How to successfully update PinballX // Backglass image not displaying

[Rainman]

Hi all, first of all, thank you for this amazing frontend. I was a long time Hyperpin user but then decided to swith to PinballX (mainly because its being actively updated) and I love the frontend so far. I'd like to thank the programmer for this sweet little piece of code.

Hope you can keep it up!

Now for my actual question which may sound a little bit newbish, but how do you successfully update PinballX without loosing the predefined configuration options? I'm using an older version and I'd like to update to 1.51... now is it just a matter of running the installation file and overwriting every file in the PinballX install directory?

Thanks for your help!

[Lyanheart]

I just asked this myself the other day

Just download the current install file and run it. It doesn't override any of your current settings, but it's usually a good idea to go through the setup wizard and check everything to make sure.

[Rainman]

  On 7/18/2013 at 2:04 PM, Lyanheart said:

I just asked this myself the other day

Just download the current install file and run it. It doesn't override any of your current settings, but it's usually a good idea to go through the setup wizard and check everything to make sure.

Thanks Lyanheart! Got that!

Now, one more thing... when I start the table, table loads fine, dmd too (on my 3rd monitor) but the Backglass image disappears... hm.. Is it supposed to be this way? Hyperpin leaves the image on the backglass while playing the table.

[Lyanheart]

No, it's not supposed to be that way... I've never had the problem so not sure what to tell you. In another thread you mentioned about the cursor staying on the screen, too, so it might be related to that. Wish I could help more

[Rainman]

After spending the whole afternoon figuring out what went wrong I finally fixed the "problem". The thing is, I was using Hyperpin and when I installed PinballX I just copied Visual Pinball.xml to the PinballX database as it turns out, PinballX has it's own (btw awesome) Game Manager where you can hide the backglass. For some reason, the backglass was set to be hidden so I just had to change "show backglass: true" . Now that made my day.

Another thing, about the pointer... I fixed it just by changing my W7 Visual Style from Classic to Aero (win7 default) and it fixed itself. Anyhow... PinballX runs smooth and is way more reliable than Hyperpin on my machine. Kudos to the developer for this great product... keep up the good work , and of course, looking forward to donate to keep the project alive and kicking

[Allan1]

thx you