can always hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and start the task manager which would let you start the registry editor by typing "regedit" in the run box and then manually change the shell entry yourself and reboot. That is if Windows 8 has a Task Manager, I don't know. Windows 8 is only good for touch devices, on a PC, it's dumb, at least in my opinion.

I've figured out what was wrong. I selected "Change View" and it showed correctly. Now my problem is figuring out if there is any way to change the Image Object properties so it will stretch images to fill the area. Also, I do not like the menu spanning the screen, and cannot seem to change the layout for the menu.

Ok, that explains that showing in the log. Now I have to figure out why it won't load the new theme and loads the default one.

I wanted to play around and design a new theme, but I am running into a big problem. Anytime I convert any existing theme, or even create my own new theme, and try to use Version 4, GameEx will refuse to load the Version 4 theme, and will always load the default theme. I checked the log file and noticed this line "Version 2 Theme being used. Loading." So is there some setting to allow Version 4 themes? Any of the pre-made themes work when I select them in the theme selector, but if I try to make my own Version 4 theme and select it, it will not work.

Thanks. I've made a bunch of programs for modding/hacking games, so this was a cakewalk. For many years I've wanted to build a MAME cabinet, and finally decided to make a pedestal type and hook it to the TV, and amazingly, I have my wife's full support on also building a pinball cabinet, no matter the cost. So if I come up with anything else that can help with what I'm doing, I'll probably make another program again, and I can share it with you guys too. Like I said before, if you have any ideas for other tools to make, I can see what I can do.

I don't know if the program has been accepted yet, or if I can only see it until it's approved, but here is the link to the program - http://www.gameex.info/forums/files/file/68-shell-starter/

I posted this is the GameEx forum, but this can also be handy to use with PinballX. Here's a link to the thread in the GameEx forum - http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/15939-app-created-program-to-easily-change-windows-shell/

I have only tested it with Windows 7, and it "should" work with Windows XP or Vista as well. I have no way to test it in Windows 8, but people could test it in Windows 8 and let me know if it works. I will do that shortly, thanks. Yeah, I use PinballX as well, and I am in the process of building an Arcade Pedestal and a Pinball Cabinet as well. That's one of the main reasons I did this, since I want to hide the OS, but also want to be able to access it easily if needed.

SHELL STARTER - VERSION 1.0 I created a program that can easily change your Windows Shell to GameEx, or any other program you choose, and will also re-enable the Windows Shell temporarily so you can reload Windows instantly and reset the shell to the previous state after loading Windows. I have GameEx as my Windows Shell right now, but it was not very easy to exit GameEx and access Windows if I needed to, and so this program was made to do everything automatically for me. I set up GameEx to launch this program on exit. The "Shell To Start" is the shell you want to temporarily start. I suppose you could start another shell besides the Windows explorer shell, but this is what I use it for. The "Shell To Use" is the shell you want to become active after you reboot the computer. The program can set this value without actually starting a new shell by clicking the "Only Set As New Shell" button. This is the button you can use to set the shell to GameEx the first time. If you click the Submit button, then the temporary shell will start, and the new shell will be set. If you click the Exit without Submitting Changes button, then nothing will happen. I was wondering how I could submit the program to you to let people use, as I no longer have a website for my creations, and would like this to be available on your site for everyone to use if they wish. Thanks for making this great frontend, and if anybody has any programming request and would like more helpful tools like this made, just let me know.