Barcio

Great, now it was works perfectly for me too Thanks a lot for your help guys!

Ok Tempest, thanks for you help

Woah, Tempest, thanks to your batch I could rename all of my layouts, uhuh Let me explain With romlister I created a batch in order to copy all of the 3 players and 4 players roms in a temporary directory, than after tweaking a bit your batchfile I could create all of the layouts. This saved me really a lot of time! But.. Now I have another question I think you're going to hate me at this point I now have all of my 3p and 4p layouts with the same names of their corresponding roms in the layout\mame folder (the one designated as the overrides folder by default) but well, the only layout which is always showing is the default mame one. Am I missing some option?

Headkaze it would be really cool if you could add something in Cpwizard, I'm looking forward for the next release to come out, eheh. I (and surely a lot of other people) appreciate a lot your work on such a good piece of software Tempest that batch file is really interesting, but I couldn't make it work.. I mean, if I simply copy the lines you pasted, change my folders accordingly and run the bat it works smoothly, but if I exchange the filelist.txt file with my txt file created with romlist (it's absolutely equal to the filelist created by the batch, it only lacks the zip extension) there's no way it will rename my file, it only lists the same directory or drive error. Well, I think I'll have to wait for another Cpwizard release

Well, that would be great, then I shall wait before creating that 300 layouts! Speaking of my control panel, I don't have a cabinet at the moment: my home is not enough big to accomodate such a piece of furniture, eheh. BUT. Since in the future (don't ask me how far) I hope to live in a more spacious environment, I started building myself the control panel It took me some time, but I'm satisfied with my work, surely I'll post something in the Cabinet's running gameex discussion, even if it still lacks the cabinet

Hi Tempest, don't worry, it's just that after passing through many configurations I didn't even remember which command was linked to which button, so I found more simple to re-install everything, eheh. Well, I immediately looked at my default.cfg because what you said was quite strange, but my mame menu and the file matched perfectly.. I have never had problems using my commands in mame indeed; the problems arise when they are read by cpwizard.. About your last suggestion.. yeah, I know about the mame overrides, and I thought about them as a solution too; with romlister I've already created two textfiles listing the names of roms for respectively 3 players and 4 players games. Now I only have to find a fast way to rename the same CPW layout with 300 different names..

Well, I tried everything you said me to try Tempest, but nothing changes; I even tried a full re-install of both cpwizard and mameui32, I switched to plain dos mame and created my layout another time from scratch, but my layout has always the same problem when spinner or trackball are in use. However I created alternative layouts as you suggested, and now things are really much better, so I decided that now I'm satisfied with my cpwizard layout But now I have another question . I'd like to load a different layout when I'm launching 3 players or 4 players game. Is it possible using Mame keywords? I noticed that mame keyword permit to load a layout based on the kind of control used by a game, but nothing else. I tried using the "misc" option, I selected it and put a string like NumPlayers="4" (this is an example, I tried with a lot of different strings) like the one which is visible in miniInfo.xml, but it didn't work. Am I doing something wrong?

Eheh, well, yeah, seeing things were not working I started trying many different ways, and now I have to say the situation is quite complicated I didn't notice the default.cfg doesn't show the same commands of the mame menu, I'll immediately start following your advices. Don't worry, if I still have problems I shall not hesitate asking help, eheh I'm glad you like my layout design, it took me some time to be satisfied with it, and I have to say I like it a lot too. I took inspiration from the control panels this guy builds. I think they're really stylish, and on his site you can find a useful tutorial to realize that neon glow with photoshop. By the way, I made the background with 3dstudio, photoshop and illustrator; if you like it I'd be glad to send you by mail the plain background or a ready-to-print pdf with the details you prefer as soon as my adsl comes back to life. I'd mail you the full editable photoshop file, but it weighs up to 300 mb.. I'll let you know how it goes with my cpwizard configuration and maybe I'm a bit repetitive, but.. Thanks a lot!

Hi, excuse me if I didn't post earlier but I've just come back from work.. Thanks a lot for your help, I'm uploading the files Headkaze told me to. I included a screenshot of the arkanoid panel, which explains clearly my problem. As you can see only the right controls are displayed.. The cps of games which don'use use the spinner or the trackball have no problem at all, every control is displayed correctly, but when the trackball or the spinner are in use the cps start going crazy. I included my ini files and some config of the games which give me problems, I didn't include every cfg because they're too many and I don't want to confuse you By the way guys, you're really helpful indeed. I really thank you Mameui32_barcio.zip

Woah, my layout is really messed up when opened on your cpwizard .. I think it is a problem of my pc, there must be something wrong or some files missing.. Anyway thanks a lot Tempest, you've been very kind

Ooops, excuse me tempest, I forgot to include the t5 buttons. Well, they're simply the T2 button series downsized. Anyway, I could open my zip and the layout was looked right, but I used the same zip software to compress and uncompress it.. I think the random stuff you saw in my layout were the labels , however I'm including a screenshot of how it looks on my pc. Thank you very much Tempest p.s. I zipped the files with winrar now, they should be ok this time I hope CPW_Barcio_2.zip

Hi, maybe you already know it, but Romlister is a software which can output lists of roms in several file formats and with maaaaany filter settings (controls type, category, screen orientation). I found it because I wished to load a button configuration based on the number of buttons of each rom. Unfortunately scripting is a completely unknown world to me, then the software lies abandoned in my hd.. Well, I hope this link can help. Link: Romlister

Hi Tempest, thank you for your reply. My monitor is classic horizontal, I never thought about using a vertical one for the reasons you stated in your last post I'm attaching a zip with my control panel layout, background and cpwizard ini (I hope these are the files you need..). Thanks a lot for you help!

Hi everyone, this is my first post. I've been using CPwizard for some time now and except some little problem in the first settings I could make it work quite well. I have a problem though .. In my Control panel I have a trackball and a spinner. I'm using Mameui32 and CPWizard 1.60 (I just updated to version 1.65 half a hour ago, but my problem is still there), and at the beginning I configured the option to recognize the trackball and the spinner like one unique mice; then I put in Cpwizard the respective labels (mouse1up/down/left/right for the trackball and mouse1left/right for the spinner) but only one couple of mouse1left/right was shown (the trackball one). At this point I turned on the multiple mice option in mameui32; I configured every control in the mame menu and deleted the unused ones to be sure there would be no conflict. At this point the trackball is assigned as mouse2, while the spinner is named mouse4. Now I re-edited all the labels for the spinner and the trackball, naming them accordingly (mousecode2 for the trackball and mousecode4 for the spinner), but the things got worse . When I preview the CP of games using the trackball or the spinner all the labels assigned in mame to "left" disappear, even the ones assigned to joysticks with keycodes. For example, looking at the arkanoid cp there are these labels: "fire" on button one and "right" on the player 1 joystick, on the analog joy, on the trackball right axys. Label "Left" appears only associated with one useless button on player2's side, and the mousecode4's label never existed in my tests. Now for the spinner I tried using mousecode1 labels, but the only one showing is the "right" one Now, I think I'm doing something wrong, but after a week or two still I can't find a solution; maybe has anyone had my same problem? Anyone knows what's wrong? Apart from my problems I think CPwizard is a really cool piece of software, thank you Headkaze for your hardwork!