A couple of questions about settings

[Evil Telephone]

Greetings! I've been using GameEx for a few months now. Up until recently I was using what must have been a somewhat old version (maybe 6 months old at most). This past week I reformatted my Media Center box and reinstalled GameEx and emulators. I'm having two minor issues.

1. There was an update recently, maybe two days ago. When I auto-updated, my settings file was modified significantly. For example, in many of my emulator profiles, values were inserted that were not there before such as file masks and different directories. It broke all the emulator entries until I went in and removed all that inserted information. Is there a way to lock down certain parts of the settings so that when an auto-update goes through they are not modified? Yes, I could make a backup of the settings file before updating, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a one-click auto-update .

As an amusing side note to that, from what I remember some of the directories had someone's name in it. C:\Documents and Settings\TSpeirs\ if I recall correctly.

2. Before I formatted, I had somehow set up GameEx to NEVER show the menu bar. I set my new installation to always hide the menu bar, but it still appears for 30 seconds after initial load. Was there a setting that I enabled that I've since forgotten to eliminate the menu bar altogether, or is this just a change with the newer version? This isn't a huge deal, but it is much more pleasing to the eyes if it never appears especially since I sometimes switch back and forth from Media Center to GameEx multiple times in one sitting.

Thanks for any information or tips you may have.

[Tom Speirs]

It sounds like you may have been running a version quite old in GameEx terms. New settings have been added to emulators over time, and some settings default to what I have here on my development machine. If you can provide details to exactly what settings changed I will try and fix the issue. Otherwise to answer your question, upon upgrade of GameEx it does backup your current settings in the config folder. Cant quite remember the name of the file name, something like gameex.ini.backup. Just replace gameex.ini with this file. It has been reported on occasions that settings do get changed with an upgrade, but its rare, and something I have not been able to narrow down and fix.

The options for hiding the toolbar where changed a while back (a year or more). The setting your looking for is under display settings. In addition, some themes fix this setting in theme.ini and that overrides.

[fRequEnCy]

It sounds like you may have been running a version quite old in GameEx terms. New settings have been added to emulators over time, and some settings default to what I have here on my development machine. If you can provide details to exactly what settings changed I will try and fix the issue. Otherwise to answer your question, upon upgrade of GameEx it does backup your current settings in the config folder. Cant quite remember the name of the file name, something like gameex.ini.backup. Just replace gameex.ini with this file. It has been reported on occasions that settings do get changed with an upgrade, but its rare, and something I have not been able to narrow down and fix.

GameEx.UpgradeBackup.ini is the name of the file.

[Evil Telephone]

Thanks for the info about the backup file. Very useful.

As for the menu bar (which I now realize is called a toolbar in GameEx): it turns out the toolbar appears when the mouse is moved regardless of what the "Hide Toolbar" setting is at. A bug? Even if the Hide Toolbar setting is set for "Only When Mouse Over" or "Always Hide", it still appears if the mouse is moved at all, even if it's no where near the top of the screen.

Anyways, I was able to get rid of the menu bar by completely disabling mouse input, which is fine for me. For those who want mouse input, but don't want the top toolbar, it looks like that functionality is broken a bit.

Thanks again for the help.