HyperMarquee

[sevenseal]

Placement Holder of Speech Tutorial with HyperMarquee 0.4.15

 

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[Garion]

you can do resize of the image to fit the windows that you made... you can do a full stretch, uniform... plus more

thanks for your reply but I think maybe I didn´t explain well. My english is not native (as you can read).

 

there is a difference between align an image in a window vs fill a window with a image.

[danwelsh]

Quick teaser.

This is completely configurable.. (a possible display). Post yours to share inspiration!

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High Score can disappear after a certain amount of time of your choice to leave marquee artwork alone... (like any other window feature)

Antos, could I have high score show for just a few seconds for the game selected layered on top of active game marquee then disappear? And if so how would I implement this?

[sevenseal]

Antos, could I have high score show for just a few seconds for the game selected layered on top of active game marquee then disappear? And if so how would I implement this?

go to text behavior tab and on the portion that is scrolling text, in the top middle there is a dropdown menu select auto close on complete

[danwelsh]

Thank you sevenseal

[MydknyteStyrm]

Im having a bit of trouble with HM. I've noticed a lag in loading marquees when switching on the wheel. I enter a game, play, exit and I lose the Marquee, showing my desktop BG. Then when I move the HS wheel to another game, the marquee pops back up. Then above all when I exit HS, HM still stays open. Thanks for any help you can provide.

[sevenseal]

Im having a bit of trouble with HM. I've noticed a lag in loading marquees when switching on the wheel. I enter a game, play, exit and I lose the Marquee, showing my desktop BG. Then when I move the HS wheel to another game, the marquee pops back up. Then above all when I exit HS, HM still stays open. Thanks for any help you can provide.

if you use EDS's ipc method of pipe or pipe(cli) for your instances of hypermarquee, you can limit the number of close filter to just 2,4 so that hyperMarquee is not constantly closing...

other important things to look for are your relay time used on EDS (it is in the global settings) by default it is set to 2000; you might put it lower like 1500 and try it that way... higher for more stability

[MydknyteStyrm]

I'm using HyperEDS and the settings that came already installed for HM

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[sevenseal]

I'm using HyperEDS and the settings that came already installed for HM

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it alright to change the default setting... change to what you happy...

also remember to update to the latest version... there will be a new coming soon as well so look forwards to that

[MydknyteStyrm]

I tweaked the settings, but the only problem I have now is that when I exit an emulator back to Hyperspin, its as if my HM disappears, and I see the desktop wallpaper. Once I move the wheel one game, the Marquee comes back. I dont understand.

 

My settings in HyperEDS are

Hyper Marquee - Pipe - false MAME-MASTERCONTROL "[game]" "[system]" - MAME-MASTERCONTROL - 1,3,9 - 2,4,6,11

[sevenseal]

I tweaked the settings, but the only problem I have now is that when I exit an emulator back to Hyperspin, its as if my HM disappears, and I see the desktop wallpaper. Once I move the wheel one game, the Marquee comes back. I dont understand.

My settings in HyperEDS are

Hyper Marquee - Pipe - false MAME-MASTERCONTROL "[game]" "[system]" - MAME-MASTERCONTROL - 1,3,9 - 2,4,6,11

take out 4,6,11 in your close filters... please look at your eds setting and change that...

please look at the event numbers button... it will tell you what the number represent for

[danwelsh]

okay Antos and Sevenseal I have a question....hope it's in the right thread, what I want to achieve is have an image show for my marquee (already done)....plus a text scrolling the entire time HS is running at the top of my second monitor but as a separate HM instance....and also an overlay showing high scores on the marquee image (which I have already asked about).....my question is will 2 instances of HM be taxing on my system very much? If i'm right I think I have to add the other HM i'm wanting to show up as a separate instance to EDS?

[sevenseal]

okay Antos and Sevenseal I have a question....hope it's in the right thread, what I want to achieve is have an image show for my marquee (already done)....plus a text scrolling the entire time HS is running at the top of my second monitor but as a separate HM instance....and also an overlay showing high scores on the marquee image (which I have already asked about).....my question is will 2 instances of HM be taxing on my system very much? If i'm right I think I have to add the other HM i'm wanting to show up as a separate instance to EDS?

nope, i run 14 instances of HM on a old machine, and i dont run into issue at all...

yes you are correct, every instances requires another app entry in EDS

sometime try, thats how you see wonders...

[Antos]

okay Antos and Sevenseal I have a question....hope it's in the right thread, what I want to achieve is have an image show for my marquee (already done)....plus a text scrolling the entire time HS is running at the top of my second monitor but as a separate HM instance....and also an overlay showing high scores on the marquee image (which I have already asked about).....my question is will 2 instances of HM be taxing on my system very much? If i'm right I think I have to add the other HM i'm wanting to show up as a separate instance to EDS?

 

The only time I have seen instances taxing the system was when using a dotted marquee font with shader and scrolling. But most fonts have no notable impact on your CPU or GPU.

 

"If i'm right I think I have to add the other HM i'm wanting to show up as a separate instance to EDS?" yes.

[Antos]

thanks for your reply but I think maybe I didn´t explain well. My english is not native (as you can read).

 

there is a difference between align an image in a window vs fill a window with a image.

 

I speak French or English, your choice as far I am concerned.

As of now, if your image is smaller than your HM window, it will be centered. No options to align it to top, left, right or bottom other than doing it manually (which is possible and simple to do).

[MydknyteStyrm]

take out 4,6,11 in your close filters... please look at your eds setting and change that...

please look at the event numbers button... it will tell you what the number represent for

That did the trick. Thanks!

One other question, on certain emulators like Model 2 and TTX, the main screen resolution changes to 720p or other. My main monitor is 1360x768. What will end up happening is HM gets shoved over to the right a bit, throwing off the marquees that load up later. Is there a way to lock this in place? Thanks!

[sevenseal]

That did the trick. Thanks!

One other question, on certain emulators like Model 2 and TTX, the main screen resolution changes to 720p or other. My main monitor is 1360x768. What will end up happening is HM gets shoved over to the right a bit, throwing off the marquees that load up later. Is there a way to lock this in place? Thanks!

to be honest, that is not hypermarquee nor EDS issue, it something related to launcher or emulator you use.

if you use rocketlauncher, might want to look into your module setting for you system... if not check your emulators for resolution to maintain your screen size?

sometime it help to use window mode instead of fullscreen mode due to resolution issue.

[danwelsh]

Problem with displaying gamelist.xml and gameinfo.ini......I have it working in eds and HM but when I run HS it doesn't work, the window shows up but no info is displayed inside.

[danwelsh]

Never mind guys.....figured it out. I had to change everything to CLI.....I tried just CLI and also pipe/cli with digital text for the gameinfo and hyperlist but the other things wouldn't work. When I changed everything to CLI it all works but I notice pretty drastic taxing on my system so I don't know if I'll use the gameinfo part unless there's a way to fix the lag

[sevenseal]

Never mind guys.....figured it out. I had to change everything to CLI.....I tried just CLI and also pipe/cli with digital text for the gameinfo and hyperlist but the other things wouldn't work. When I changed everything to CLI it all works but I notice pretty drastic taxing on my system so I don't know if I'll use the gameinfo part unless there's a way to fix the lag

something sounds very odd from symtoms that you describe... want to provide some screenshots of you config windows for eds and hypermarquee?

i can conclude that you are not updated to the latest version of both or one or the other... that is my guess at the moment

[danwelsh]

something sounds very odd from symtoms that you describe... want to provide some screenshots of you config windows for eds and hypermarquee?

i can conclude that you are not updated to the latest version of both or one or the other... that is my guess at the moment

I just seen this post now sevenseal. I will post pics tomorrow after work..... I also have a question on how to implement the rating pngs from RL, do I setup a new marquee as digital text or a marquee image.....I'm thinking marquee image but am getting confused.I don't understand how it can pull the rating info from the xml and/or ini files and find the correct rating info in the default rating media folder

[sevenseal]

I just seen this post now sevenseal. I will post pics tomorrow after work..... I also have a question on how to implement the rating pngs from RL, do I setup a new marquee as digital text or a marquee image.....I'm thinking marquee image but am getting confused.I don't understand how it can pull the rating info from the xml and/or ini files and find the correct rating info in the default rating media folder

it would be artwork, since your using media(pictures) type of materials

it get information from xml from HS's hyperlist which you stick with official because the the extra info is not stripped out or ini from RL's game info... these are setup in the database tab of Hypermarquee...

you would use the wildcard [rating]

in place of the filename, make sure there is a full path to the directory

[danwelsh]

I just thought of this and figured I post it....I have 2 sets of marquee images, one set in a different folder that I want to display when the game is running and the other are the wheel images which I want to change as I scroll the wheels, I want to have the game time elapsed to display all the time, the rating images to display for both when scrolling through the wheels and for the other marquees when playing the game, along with a scrolling message and also a fixed message displaying manufacturer, year, and game type and finally the high scores displaying for just a few seconds when running a game, I played with the open and close filters to get this right but am wondering if having the 2 different sets of marquees is what my problem with taxing the system is, I think I have my filters set wrong.

[sevenseal]

I just thought of this and figured I post it....I have 2 sets of marquee images, one set in a different folder that I want to display when the game is running and the other are the wheel images which I want to change as I scroll the wheels, I want to have the game time elapsed to display all the time, the rating images to display for both when scrolling through the wheels and for the other marquees when playing the game, along with a scrolling message and also a fixed message displaying manufacturer, year, and game type and finally the high scores displaying for just a few seconds when running a game, I played with the open and close filters to get this right but am wondering if having the 2 different sets of marquees is what my problem with taxing the system is, I think I have my filters set wrong.

when you use Hypermarquee, you should open the application from only main directory. there shouldnt require two different folders of Hypermarquee itself. it shouldnt be taxing at all, it might be related to your graphic card? i notice when i tried to record the screen when doing all my instance, i have lag... meaning it too much strain on the video card because of the old video card...

this is with emulator running, hs in the background, rl active, ledblinky, plus 3 other arcade related programs, all 14 instance of hm.

this pc is a very old computer just to note

so updating your drivers will help on your video ...

if it still having issue i would encourage a teamviewer session with me then, if you want to give that a try?

[danwelsh]

when you use Hypermarquee, you should open the application from only main directory. there shouldnt require two different folders of Hypermarquee itself. it shouldnt be taxing at all, it might be related to your graphic card? i notice when i tried to record the screen when doing all my instance, i have lag... meaning it too much strain on the video card because of the old video card...

this is with emulator running, hs in the background, rl active, ledblinky, plus 3 other arcade related programs, all 14 instance of hm.

this pc is a very old computer just to note

so updating your drivers will help on your video ...

if it still having issue i would encourage a teamviewer session with me then, if you want to give that a try?

when you use Hypermarquee, you should open the application from only main directory. there shouldnt require two different folders of Hypermarquee itself. it shouldnt be taxing at all, it might be related to your graphic card? i notice when i tried to record the screen when doing all my instance, i have lag... meaning it too much strain on the video card because of the old video card...

this is with emulator running, hs in the background, rl active, ledblinky, plus 3 other arcade related programs, all 14 instance of hm.

this pc is a very old computer just to note

so updating your drivers will help on your video ...

if it still having issue i would encourage a teamviewer session with me then, if you want to give that a try?

What I mean is I have my hyperspin/media/images/wheels....but I also have a media folder with separate images that are different than the wheel images....I want to display the wheel images when scrolling but when I enter a game I want to display the different images from a different folder, I only have one hypermarquee folder.