[RESOLVED] GameExtender - Display Screenshot Only?

[scunnyutd]

I have enabled the gameextender with the hope of simply showing a screenshot of the current state of my actual cabinet as a picture on a website.

1) If i connect to the actual ip & port via lan or web, i initially get a picture that if I click on it allows me to control my cabinet remotely. Although a great feature, can i limit this to prevent a random user also visiting this IP address and doing the same? (ie. if they right click my website image they can copy the url and then just connect to IP:PORT and Bingo!)
1.1) When the cabinet goes into attract / screensaver the online controls stop reacting, can an ESC key be added or amended to gain access to the cabinet again?

2) The actual reason for the topic! Can I just have gamex show the actual cabinet screen / game screenshot rather than the cabinet, control panel and statistsic images? Every time i refresh i get one of those four images. (By linking the website to this image, I remove the option of being able to click and control gameex)

For the actual website image, I specifically link to this static page / url - http://mydomain:PORT/builtin/getimage-gxre640x480endre.png (I figured out by changing the 640x480 you can manipulate the image to be any size you want it to be)

Every time I load this page / refresh I get the updated image from the cabinet but would like this to be purely a specific cabinet screenshot or in game screenshot. ( No panels, cabs or stats images)

Thanks in advance!

[Tempest]

You can use Marquee Magician written by myself, IMagic by Adultery, or CPWizard by Headkaze to do what you want. If you only want to display one image, IMagic is probably the way to go.

[Adultery]

Nope I killed that project. Sorry.

[Tempest]

Why? Is there a replacement?

[Adultery]

Not exactly, but many of the features I made in iMagic got revised and built into Game Info. At some point I decided to work with GameExtender instead of against it.

iMagic was cool but it was unstable unfortunately. Plus MM already does a more than adequate job of this.

[scunnyutd]

I have set Marquee Magician up, but how do MM's generated images to be viewed from online? With game extender enabled I still just see standard gameex images. With it disabled i see nothing as there are no options to set an Ip or port address anywhere in MM? Am I doing something wrong or missing something? Thanks

[Tempest]

You need to set up your second monitor as an extended desktop, then use MM to display images on it. Turn GameExtender off.

Not to be short by my typing skills leave something to be desired, and I'm not sure how much info you need.

Feel free to ask as many questions as you like.

[Tempest]

I edited the first post for MM, and deleted the instructions on how to set it up as they were outdated. Follow the instructions in the included pdf file and you should be good to go.

[scunnyutd]

Hi, I don't use a second monitor, I'm wanting to display images from the cabinet to a website. Specifically, just a snapshot of the actual game being played rather than the stats, control panel etc that gameextender displays.

Thanks

[Tempest]

Sorry, I totally missed what you were trying to do.

MM is only for use with multiple monitors.

[Draco1962]

@skunnyutd - This looks to be a feature/enhancement request. You may want to post it here. It is possible someone may be able to do something through a plug-in, however, there may be a need to add additional core code work to make such a plugin possible.

[scunnyutd]

Managed to get this figured out if anyone is interested.

Created a windows bat file that runs every 10 minutes as a scheduled task under XP.

The following software needs to be installed:
1) auto_screen_shot 1.0.5.3 - takes an actual screenshot of gamex / screensaver / actual game
(Runs on windows start, doesn't interfere with gameex and compresses image to under 60kb)
2) NcFTP 3.2.5 - uploads the screenshot to website by FTP

All programs run standalone and are accessible by command line for use in bat file.

*.bat file content:
cd c:\arcade\ftp (Dir where batfile, programs and images are stored)
del c:\arcade\ftp\arcadelive.jpg (Deletes old screenshot if it exists)
ren *.jpg arcadelive.jpg (Renames your newest screenshot, this will overwrite the current image on your FTP)
ncftpput -u yourftpusername -p yourftppass yourwebsite.com path/on/website local/pathto/image (FTP's the image)
# eg. ncftpput -u jimmy -p jimmypass gameexisgreat.co.uk httpdocs/arcadepics c:\arcade\ftp\arcadelive.jpg (Example)
exit

Add the bat file to system scheduler and every 10 minutes your website/blog can be showing an actual screenshot of your arcade machine.

[Tempest]

That's awesome! Thanks for posting your solution.

Edited April 24, 2013 by nullPointer
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