question for .ahk (module)_ experts

[craiganderson]

hello,

im working on a module. my first attempt at loading multiple disks.

basically the emulator has 4 "slots" for disks.

some games have two disks

i need to load them both. (into drive 1 and drive 2 separately)..which i know how to do individually.....but

some games only have one disk so the module needs to be able to do the following

check to see if game has 1,2,3,4 disks?

if one disk only....thats easy...load it

if has multiple disks ...load them into the right drive (disk 1 in drive 1 etc)

any modules you can recommend i look at to see how to do this?

if anything comes to mind

thanks

craig

[dougan78]

I would look at c64. Possibly.

[dougan78]

Cant you just swap the disks on the 1 drive? What system? I am curious.

[craiganderson]

Sharp mz-2500. It seems like it works if all disks are loaded upon staring emulator. See murder club for an example.

[craiganderson]

My module works perfectly for single disk games. Want to add multiple disk games now

[craiganderson]

What is the standard way to name multiple disks?

[dougan78]

Look dreamcast or saturn xml or c64 xml.

[ghutch92]

You may want to look at Hyperlaunch's multigame feature. https://sites.google.com/site/hyperlaunch2/home/features/multigame

It says it accepts the words disc, disk, tape. It also looks like these must be at the end of the game's name.

[craiganderson]

just fyi

this older version of the emulator

http://www.zophar.net/sharpmzx/emuz-2500.html

(this is the one my module uses)

(much faster) (and some games dont even load on the newer one below)

seems to work better than the newer version

http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/mz2500/

just fyi

[craiganderson]

i think i figured it out

this module (WIP) does the following

if rom contains "(Disk" in its name, it will trim off the last 9 characters (i.e trims off (Disk 1) or (Disk 2) etc

and then loads the trimmed rom name PLUS (Disk 1) into drive 1

the trimmed rom name PLUS (Disk 2) into drive 2

all the way up to drive 4

the emulator doesnt care if the disk doesnt exist (i.e. game is 2 disks not 4)

cool thing is .... you can start with any number disk from hyperspin (i.e. click on disk 2 or 4 or 1 etc) as your starting point...but it puts the correct one into the correct drive

just fyi

so far so good

works pretty good so far

let me know if you see a problem with this that perhaps i am not seeing

thanks

MEmu = EmuZ-2500
MEmuV =  Updated on Website: 10/11/2004
MURL = http://www.zophar.net/sharpmzx/emuz-2500.html
MAuthor = craiganderson
MVersion = 1.0
MCRC = 
iCRC =
MID = 
MSystem = "Sharp MZ-2500""
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; FullScreen: Set fullscreen mode in HyperLaunch HQ "Edit Global Module Settings".
;
; RemoveMenuBar: Enable/Disable Removal of Menu Bar in HyperLaunch HQ "Edit Global Module Settings".
;
; HideMouseCursor: Enable/Disable Hiding of Mouse Cursor in HyperLaunch HQ "Edit Global Module Settings".
;
; Module currently ONLY loads disk images (.d88 is the one tested). 
;
; Does not currently load games that need multiple disks.
;
; BIOS: IPL.ROM and KANJI.ROM are required. Other ROM images are optionally loaded if they exist. See readme.txt file for details.
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
StartModule()
FadeInStart()

settingsFile := modulePath . "\" . moduleName . ".ini"
Fullscreen := IniReadCheck(settingsFile, "settings", "Fullscreen","true",,1)
RemoveMenuBar := IniReadCheck(settingsFile, "settings", "RemoveMenuBar","true",,1)
HideMouseCursor := IniReadCheck(settingsFile, "settings", "HideMouseCursor","true",,1)

7z(romPath, romName, romExtension, 7zExtractPath)

Run(executable, emuPath)

WinWait("ahk_class CWINDOW")
WinWaitActive("ahk_class CWINDOW")

; loading games with multiple disks
If romName contains (Disk
{
StringTrimRight, trimmedromName, romName, 9


Sleep,250
WinMenuSelectItem, ahk_class CWINDOW, , FDD1, Insert
Sleep, 1000
	Loop 	{
		ControlGetText, edit1Text, Edit1, Open ahk_class #32770
		If ( edit1Text = romPath . "\" . trimmedromName . " (Disk 1)" . romExtension )
			Break
		Sleep, 150
		ControlSetText, Edit1, %romPath%\%trimmedromName% (Disk 1)%romExtension%, Open ahk_class #32770
		}
Sleep,450
ControlSend, Button1, {Enter}, Open ahk_class #32770



Sleep,250
WinMenuSelectItem, ahk_class CWINDOW, , FDD2, Insert
Sleep, 1200
	Loop 	{
		ControlGetText, edit1Text, Edit1, Open ahk_class #32770
		If ( edit1Text = romPath . "\" . trimmedromName . " (Disk 2)" . romExtension )
			Break
		Sleep, 150
		ControlSetText, Edit1, %romPath%\%trimmedromName% (Disk 2)%romExtension%, Open ahk_class #32770
		}
Sleep, 450
ControlSend, Button1, {Enter}, Open ahk_class #32770



Sleep, 250
WinMenuSelectItem, ahk_class CWINDOW, , FDD3, Insert
Sleep, 1200
	Loop 	{
		ControlGetText, edit1Text, Edit1, Open ahk_class #32770
		If ( edit1Text = romPath . "\" . trimmedromName . " (Disk 3)" . romExtension )
			Break
		Sleep, 150
		ControlSetText, Edit1, %romPath%\%trimmedromName% (Disk 3)%romExtension%, Open ahk_class #32770
		}
Sleep, 450
ControlSend, Button1, {Enter}, Open ahk_class #32770



Sleep, 250
WinMenuSelectItem, ahk_class CWINDOW, , FDD4, Insert
Sleep, 1200
	Loop 	{
		ControlGetText, edit1Text, Edit1, Open ahk_class #32770
		If ( edit1Text = romPath . "\" . trimmedromName . " (Disk 4)" . romExtension )
			Break
		Sleep, 150
		ControlSetText, Edit1, %romPath%\%trimmedromName% (Disk 4)%romExtension%, Open ahk_class #32770
		}
Sleep, 450
ControlSend, Button1, {Enter}, Open ahk_class #32770
}

ELSE
{
Sleep,250
WinMenuSelectItem, ahk_class CWINDOW, , FDD1, Insert
	Loop 	{
		ControlGetText, edit1Text, Edit1, Open ahk_class #32770
		If ( edit1Text = romPath . "\" . romName . romExtension )
			Break
		Sleep, 150
		ControlSetText, Edit1, %romPath%\%romName%%romExtension%, Open ahk_class #32770
		}
	Sleep, 450
	ControlSend, Button1, {Enter}, Open ahk_class #32770
}


;*******************FULLSCREEN*******************************
If Fullscreen = true
{
Sleep, 555
WinMenuSelectItem, ahk_class CWINDOW, , Screen, Fullscreen
}


;*******************RemoveMenuBar***************************
If RemoveMenuBar = true
{
Sleep, 555
DllCall("SetMenu", uint, WinActive( "A" ), uint, 0) ; Removes the MenuBar (thank you djvj)
}


;*******************HideMouseCursor***************************
If HideMouseCursor = true
{
Sleep, 555
SystemCursor(OnOff=0) 
}



FadeInExit()
Process("WaitClose", executable)
7zCleanUp()
FadeOutExit()
ExitModule()

CloseProcess:

FadeOutStart()
IfWinExist, EmuZ-2500
	WinKill 
Return