MasonTK

I've been setting up GameEx for the past few days on a portable harddrive, that I plan to transfer onto my all-in-one touch screen, when I get it. I've been doing my best to learn myself, without asking, but a there are a few things I can't figure out. 1 - I'm having problems (especially when switching ROMs or emulators--Gens, FCEU, Project64) of the screen flickering, and showing the desktop for a few seconds, before the ROM loads. Is there a way to have this be seamless, or at least a black screen, between ROMs? I have all my emus set with the same resolution as GameEx and my computer. 2 - This one is probably just me being stupid. I can't seem to figure out how to disable the "Configuration" button on the Start Page. Also can't figure out how to disable DVDs, Jukebox, or Play DVDs. And, one more of these... Can I disable "All Games" at the top of the menu? Can't imagine I missed all of these, but anything is possible. 3 - Also can't figure out how to get the screen saver to work. Maybe its because I'm using Photo Snaps (way too many roms to setup vids) and don't have any video paths specified. Would like to see a screen saver of at least the photo snaps (worst case scenario, I setup the Windows screen saver with my snaps folders, and have that run on its own, right?) 3a - If I can't do a SS that way ^, then I'd like to disable that from the menu also, and can't seem to find a place to do that. 4 - I have a few PC games setup as my "Touchscreen Games", and even when I check "no" for "disable info page", it still goes straight to the game. This means I can't set as a favorite, or see the larger preview and game info. Is this because I'm using self-executable games? 5 - When I'm in an emulated game, I can simply hit Esc to return to GameEx. I also have a USB game pad, so its easy to back out. However, in my PC Games, since it'll only be 'touch' and not use a mouse/pad/keyboard, I can sometimes not back out without hitting ESC. Anyone have a Gesture script to return to GameEx? I know someone used a triple click on the bottom right corner to bring up a keyboard, which is awesome, but I'd like maybe the same thing on the bottom left, or somewhere, to return to GameEx. Might be getting greedy on this one. 6 - Last (for now), is there any way to navigate in a 'thumbnail' format for games/menu items? This one is also a stretch, but with a touch screen it would be cool if it operated this way. I'm making my GameEx for two reasons... 1 - So I can easily navigate all of my games when I want to play them. And 2 - I want to have it setup with no keyboard or mouse when I have guests, meaning I will have it in Arcade Mode, with most options disabled. Most of these questions are really for situation number 2. Anything else that is a good idea for an 'arcade' style of play, would be awesome, and I'd love to soak in any info you may have. Sorry to ask so much, but I tried to search. Probably didn't do a great job of it, but again, any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

I've been following this thread a bit, as I'm hoping for the same type of thing on my touchscreen (when it arrives). I've been building my gameex front end on a portable harddrive, and I'm going to copy over when it gets here. I ran this script, and the test works! It's actually pretty cool. My question is, how will this script start? Is there a way for it to open when GameEx is launched, or will it need to be opened manually before each time? I'm not very knowledgable with this kind of stuff, but I would think thats a simple code, right? This would be especially helpful if I ever decide to have GameEx launch on bootups.

I would love to grab a screen that would allow me to fully customize, like most guys here, but unfortunately, we needed a family computer. The one I got has some nice features, and will work great once Windows 7 and the TouchPack is released. Plus, the on-screen keyboard pops up within just about any program, and I would think will work nice with GameEx. Not to sound like a cheap skate, but are there any games that are either; A. Free (and only need a mouse/touch input) or B. a package of games/mini games similar to that of megatouch or anything with a wide variety? I've been checking PopCap, a few other places, even WildTangent, but can't seem to find anything that doesn't charge at least 9.99 a game. Don't get me wrong, that's cheap, but I would rather have 30 good games than 5 great ones.

Visitor Q, Are you using the Dell Studio One 19? Just ordered mine as a secondary for our home. It had some really cool 'home management' software included, so it'll be a family hub of sorts. However, I plan to setup a mean Jukebox/Gaming fronted, hopefully using GameEx, for when people come over. My first thought when I saw this computer on sale was "oh my god, an in home mega touch!" After a few disappointing searches, learning how megatouch software doesn't work with a PC, I was about to give up. Thank God for this site. Let me know if that is the system you are using, so maybe we can throw some ideas around. Especially, which games work best with touch screen (and if you know of any photohunt like games that would work for it). Take it easy.