PlugIn - Game_Info.Mame_Info.Controls gives strage results

[cupid]

Hi Tom,

(should be "strange results" in the topic... can't edit it anymore...)

Great work, nice that we can add plugins now.

I just programmed my plugin a little bit. And Msgboxed Game_Info.Mame_Info.Controls for some games. It gives me only ";joy8way;" for 1942 (as example). For '88games i got ";layers=;" (????).

I expected "8-way Joystick+joy8way" for 1942

and Just Buttons+button for '88games

1. Could you please explain what I can expect in this struct?

2. Could you please Add some fields to the Game_Info struct according to Controls.ini

[1942]

gamename=1942 (set 1)

numPlayers=2

alternating=1

mirrored=1

tilt=0

cocktail=1

usesService=0

miscDetails=

P1NumButtons=2

P1Controls=8-way Joystick+joy8way

P1_BUTTON1=Fire

P1_BUTTON2=Loop

P1_JOYSTICK_UP=Up

P1_JOYSTICK_DOWN=Down

P1_JOYSTICK_LEFT=Left

P1_JOYSTICK_RIGHT=Right

[88games]

gamename='88 Games

numPlayers=2

alternating=0

mirrored=1

tilt=0

cocktail=1

usesService=0

miscDetails=This is a 4 player team type game where 2 players compete each time

P1NumButtons=3

P1Controls=Just Buttons+button

P1_BUTTON1=Run

P1_BUTTON2=Jump

P1_BUTTON3=Run

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom,

(should be "strage results" in the topic... can't edit it anymore...)

Great work, nice that we can add plugins now.

I just programmed my plugin a little bit. And Msgboxed Game_Info.Mame_Info.Controls for some games. It gives me only ";joy8way;" for 1942 (as example). For '88games i got ";layers=;" (????).

I expected "8-way Joystick+joy8way" for 1942

and Just Buttons+button for '88games

1. Could you please explain what I can expect in this struct?

2. Could you please Add some fields to the Game_Info struct according to Controls.ini

[1942]

gamename=1942 (set 1)

numPlayers=2

alternating=1

mirrored=1

tilt=0

cocktail=1

usesService=0

miscDetails=

P1NumButtons=2

P1Controls=8-way Joystick+joy8way

P1_BUTTON1=Fire

P1_BUTTON2=Loop

P1_JOYSTICK_UP=Up

P1_JOYSTICK_DOWN=Down

P1_JOYSTICK_LEFT=Left

P1_JOYSTICK_RIGHT=Right

[88games]

gamename='88 Games

numPlayers=2

alternating=0

mirrored=1

tilt=0

cocktail=1

usesService=0

miscDetails=This is a 4 player team type game where 2 players compete each time

P1NumButtons=3

P1Controls=Just Buttons+button

P1_BUTTON1=Run

P1_BUTTON2=Jump

P1_BUTTON3=Run

Hi Cupid, I thought you'd be interested in the plugins. I remember you requesting something like this a long time ago.

As for the above, this is something I need to do in GameEx as well as the plug in system. What HK and I decided to do for now though is read controls.ini or nplayers.ini yourself, just by implementing an ini reader that accesses the files in ..\data....

[cupid]

Yes indeed. I'm very interested as you see :-)...

I'd like to get my Ultrasticks to work...

Nplayers seems to me ok... (but i dont need the infos from it in the first version of my plugin)

OK, I will read controls.ini myself.

Thanks for your support.

[headkaze]

Hi Cupid

Attached is some source for reading in controls.ini. It's pretty fast too (faster than the standard API functions for reading ini files).

ControlsDat.zip