NEWS: GameEx 10.50

[Tom Speirs]

2nd April, 2010 - GameEx 10.50

The freezing issues reported are now fixed. A big thanks to Jeremy (Frequency) for helping me with that. We both put a lot of effort in.

In addition there is a now a new in game menu with gameex that can be called up when running MAME, Daphne and emulators. You can view control panels, artwork and instructions and then either resume or exit the game. This is one of those dream features in a front end, and I intend to extend it in upcoming releases. As always please give your feedback.

The video and DVD player has also had a few user interface improvements.

[headkaze]

Just wanted to post about this new feature which sounds an awful lot like CPWizard in it's functionality. With dual screen games some people have Mame display the secondary screen on a secondary monitor (games like Punchout). Mame can be quite a pain to minimize and maximize in these types of situations. I've spend a tonne of time to get it right. Emulators such as Project 64 are even worse, because if you minimize it externally it will not maximise again properly.

Also a neat trick to pause and un-pause Mame you can send the following:

To pause

#define WM_USER             0x0400
#define WM_USER_UI_TEMP_PAUSE         (WM_USER + 6)

PostMessage(hWnd, WM_USER_UI_TEMP_PAUSE, 1, null);

To unpause

PostMessage(hWnd, WM_USER_UI_TEMP_PAUSE, 0, null);

Be aware though you can't use Mame's assigned pause key to trigger this otherwise it will pause and then unpause very quickly and the unpause message will not work. I believe you use "L" to do this, so if people leave "P" as Mame's default then the above should work fine.

I know we talked about integrating some of CPW features into GameEx so I'm guessing this is the start of something like that. Should be a cool feature as CPW is quite popular. Perhaps I could help you get Command.dat display working in GameEx? That would be even sweeter.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks Ben.

That would be great if we could work together on that.

[headkaze]

Thanks Ben.

That would be great if we could work together on that.

Np, just sent you some stuff

[fRequEnCy]

2nd April, 2010 - GameEx 10.50

The freezing issues reported are now fixed. A big thanks to Jeremy (Frequency) for helping me with that. We both put a lot of effort in.

In addition there is a now a new in game menu with gameex that can be called up when running MAME, Daphne and emulators. You can view control panels, artwork and instructions and then either resume or exit the game. This is one of those dream features in a front end, and I intend to extend it in upcoming releases. As always please give your feedback.

The video and DVD player has also had a few user interface improvements.

Thanks for the new release Tom! Hope we got it all sorted out.

[Brian Hoffman]

Wow, I cant wait to try it out.

Thanks to everyone for all your hard work and dedication.

BH

[Adultery]

Problem:

when I turn GameEx on, it gets stuck between most played and the top navbar (home, view, exit, etc)and won't scroll down to the other options. I don't know why this is happening, but unless I select Most Played and back out, I can't scroll down in the list of choices.

Also, when I try to update my MAME game list, it gets stuck at reading listinfo.dat 25%, maxes out my CPU, and doesn't seem to be making any progress. Also, attract mode keeps falling back to the main menu. This may or may not be related to the latest build of MAME which I just created using Headkaze's compiler. I tried rebuilding the exe and it runs fine using the command line. If you guys need it I'll post the log for you.

[fRequEnCy]

Problem:

when I turn GameEx on, it gets stuck between most played and the top navbar (home, view, exit, etc)and won't scroll down to the other options. I don't know why this is happening, but unless I select Most Played and back out, I can't scroll down in the list of choices.

Also, when I try to update my MAME game list, it gets stuck at reading listinfo.dat 25%, maxes out my CPU, and doesn't seem to be making any progress. Also, attract mode keeps falling back to the main menu. This may or may not be related to the latest build of MAME which I just created using Headkaze's compiler. I tried rebuilding the exe and it runs fine using the command line. If you guys need it I'll post the log for you.

Please do post the log in hopes that it may show something. As in get stuck....can you be more specific? Does it crash? Do you get a "not responding" response? Please give more detail. As far as the other issues, I'll test later tonight after work. Thanks Adultery!

[Tom Speirs]

This is fixed in 10.51. The MAME issues are most lilely down to the build.