[RESOLVED] Backglass - No Score Visual Pinball

[lees1964]

Not sure how to proceed :/  (thank you for your help with this though!) 

[Mike_da_Spike]

16 minutes ago, lees1964 said:

Not sure how to proceed :/  (thank you for your help with this though!) 

If I understand , you got 2 different issues :

1 -that visual pinball gets an error (undefined variable?

2- exit button doesnt work

For issue 1, i should copy the files over from the vp install and overwrite all (maybe first copy the directory over to a save location, so you can fall back)

For issue 2, i Should check if the button is still working in windows. If so, assign it to the front end again.

If that all is set, maybe check your memory/cpu if it is not maxed out during play of a table

[lees1964]

Update - I dsiconnected my USB ipac2, and physically switched the wires from the two cabinet buttons that were mixed up in VPX (and everywhere else), and it STILL does the same thing - Inexplicable!  The vbs script that I had been attempting to open that resulted in an undefined variable for the left flipper, now won't do ANYTHING when I click on it.  I attempted to open several other .vbs script files and none of them would open.  I downloaded the latest pinballX (which was 7 I believe), and once the files were extracted in a folder outside of PinballX, I copied over everything and let it rewrite the files to the new one (looks like there was only a two day variation in the file properties but I overwrote them anyway.  Again, no change. 

  What I find SO odd is that the ONLY thing I altered was an in-game editor in visual pinball.  I also think I may have messed something up when the one game froze because I pushed about every key on the keyboard to see if I could close it out.  My ipac2 seems to be working correctly in every other aspect BUT the blue button (escape - quit).  When I go into preferences/configure keys setting in VPX, If I Click on the button to change the input for "quit", when I press the escape key on my keyboard, it puts an "A" in the box.  I'm completely puzzled. 

  I think that the fact that the buttons (the blue button and the left coin button) react the same (switched) in VPX, FP and PBX, even though I didn't change ANY settings in ANY of those programs (not intentionally - and I didn't go INTO the controller settings on any of them until after the buttons got mixed up), should tell us something.  I just don't know WHAT it tells us, lol.  Additionally, the fact that I physically switched the wires from both buttons and reconnected them to the other's spot on the ipac2 board, should also point to something pretty specific.  Lastly, the fact that I now cannot even open a .vbs file, should not only tell us something, it's a bit troubling. 

  Mike, I believe the escape button IS working in windows (kind of a tough one to test as it doesn't show up in notepad).  If I try to assign it to the front end, do I need to go in to the PinballX settings to do that?  The reason I ask is that I don't think I did that when I first set it up.  I think it used the VPX controller configuration by default.  I've got a BUNCH of memory, and a quick check in task manager shows that I'm good there. 

[Mike_da_Spike]

33 minutes ago, lees1964 said:

Mike, I believe the escape button IS working in windows (kind of a tough one to test as it doesn't show up in notepad).  If I try to assign it to the front end, do I need to go in to the PinballX settings to do that?  The reason I ask is that I don't think I did that when I first set it up.

Pinballx button setup, should be done via settings.exe in your pinballx directory.  Go to joystick mapping, click the exit emulator and assign your ipac button to it. The normal exit can aldo be assigned to the same button if you like to prefer that

[scutters]

@lees1964 Are you running jok2key or similar? (from your vpx config it looks like you only have keys mapped). A bad config in joy to key mappings might be the cause of your button issues. If that is the case then i'd try mapping joy buttons directly in pbx / vpx and turn off the joy to key input mapper.

[lees1964]

Thank you BOTH for replying and trying to help me with this!  As always, I appreciate it SO MUCH!  OK, so I'm actually at work right now (I'm the boss, so I can get away with communicating about my pinball cabinet ) but I wanted to respond right away, because you BOTH may be onto something here!  Mike, I will go into the PBX setting and configure the exit button in that program as soon as I get back.  I'm hopeful that might work because I don't think I tried that earlier.  Scutters, I have/had joy2key, but it isn't running (at least it isn't showing up in the hidden icons box like it used to).  Perhaps it WAS running before and I just never checked because I didn't think PBX or VPX used it?!?  And maybe setting it up again would put things back the way they were? 

  I remember having a very difficult time getting my cabinet buttons to work in Visual Pinball, and THOUGHT that I had adjusted something in the VPX preferences area, but it IS possible that I mapped the keys in PBX and it got written over somehow?  I am pretty sure that the input settings in PBX settings are all still on default.  I guess the one thing that sticks with me that I can't shake, is that every other cabinet button works EXACTLY like it did after I set things up (all except that exit button and coin button being switched).  When I first set up the controls through visual pinball (or possibly through pinballX) the buttons did NOT work, and after mapping them out (in whichever one I used - wish I could remember - I'm OLD) they worked correctly.  Since they are all STILL working correctly (except those two), I have to believe that the programs (PBX VPBX and FP) are all still getting that configuration from SOMEWHERE, but why/how did that particular config file get only two buttons switched?  It's got my mind working overtime, lol. 

[lees1964]

SOLVED!!! (though I'm not entirely sure what it was that did it - maybe a combination of things, lol).  I think that what actually did it was going back into the PBX settings and configuring the keyboard entries to match the buttons (JUST LIKE YOU BOTH SUGGESTED - HELL YEAH!!!!).  You guys just amaze me.  Seriously.  When I think I have a situation that even YOU guys probably won't be able to help with, YOU FIGURE IT OUT EVERY TIME!  And you do that through without ever even seeing the machine, AND you manage to understand what my problem is even though I am TERRIBLE at explaining it!  Geniuses, the BOTH of you!  Seriously.  Thank you both, and I mean that.   

[scutters]

Thanks mate, glad you're up and working - now you can enjoy actually playing! 

(but make sure you get those working settings backed up!)

[Mike_da_Spike]

As @scutterssaid, its good you are up and running.

If you like vpx, and you want a level higher... take a look at vpe. Still in development,  but will bring us the reality to your cabs !

 

Not sure if you build your cab yourself and whats in it, but , check SSF as wel. SSF is surround sound feedback. Not very expensive (my upgrade costed me arround 100 euros a couple of years ago)

And another thing that brings your cabinet a level higher is to invest in DOF with lights and toys. Dof is direct output framework and can be used to trigger lights, toys (like solenoids, blowers, knockers, bells etc) during game play. 

But as Scutters said, just enjoy your cab now and play with it