CP Display Intermittent

[Endaar]

Hi All,

I can't figure this one out...

I have CP Wizard setup and working. The majority of games properly display the CP before GameEx loads MAME, but some do not. However, once in MAME, if I open CP Wizard and view the CP, it displays correctly. I suspect this is something stupid I'm missing, and would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Endaar

[Endaar]

OK, I looked into this a little further. For some games, GameEx simply doesn't call CPWizard when launching MAME. Tom, what triggers GameEx to launch CPWizard? I'm assuming it's one of the controls files somewhere but nothing obvious stands out.

Thanks,

James

[headkaze]

OK, I looked into this a little further. For some games, GameEx simply doesn't call CPWizard when launching MAME. Tom, what triggers GameEx to launch CPWizard? I'm assuming it's one of the controls files somewhere but nothing obvious stands out.

Thanks,

James

The latest version of CPW has an "Auto Show" feature which means it will actually show when Mame is launched without the need for GameEx to send it parameters to show. I have not got any feedback from this feature so it could be buggy, I haven't had alot of time to test it unfortunately.

[Endaar]

Hi headkaze - I tried out the latest version, and for the most part the auto-show seems to work fine. If you set the show delay to zero though, the program generates an error message.

This is still not as neat of a solution as when GameEx shows the panel, but it is certainly an option. I really haven't had enough time to test things more to try and figure out what's going on with GameEx.

Thank you for all of your work on CPWizard, it's a great program.

Endaar

[Endaar]

I figured this out on my own. Apparently GameEx needs to see both a romname and gamename in controls.ini in order for it to call CPWizard.

Endaar