PinballX and Sub-Folders?

[Spacegoogie]

As simple as the title, Why does it seem like it's so hard to get PBX DBM to read subfolders? 

I cleaned up all my tables and made subfolders for about half my tables that needed different Screen.res files.

I can not get the subfolders to be recognized. Going crazy here.

 

Thanks!

Edited February 2, 2023 by Spacegoogie
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[Draco1962]

When reporting an issue, please attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files for initial review.

[Spacegoogie]

Sorry Draco1962, I was not thinking it was an issue just unsure of how to do it.

 

PinballX.ini log.txt

[Mike_da_Spike]

I never tried using subfolders for visual pinball in PinballX, so not sure if it is supported

I know 100% that DBM doesn't support it (yet). 

Maybe stupid question,  but why do you need differrent screenres.txt files for differrent tables ? 

 

[Spacegoogie]

24 minutes ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

I never tried using subfolders for visual pinball in PinballX, so not sure if it is supported

I know 100% that DBM doesn't support it (yet). 

Maybe stupid question,  but why do you need differrent screenres.txt files for differrent tables ? 

 

some pupvideos go on fullDMD and I keep B2s backglass, some pup videos seem small so I swap the two. With that, I send the backglass to the  fullDMD  with a custom screenres file. Some tables with slight adjustments, depending on the table b2s, b2s with full dmd, puppack, and so forth.

I have fun with this and just experiment with different setups. the otherday I removed 2 monitors from a 4 monitor setup, so Im working with a 2 screen setup, my backglass is a 27" 4k in portrait mode using that as Topper, Backglass, DMD, and FUllDMD as the RTX card rescales all correctly to full screen otherwise windows cuts off the top and bottom portion of screen.  Just fun and rewarding when you tinker around and come up with ideas to change things and say, hmmm could I get that to work?  Then making those ideas work on screen successfully, oh makes me tingle lol. But it  does looks awesome. I have a small border around the frames so it looks distinctive, its just a trip to see.

[scutters]

Not that it helps for the use of sub folders (i've never tried that either), rather than using subfolders (and i assume a different a screenres.txt file in each) could you use the ScreenResTemplates to create tablename.res files in the same folder instead? (see https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass) - might be a workaround for you.

[Spacegoogie]

10 hours ago, scutters said:

Not that it helps for the use of sub folders (i've never tried that either), rather than using subfolders (and i assume a different a screenres.txt file in each) could you use the ScreenResTemplates to create tablename.res files in the same folder instead? (see https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass) - might be a workaround for you.

🤔Scutters, that's an idea! I will try as soon as I can. Thanks for the idea.

[Spacegoogie]

Gave it a shot but unfortunately, that did not work.

[scutters]

41 minutes ago, Spacegoogie said:

Gave it a shot but unfortunately, that did not work.

Hmm, not sure on that, it should do. Think that functionality was added recently to B2S Server so maybe you need to update?

[Spacegoogie]

2 minutes ago, scutters said:

Hmm, not sure on that, it should do. Think that functionality was added recently to B2S Server so maybe you need to update?

I'm all up to date on everything. You think it would.

[Spacegoogie]

Too bad it's just not as simple as checking a box "check subfolders". lol.

[scutters]

Just to be clear - you've moved a table back from a subfolder to the main 'tables' folder, and then created a tablename.res file in there as well? 

If you launch the table from VPX does the tablename.res file have any effect on the backglass then?

(i know this is a bit off the off topic from the first post about using subfolders and more of a B2S topic now, but if a workaround can get you by then it's a result. If the B2S tablename.res file doesn't work from VPX then i'm afraid that need raising as an issue on vpforums or github)

 

[Spacegoogie]

20 minutes ago, scutters said:

Just to be clear - you've moved a table back from a subfolder to the main 'tables' folder, and then created a tablename.res file in there as well? 

If you launch the table from VPX does the tablename.res file have any effect on the backglass then?

(i know this is a bit off the off topic from the first post about using subfolders and more of a B2S topic now, but if a workaround can get you by then it's a result. If the B2S tablename.res file doesn't work from VPX then i'm afraid that need raising as an issue on vpforums or github)

 

I did just that but with a few tables just to be sure. No change.

[Spacegoogie]

On 2/1/2023 at 5:19 PM, Draco1962 said:

When reporting an issue, please attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files for initial review.

Working!😁 Well the B2S file. So all my screenres. files are .txt, I noticed you said .res.

I tried that and BAM!, worked. Thank you again, Now where were you last week when I spent days making folders for all my tables

But.....how do we get PinballX to read subfolders?

10 hours ago, Spacegoogie said:

🤔Scutters, that's an idea! I will try as soon as I can. Thanks for the idea.

 

[scutters]

2 hours ago, Spacegoogie said:

So all my screenres. files are .txt, I noticed you said .res.

I think how B2S works is it'll look for a tablename.res file first, then use the screenres.txt file if that isn't found. So keep the screenres.txt file for your default settings.

2 hours ago, Spacegoogie said:

But.....how do we get PinballX to read subfolders?

That would need to be a feature request (https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/22259-pinballx-enhancementsfeatures-requests/).

There is another option though but it would require some work as well, create different systems in PinballX for each of your subfolders and set the Tables path for each system to the subfolders you have.

 

[Spacegoogie]

9 hours ago, scutters said:

I think how B2S works is it'll look for a tablename.res file first, then use the screenres.txt file if that isn't found. So keep the screenres.txt file for your default settings.

That would need to be a feature request (https://forums.gameex.com/forums/topic/22259-pinballx-enhancementsfeatures-requests/).

There is another option though but it would require some work as well, create different systems in PinballX for each of your subfolders and set the Tables path for each system to the subfolders you have.

 

I got a workaround going, I grabbed my backup game list and all tables are showing once again with xxx numbers also showing obsolete, but the tables all show up together and do launch.  This is interesting that pinballX will load the tables in the subfolders but pinballx does not see the subfolders.

[scutters]

2 hours ago, Spacegoogie said:

This is interesting that pinballX will load the tables in the subfolders but pinballx does not see the subfolders.

Not really sure what you mean by that...  but hey, glad you got a workaround going!!