How to delete Sub Menus in game ex

[mzhulk]

I will be building a vertical mame with arcade monitor, and arcade vga card. I was playing with the configuration and I only wanted to be able to see the game list and snap shots, but I donot want to use Game Launcher Mode becouse than it puts the game snap shot in the background. is there a way to remove the sub directories "Sort by year,discription, type,Manufacturer" that is displayed above the game list.

Thanks

[bkenobi]

You could probably do that in 1 of 2 ways.

1) Edit the theme you like using and remove the text box that shows the categories you described. This might not work as I think GameEx assumes they are there and will break if not. Another way would be to move them off the screen or see if there's a disable option on it. I'm not a theme expert, so I can't really help with this technique.

2) Don't specify a path for the catver.ini file. This is where most if not all of that data comes from, so if you don't include it, GameEx won't have the data to display. This is the easier method and is more likely to work without problems. You will probably still need to edit your theme of choice to remove the box where this stuff existed in the background image, but that is not required.

Now, if you just want MAME games, you can setup GameEx to make MAME your start menu and then disable EVERYTHING else. If you want to have other emulators as well, I would suggest disabling anything that you don't want to use and turning on 'Flat Menus'.

[mzhulk]

The theme editor does not have a delete so you cannot get rid of the menu box, you can change the location but cannot delete it.

[bkenobi]

Like I said, I've only tinkered with the theme editor a bit. I soon realized that other people are a lot more talented with constructing themes than I am. Mine worked, but it looked like crap, so I gave up and used a premade one. There are a lot of experts with the Theme Editor that could help with that direction if you need it.

[headkaze]

Maybe try positioning the menu 0,0 with a width and height of 0,0?