Grouping Pinball Emulators

[gromit]

Thank you for a great Pinball frontend! I have it setup to front Future Pinball, Pinball FX2 and Visual Pinball. There are about 200 tables in total listed. Is there a way to have 3 groups on the main page representing the 3 Pinball emulators which, when clicked, will show only their tables? It would be much easier than scrolling through 200 tables. For example, if I wanted to play a Pinball FX2 table, I could click on that and just scroll through Pinball FX2 tables.

If this feature is available now, could you please post a link to the info?

Thanks!

[Carny_Priest]

Here's some documentation.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?/topic/13736-PinballX-Documentation/page__view__findpost__p__137121

Not entirely up-to-date, but the bits for managing subgroups (secondary wheels) should still be useful info.

[Draco1962]

As an alternative, I use the Page Forward and Back keys and take advantage of the Table Names in the .xml files. On my pincab, if I press either button assigned to Page Forward or Back, it takes me to the beginning of the particular group of tables based upon how I have the tables named in their respective .xml files.

For example, my Pinball FX2.xml tables have the following categories preceding the individual table names:

Marvel Pinball - TABLENAME

Star Wars Pinball - TABLENAME

Zen Studios - TABLENAME

Zen Football - TABLENAME

Pinball Arcade - TABLENAME

Now, when I boot the cab, the tables are grouped according to the above, The only issue I have is that the Pinball Arcade tables will appear between Marvel Pinball and Star Wars Pinball. This is really just a cosmetic issue for me since I can page to the next or prior group of tables. Between all, I have close to 200 tables, but at least using this method, I don't have to have separate custom .xml files and have to drill down to only load one group.