Video player bugs

[headkaze]

Just tried the video player in GameEx for the first time and found a few bugs. The first bug is that GameEx seems to list some videos twice. It did this with two videos, so two videos were doubled on the list. Second bug is, after I start playing a video if I press ESC to exit back to GameEx it will just exit back to the desktop and close GameEx.

[WTB]

It used to be a problem that the video that appeared twice in the listed had an ".mpeg" extension rather than an ".mpg." I can't remember if it got resolved in GameEx or not; I just changed the extensions. Check out the vid and let us know.

-Matt

[headkaze]

Hmm your right, they are both *.mpeg.

Does GameEx exit for you when you press ESC during video play?

[Tom Speirs]

Hmm your right, they are both *.mpeg.

Does GameEx exit for you when you press ESC during video play?

Hi

The Escape is by design, as GameEx runs on some Arcade Cabinets, basically Escape always quits GameEx normally whatever module or screen your in.

Use Right mouse, backspace, spacebar or click the left arrow button on the toolbar to navigate 'Back' instead.

There is also an option to turn off the Escape key processing in GameEx.

Ill look at the .mpeg issue. Sorry, should have picked that one up earlier.

[headkaze]

Hmm not sure if it should behave that way with ESC. Since ESC is the "universal" exit button, I have a button on my CP dedicated to it. The problem is, if someone plays a video and presses the ESC key, you want them to return to GameEx not exit GameEx nor use the backspace key. Attract mode can use ESC to get back to GameEx so I don't see why it dosn't do the same for video playback.

Also, there should be an option to have ESC enabled, but password protect exiting GameEx or have some dialog to confirm exit. Also there could be an option to use the ESC key as navigating "Back" instead of backspace, so the one key is used as exit and go back a menu. If your in a sub-menu for instance, ESC will navigate back, if your in the main menu, it will ask if you want to exit or ask for a password. That would work much better IMHO and you only need one button for navigating back and exiting, rather than needing two buttons on your CP.

If you have friends over and they use GameEx, you don't want them accidently exiting GameEx *ever*. But there will be times where you want access to the shell for maintenance, so you want to be able to exit GameEx without having to use DisableEscape=True or DisableExit=True.