Simple System Wheel Creator

[Trnzaddict]

Currently at work. Just tried it here on a Windows 7 system and same result. It asks for the Hyperspin folder and the Imagamagick folder and than nothing. Could it be looking for a specific file such as a dll is not finding it?

Or could some software be interfering with it?

I tried it in safe mode. Same result, however when I tried to shut down windows I got a pop up message with the following:

.NET-BroadcastEventWindow.4.0.0.0.2bf8098.0:WheelCreator.exe-Application error

The exception unknown software exception (0xe0434352) occured in the application at location 0x75e8c42d

Styphelus, I had this same problem last night. I banged out like 3 wheel sets then it just stopped working. What remedied it for me was deleting the wheel creator folder in app data and changing the name of the folder the wheel creator was in. I'm on windows 8.1 x64 BTW. Restarted the app, selected directories and all was fine.

Another bug I found out is the app does NOT like when you turn shadow off. If you do, it processes the wheels but doesn't output anything, but it's easily remedied by leaving shadow on and just turning the level down to 1.

A question: Does anyone know how to force the program to bang out the wheels in all Capitals? I'm making a PSP & PS2 Wheel set with the official PS2 font, and the wheels would look alot better if they were drawn in Caps instead of Caps then lowercase.

Since the program reads the xml, I tried converting the database XML text to all caps in Notepad++, but the app throws an error when I do that. So right now I'm trying to find the correct syntax to find and replace text in the game name quotes ONLY, but I can't nail it.

[horseyhorsey]

Does anyone know how to force the program to bang out the wheels in all Capitals?

Could add option for that but for the time being you could try a font that is capitals only.

Since the program reads the xml, I tried converting the database XML text to all caps in Notepad++

Well, yeah it should work like this to. Changing just the descriptions to CAPS?

I had pondered putting this into the other app. That is using hyperspin media now, it may be worth doing and should solve those dodgy issues.

[craiganderson]

.Net installed?

ImageMagick installed?

Ok...pretend you are talking to a complete idiot. (that would be me )

Is this the right "Net"?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40779

Is this the right imagemagick? (the top one?)

http://www.imagemagick.org/download/

thanks

[craiganderson]

Ok I have imagemagick and net installed

inside the "simple wheel" folder

when i click on the .exe file...nothing happens at all

when i click on the .application file i get this

any help is appreciated

[craiganderson]

Anybody? I really want to get this working.

Thanks in advance.

[Trnzaddict]

Anybody? I really want to get this working.

Thanks in advance.

You are running the wrong exe Craig. Run the other one in the folder and it should boot.

[craiganderson]

thanks for the response

here is what my folder has in it

i have tried them all...and get nothing .... except what i posted above

after i installed the "net" and the "imagemagick" programs...do i need to do anything with them? i didnt do anything other than install them.

[craiganderson]

Yes, I have .net version 4.5.1 and ImageMagick. I got it to start up twice but it asks to select a folder (what folder would that be?). Than it asks to pick the hyperspin folder and than asks to pick the imagemagick folder and when I click the ok button it disappears. It doesn't start again unless I restart the computer. I've tried on Windows 8.1 64bit and Windows 7 32bit. Same exact result.

Edit: Never mind - Got it working. This is great for my DOS games. Thanks.

how did u get it working

when i click on .exe...nothing

i have net and imagemagick things installed

thanks

[craiganderson]

i think i got it working

i went to where horseyhorsey saig to look at the config file

and then erased the folder that was there

and it seems like it is working now

thanks

[craiganderson]

so far so good?

so what is the agreed upon size for wheels?

400 x 175?

thanks

this thing is awesome!

thanks

[dougan78]

400x175 yes

[craiganderson]

edit

[horseyhorsey]

Sorry, I had never subscribed to this thread and was unaware of your help requests. I have been doing a fair bit of work on a newer version of HLM-Check and this wheel creator will work with that eventually.

[craiganderson]

its working pretty good for me

thanks

craig

[baddeolv]

so far so good?

so what is the agreed upon size for wheels?

400 x 175?

thanks

this thing is awesome!

thanks

Just a side note on this, it's easy to assume that having only one of these ratios in line is ok. The correct way to size the wheels is this.

1. Image/trim

2. Image/image size(keeping aspect, most of the time only one dimension will fall in line)

3. Pad the image with empty pixels using image/canvas size) so that you are left with an image with EXACTLY 400x175 dimensions.

[craiganderson]

awesome program

thanks again

one request if you don't mind

would love to be able to select colors by hexadecimal or decimal code

thanks either way

just mentioning request

very pleased with program

thank thanks thanks

craig

[craiganderson]

i love this program

so easy to fill in the gaps of wheels until they are done

looks so much better than the default

thanks again!

[gigapig]

Couldn't get it to start either, tried 32 & 64 bit versions of imageshack, Renamed the Simple Wheel folder, deleted this settings; nothing.

But I must have had an old version in my Apps folder, I tried it and it worked.

It made the Amiga Demo wheels I wanted (and worked with no shadow) but the damn Amiga Demo names are too bloody long, LOL. AbsoluteInebriationv11Fairlight&VirtualDreams

Some are OK.

[Styphelus]

Glad you got it to work. One day this program stopped working and that was it. I've never been able to get this to work again. I would remove the (USA, Europe) from the name and create several different versions with colours and fonts and than mix them all up for variety.

[horseyhorsey]

Strange, I can see you have the "regions" in , with the wheel name on the image.

There's a filter that removes any regions from the description, well it's supposed too, first time I've seen that.

It made the Amiga Demo wheels I wanted (and worked with no shadow) but the damn Amiga Demo names are too bloody long, LOL. AbsoluteInebriationv11Fairlight&VirtualDreams

I'm almost done fixing into the the HLM-Check program. This shadow problem has been addressed now, someone did mention about this before a while back.

[craiganderson]

Strange, I can see you have the "regions" in , with the wheel name on the image.

There's a filter that removes any regions from the description, well it's supposed too, first time I've seen that.

I'm almost done fixing into the the HLM-Check program. This shadow problem has been addressed now, someone did mention about this before a while back.

yeah that confused me as well

but didnt bother me that much

hopefully they will get replaced with REAL wheels sometime soon

[oldhag270]

Been trying to get this to work for several hours now with no luck, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[gigapig]

Not working how? You could try HLM-CHECK, which has now got Simple Wheel built in.

If you don't want to do that I have an old version of Simple Wheel that works for me.

www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?31037-HLM-Minter-Helper-Checker-Whatever

[oldhag270]

Thanks giga looking into that now.

[horseyhorsey]

Thanks giga, will edit first post for future users.