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I have no idea, if it plays okay in the Theme Editor it should play okay in GameEx. hmm is it being copied okay to your themes MEDIA folder as bak.mpg? I didn't think the custom CP layouts were implemented in GameEx yet. But Tom's mentioned he was thinking of doing some Theme Editor stuff. Though there are a few other higher priority stuff that will be done first. I will talk to Tom to see if he's interested in adding more controls for the CP then. I'm sure you'll agree that there is no point in me adding support for more buttons in the Theme Editor if Tom dosn't support them in GameEx

Hey Nologic, Howard on BYOAC made a good point about using ProcessClose (), which is not a very clean way to close an app. It's probably best to try the SendMessage with WM_CLOSE command first, then after a timeout check if it's still around and then use ProcessClose(). Just thought I'd mention it since I thought it was a good idea.

I know what you mean, I was writing an ActiveX plugin for MCE so you could control CloneDVD in the MCE interface, unfortunately my code worked fine for a standard ListView control but CloneDVD used a custom one. So the standard messages like LVM_GETITEMTEXT didn't work. I gave up on it in the end.

As far as I'm aware the features on the drawing board at the moment are TV support, Setup Wizard, Search and Theme Editor which will possibly include Mame background support and emulator layout support and perhaps CP layout support. That's my general gist on whats on the adjenda for the next few releases. Of course it's up to Tom as to what gets done and in what order.

Perserverence is key in emulation. And patience! But thats what makes this hobby such a challenge. Glad to see you got your problem sorted

I'm not sure what you can do with AutoIt like does it have the ability to click menus and enter text in text boxes (ie. SendMessage API)? You can use Spy++ to get all the necessary messages required to imitate practically any input from form controls. So say you have to select the "Edit" menu then click the "Enter Code" sub menu and type a code into a textbox and click the okay button - all those messages can be mapped to a single key using either AutoIt or a custom written program. So this is why Atari is asking for more details on the steps required to achieve what you want. With all the useful AutoIt scripts written by Nologic lately, he should be able to help with creating a script to make it easy to do what you want.

Getting pretty good at those AutoIt scripts there Nologic Just a couple of suggestions; perhaps you could include the Create_Ini.exe version for people who don't know how to compile the scripts. And second, why not have the actual INI files for each game in an INI dir contained in the zip. That way it works out-of-the-box.

Outter glow works much like a stroke but can often be better for some images like logos when your trying to change a logo's background from white to black for example. The edges might be anti-aliased to white and you want to make it look like it's anti-aliased to a black background it can help with that. For example, I used it for the GameEx logo which came from the website with a white background and changed it to look anti-aliased to a black background.

Quality themes there firebrand, keep up the good work. As for finding game icons, I would recommend using Google image search, just type in the the names of the systems or related words and you should be able to get some good images from there. Look forward to your end results P.S You have done really well with the transparancy in the character images, shows you have some good Photoshop skills there. If I didn't know any better you're using an inner our outter glow to make a nice black strip around the edges. Cool trick that one especially for doing logo's in GameEx.

What theme are you using?

Howards Generic Command Line Wrapper comes pre-configured for Zinc and allows you to launch a game using it's ROM name instead of the number. This means you could do away with your batch file and run it directly using [rom].

Have you made sure all your paths for Mame are setup correctly in the Config program?

Have you done an "update list" in GameEx? You need to run that for GameEx to create a new list everytime you update Mame.

1. Uninstall any codecs you have installed currently using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. These include codec packs you may have installed (Eg. K-Lite, Nimo) or any official DivX or Xvid codecs. This is a recommended step because codecs can conflict and cause problems with each other. 2. Download ffdshow and run the executable after it's downloaded. 3. Just go through the installer and leave the default options. 4. Reboot machine (not entirely necessary, but I say do it anyway) What ffdshow is, basically, a codec pack (audio/video compressor/decompressor pack) containing many different formats including XVid, DivX, AVI, mpeg etc. etc. GameEx is known to support this codec pack. Using the incorrect codecs may result in undesirable results. For example, if you have video previews that are in DivX format and you have the official DivX codec installed from DivX.com, when GameEx goes to play the video, GameEx will minimize leaving you with a blank screen. With ffdshow installed we can at least rule out one variable that may be causing video issues in GameEx. It's a good idea, and I have added links to download ffdshow in the GameEx Setup Wizard (and I'm not sure about licensing issues by having ffdshow included with GameEx - that's something for Tom to decide), but the problem is when people have DivX or XVid codecs or some other codec pack installed. I think I'll leave it for now and just provide a link and perhaps a brief explaination as to what ffdshow is.

It's a very common problem about the ffdshow codecs Luckily I don't get sick of saying the same things over and over

There are heaps of apps that can do that. Do a search on Google for +daily +wallpaper +changer +random things like that should bring up something. Also, you can use Tom's Instant Shell util to completely hide windows desktop and icons.

Don't use jpeg, use png

I would try limiting the work GameEx does in the background. Perhaps try turning off the CP viewer? Could be a bug of some sort, so it's probably worth trying to track it down. Perhaps you could download ProcessExplorer and check out the CPU usage of GameEx while running MAME.

If the 7z format is anything like the zip archive format, you have to decompress all files in the archive to access one file.

Have you got ffdshow codecs installed?

I think he's asking for two separate favourite lists, one for "his" and one for "her". A feature I think that has been asked before but I don't think you can do at the moment.

I think SunFly karaoke discs have the mp3/cdg combo files. You can often find them for $2 shops at the markets.

Yeah I tend to agree (and looks like Tom's pinned the FAQ), but also too many pinned topics looks ugly. Tom: Perhaps you could move the "If GameEx is sluggish or slow read this" topic into the FAQ as a question "How can I improve the performance of GameEx".

You should uninstall all codec packs like klite and install ffdshow.

Nice work Tom. But what are the support files?