a n00b, impressed, with some general questions

**Smiff** · August 19, 2005

GamEx is coming along great.

now a while ago customizable control was added, but i can't see how to let two joysticks controls GameEx? i'd also like to customize the sticks' input so both the d-pad and axes can navigate. is there some instruction for this somewhere please someone?

**Tom Speirs** · August 20, 2005

GamEx is coming along great.
now a while ago customizable control was added, but i can't see how to let two joysticks controls GameEx? i'd also like to customize the sticks' input so both the d-pad and axes can navigate. is there some instruction for this somewhere please someone?

Hey Smiff, ill look into mapping all game devices, I do like the idea. Its not possible to do the other thing at the moment.

Could you please email me so I can send you a key for the latest. Your welcome to it.

**Smiff** · August 20, 2005

thanks very much...

**Smiff** · August 21, 2005

here's an idea, maybe - ability to label each path, for example where you add paths for pictures, i'd maybe label D: "CD-ROM" and the mapped network drive "main store" or sommat.. drive letters dont mean much to normal people :/

**Smiff** · August 22, 2005

took me a while to work out that some of my MAME games werent starting 'cos my very long ";" seperated ROM dir path had got truncated.. its not the installer doing that is it? maybe i just slipped.. next release i'll find out

btw Tom your link to http://www.tweakxp.com/article139326.aspx doesn't work?

what's "Form resizing - Restore/Maximize." please?

**Tom Speirs** · August 22, 2005

took me a while to work out that some of my MAME games werent starting 'cos my very long ";" seperated ROM dir path had got truncated.. its not the installer doing that is it? maybe i just slipped.. next release i'll find out
btw Tom your link to http://www.tweakxp.com/article139326.aspx doesn't work?
what's "Form resizing - Restore/Maximize." please?

The configuration application truncates them. I'll look at it.

That enables the Restore/Maximize button on the top right of the toolbar.

If GameEx is full screen, clickig it will make it into a window and vice versa.

Cheers.

**Tom Speirs** · August 22, 2005

here's an idea, maybe - ability to label each path, for example where you add paths for pictures, i'd maybe label D: "CD-ROM" and the mapped network drive "main store" or sommat.. drive letters dont mean much to normal people :/

Ideally I plan to automatically look up the volume label, drive type, or share name and display it when a drive on its own is added.

**Smiff** · August 22, 2005

not sure where to put this, but i have a better integration for VisualBoyAdvance...

what you do is hack the exe with Resource Hacker to map Exit to escape and toggle menu to Enter, then sendkeys {enter} with GameEx, and disable MapKeys. took a couple of goes but now i have it working right

the relevant exe edits are:

VK_ESCAPE, 40002, NOINVERT, VIRTKEY

VK_RETURN, 40263, NOINVERT, VIRTKEY

and the GameEX config for this is:

[Emulator_7]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Nintendo GBA games

TITLETEXT=Gameboy Advance games

StartPageLogo=GameBoyAdvance

ROMFilter=*.zip

RomsInFolders=False

RomPath=C:\Games\ROMS\GBA\

SnapPath=C:\Games\ROMS\GBA\Snaps\

WorkingPath=C:\Games\Emulators\VBA

MapKeys=False

WaitBeforeKeys=1000

SendKeys={enter}

ReplaceDash=True

ReplaceUnder=True

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=False

Debug=False

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=VisualBoyAdvance_EscapeExits_EnterTogglesMenu.exe "[ROMPath]\[RomFile]"

OLDatZip=

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=

CartPath=

voila, seems to be perfect integration

edit: of course, you don't have to use ENTER, just take any key thats *not* escape and that you aren't using for anything else.

**Smiff** · August 25, 2005

as a general point, is it possible to use OpenGL video plugins with GameEx. do you have to use ShowDesktop? is there any way around that, perahaps some very simple wrapper?

**djrobx** · August 26, 2005

An OpenGL->DirectX wrapper ultimately behaves like a DirectX app, so I imagine that would work with "Show Desktop = false" okay.

**Smiff** · August 27, 2005

sorry i didnt mean a full wrapper.. i meant just enough to trick win/gameex into working.. i dunno i haven't thought this through anyone got OGL emus to work without showdesktop? kinda of a big thing isnt it, or do people just not care about seeing the desktop. actually its not so bad since i removed all icons and made it dark blue

**night** · August 27, 2005

or make the background "black" and hide taskbar/icons then it should just look like a black screen ?

**Smiff** · August 27, 2005

hmm black, the abscence of light . the trouble with having lots of black screens is you dont always know which you're looking at

btw, 82 posts each.

i'll try to post something useful next time, but im not having too much trouble with gameex atm.. just waiting for things like customisable menus and multiple controls before i can go much further.

edit: here's something useful. the current VisualBoyAdvance has an auto hide menu option!

Options > Emulator > Auto hide menu

dunno how we all missed that. maybe they added it in v1.80 beta. one step neater for GameEx!

**Smiff** · August 31, 2005

any reason why jump to letter cant work in the start menu aswell?

btw anyone whos just upgrading to MAME .99u6 and wonders why its stopped working, remove skip_disclaimer from command line

the disclaimer now is annoying cos it breaks attract, Sendkeys=o,k - how do you send keys in a sequence?

**night** · August 31, 2005

you you keep post in this tread?? surely you cant be a noob still ? hehe

but i agree with SMIFF`S last question that i would like to know that to

**Tom Speirs** · August 31, 2005

any reason why jump to letter cant work in the start menu aswell?
btw anyone whos just upgrading to MAME .99u6 and wonders why its stopped working, remove skip_disclaimer from command line
the disclaimer now is annoying cos it breaks attract, Sendkeys=o,k - how do you send keys in a sequence?

1. Because its not alphabetic order.

2. Tip: Save yourself a lot of fatigue and pain and set up your pc to be able to compile MAME. Or use an older version.

**Smiff** · August 31, 2005

yeah uh what's with the MAME team seeming to hate its user base? or is that a can of worms not to open.

yeah im still a noob.

alrighty here's a feature i'd really like

ability to list the subdirs of chosen "ROM directory" and use them for the command line for starting an app (instead of the filenames in a dir).

for example, i have my pics in folders & i could start my viewer with Slideshowpath=[GamEx fills this in].

any chance of someting like that pretty please? atm i'm manual adding a "new app" for each set of pictures, but this needs config editing each time. yes i need my own viewer (IrfanView) for various reasons like resampling, picture rotation, Exif tag display...

I think being able to choose whether the app uses filenames or foldernames, would be a very cool option, with many other inventive uses for GameEx.

**djrobx** · August 31, 2005

I think currently, the best way to get GameEx to use directory names is with a map file. I've attached a small .BAT that will create or update the map for you. Extract it to and run it in the directory that you need it for. It will create a dirs.map file.

Then in the GameEx config, set the MAP file to point to YourDir\dirs.map. Use the ROMFile parameter as the folder name for your command line.

makedirmap.zip

**Smiff** · September 2, 2005

thanks very much djrobx i'll try that in a bit.

**Tom Speirs** · September 3, 2005

I think currently, the best way to get GameEx to use directory names is with a map file. I've attached a small .BAT that will create or update the map for you. Extract it to and run it in the directory that you need it for. It will create a dirs.map file.
Then in the GameEx config, set the MAP file to point to YourDir\dirs.map. Use the ROMFile parameter as the folder name for your command line.

Rob, you seem to be producing a lot of cool tools/acceseries for GameEx. i think we should probably host these tools on the GameEx web site, as there pretty decent. What do you think? I can give you an FTP with sub folder to post new versions also.

How about it? Do you want to do a quick right up of your current tools. I believe theres two out there?

**djrobx** · September 3, 2005

Sure, that sounds like a good idea. Better than flooding your forum with attachments. I'll let you know when I'm ready - work decided to slam me for the holiday weekend. Nice!

**Smiff** · September 8, 2005

alright that worked, here's my tweak, a version that works with folders with spaces in their names aswell

dir /b /ad > baredir.txt
echo junk > dirs.map
del dirs.map
for /F "delims=" %%s in (baredir.txt) do echo %%s "%%s" >> dirs.map
del baredir.txt

some issues:

1)you still get the play game screen! perhaps we need a way to turn this off on a per-emu basis.. (for now i've just changed the text to "Launch"!

2).. er n/m i fixed 2 so nothing serious remaining. just need to script up some folder update/file sorting commands.

this is great tom and djrobx thanks, batch files are still not my best thing..

idea: how about a way to reverse alphabetical order the rom lists, again per emu option? then i'd have most recent photos at top (dirs start with date in Ymd format)

**Smiff** · September 11, 2005

how about an option for back/ or "return to previous menu" button added at the bottom of each menu.. like MAME! people have trouble getting back in the menus.

also i'd like some way to show the controls on the gui somewhere?

**Smiff** · September 13, 2005

ok , just came across a problem. if you add a game to favourites (<note the english spelling and then the rom name changes, gameex doesnt validate before launch that the game still exists. this leads to hung app in background-type nastiness.

edit: im talking about other emus, not MAME, where gameex refreshes ROM list each time... obviously MAME needs the listupdate run.

maybe check all the favourites exist when opening favourites menu and delete any that don't

**Tom Speirs** · September 13, 2005

ok , just came across a problem. if you add a game to favourites ( and then the rom name changes, gameex doesnt validate before launch that the game still exists. this leads to hung app in background-type nastiness.
edit: im talking about other emus, not MAME, where gameex refreshes ROM list each time... obviously MAME needs the listupdate run.

Yeah, I cater for the yanks far more than I should

Very low priority, but perhaps Ill add a file.exists check before launching.

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