Ability to edit ?

[Brenry]

Posted this a month ago in theme editor thread and didn't get anywhere. Is the theme editor locked down to cater just to people who want a media center look for tvs ? I would rather keep my arcade cabinet looking like an arcade system, and don't want time, menus, etc etc to be displayed. But havent been able to get anywhere even with the full screen video mode playing, the delete key will not remove all that stuff in the gui theme editor. Please help! What am I missing. I would rather not have on screen control instructions either. I plan on incorporating that into my printed bezel design on the cabinet itself.

Posted 09 November 2009 - 04:49 AM

Trying to edit these pre-set themes. Can I just simply delete fields.. as in.. all together? I really do not want a media center.

Here's my plan. Have a simple corny simple centered text menu with early 90's arcade text style. And lets say I select mame. Well break to full screen video previews. I dont want time, FE taskbar, game text windows, info... none of that. at all. Just the video playing, with the game logo overlayed, and a blinking gif image below saying .. oh .. "PRESS 1P START". And by moving the joystick (as if there was a menu visibile but not to the user), it would simply change the video and on to the next game logo.

I'm really just going for a minimalistic near-authentic arcade look with the video full screen playing, no menus, dumb animations.. nothing. Just something like you walked up to a game and it's blinking at you press start.

Possible? Because I cannot delete or disable objects. Just move the fields around. I know you can do full screen by manually changing view with fe loaded, but I can't find out how to edit THAT part of the theme and get rid of all the menus/text.

[Tom Speirs]

Posted this a month ago in theme editor thread and didn't get anywhere. Is the theme editor locked down to cater just to people who want a media center look for tvs ? I would rather keep my arcade cabinet looking like an arcade system, and don't want time, menus, etc etc to be displayed. But havent been able to get anywhere even with the full screen video mode playing, the delete key will not remove all that stuff in the gui theme editor. Please help! What am I missing. I would rather not have on screen control instructions either. I plan on incorporating that into my printed bezel design on the cabinet itself.

Hi, you should be able to turn all that off apart from the menus (although you can use the fix to emulaotr option in the advanced config). You need to go into the settings/options in the theme editor to do this and use the chackboxes.

If your referring to the MAME game control panels you can turn that off in the config apps.

Cheers.

Tom.

[Brenry]

Great thanks. Didn't know those options were embedded. Was trying to tackle it like a WSYWIG editor.