HyperMarquee

[mamefan]

55 minutes ago, aarikg said:

Yeah I threw that in there to see if I could get anything else to show up, sorry it is gone now. I also had it matched exactly like yours in the video and that didn't work(it worked but would not show wheel when needed). Someone else's video said you need it this way so i tried it I will switch it back.

Also, it looks like you have HiToText disabled. See the checkbox. It's disabled on mine because I don't use it.

[aarikg]

Also, it looks like you have HiToText disabled. See the checkbox. It's disabled on mine because I don't use it.

 

43 minutes ago, mamefan said:

Also, it looks like you have HiToText disabled. See the checkbox. It's disabled on mine because I don't use it.

It's disabled because it it flashes then shuts down and when it does it also shuts down the marquee. I have to do more research on the HiToText.

[Krakerman]

Strange thing noticed today when I exit a game say in mame and goes back to hyperspin looks like it closes hyper marquee. Is there a setting I should look for as this never happen before. WHen I run hyperspin for first time hyper marquee works just find and even after I launch the game but exiting back to hyperspin closes hyper marquee.

[mamefan]

5 hours ago, Krakerman said:

Strange thing noticed today when I exit a game say in mame and goes back to hyperspin looks like it closes hyper marquee. Is there a setting I should look for as this never happen before. WHen I run hyperspin for first time hyper marquee works just find and even after I launch the game but exiting back to hyperspin closes hyper marquee.

You could try reducing your close filters. I use none or only 8 as a close filter. When you exit hyperspin, marquees will still be showing, but you can close hypermarquee yourself. I just right-click and close on the taskbar.

[aarikg]

I am not and idiot I must be cursed, I thought what the heck I am just going to add a new app (hyper Marquee) to the EDS. Because all I was worried about was the marquee/wheel art I set that up the same paths as I was using in the old one exited out and tested it and it worked !!! Great right... well I didn't add my system wheel art in, so I went back in to add that (I know the path) Nope won't work !!! Ha ha well after work tonight I am going to try again adding all the paths correctly the first time. I just wanted to let you know I am still working on it.  

[mamefan]

4 minutes ago, aarikg said:

I am not and idiot I must be cursed, I thought what the heck I am just going to add a new app (hyper Marquee) to the EDS. Because all I was worried about was the marquee/wheel art I set that up the same paths as I was using in the old one exited out and tested it and it worked !!! Great right... well I didn't add my system wheel art in, so I went back in to add that (I know the path) Nope won't work !!! Ha ha well after work tonight I am going to try again adding all the paths correctly the first time. I just wanted to let you know I am still working on it.  

In your EDS pic, you have hypermarquee twice. That might cause an issue.

[aarikg]

52 minutes ago, mamefan said:

In your EDS pic, you have hypermarquee twice. That might cause an issue.

Really, I was thinking I could have multiple(that was the panels I was talking about on your video), I was hoping that I could run a third monitor mounted on the wall showing Flyers and other game art. I have seen it done on a video I thought was hyper Marquee. I will try that tonight too. I found the link ...

 

[Krakerman]

Fixed it!

[mamefan]

6 minutes ago, aarikg said:

Really, I was thinking I could have multiple(that was the panels I was talking about on your video), I was hoping that I could run a third monitor mounted on the wall showing Flyers and other game art. I have seen it done on a video I thought was hyper Marquee. I will try that tonight too. I found the link ...

 

In that case, don't listen to me. I don't know anything about using multiple monitors with it.

[aarikg]

9 minutes ago, Krakerman said:

Fixed it!

did taking out the extra close filters fix it or something else?

[aarikg]

11 minutes ago, mamefan said:

In that case, don't listen to me. I don't know anything about using multiple monitors with it.

ha ha one thing at a time for me thanks for all your help... do you have your Marquee background just set to black? I see the hyper marquee window is slightly transparent. Do you know what the usual practice is?

[mamefan]

5 minutes ago, aarikg said:

ha ha one thing at a time for me thanks for all your help... do you have your Marquee background just set to black? I see the hyper marquee window is slightly transparent. Do you know what the usual practice is?

I think it's only transparent in the editor. I haven't noticed that any of my marquees are showing as transparent. I don't remember messing with a background color at all.

[Antos]

Good stuff guys! 

To some of your questions;

- Is the video uses EDS and HyperMarquee that I have built. - Yes

- Is EDS/HM can be used on as many display as you want (1,2,3.. Projector, LCD, CRT...) - Yes

- Does it support transparency. - Yes

I am not really available for support sadly. But Sevenseal (former colleague who knows it inside out) or sharing your experiences between you guys is the best starting point (after reading the guides of course :)). I may support one of you time to time, but it's by exception (when no solution found). I am very busy with a new Arcade Community software that I am sure that you will enjoy.  

NB: I love reading your findings and new ideas, some of them are amazing and push the limit of what I thought was possible.

Cheers!

[aarikg]

Ok here is another question, I started out with an old hyperspin I loaded a version of watcher that I didn't set up after reading that with Hyperspin 1.4 I didn't need it(grabbed that exe and dumped it in) . I was fumbling around and low and behold Hyper marquee started working(kind of). The system marquess show up and some of the Marquees(I thought) were working. I started a new Hypermarquee and set all of the paths correctly after re-reading instructions and watching videos and figuring out what was going on. I now have one setup that all the "games" are using the marquees and if not the then the wheel art but the systems will not show up. I have verified the paths and they are correct I even opened the XML files and verified they were correct and they were. This made me go look at the first marquee again thats when i realized the "system" path was not even close to the right path and the "games" path was correct however I noticed that the images it was using were not the marquee images from that folder, I have no idea where they are coming from. Whew I guess I am wondering if the paths can determined somewhere else? or what else could I have going on? I am sure we will get this figured out however I just am thinking about purchasing a stretch monitor and want it all working on this test monitor before I make the plunge.  

[sevenseal]

i am still around, just more passive due to seeing others are helping, i will only step in on request or the issue is complicated

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[Antos]

Glad to see you around! Long time no see.

 

[aarikg]

Sevenseal or Antos anything jump out at what I am talking about it is a fresh install of Windows 10 with the Arcade flies on a separate hard drive. I just can’t quite firgure out why it sometimes is not using the path I have in hyper marquee.

[sevenseal]

Sevenseal or Antos anything jump out at what I am talking about it is a fresh install of Windows 10 with the Arcade flies on a separate hard drive. I just can’t quite firgure out why it sometimes is not using the path I have in hyper marquee.

give a current path in the setting, a screenshot will help?

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[aarikg]

2 hours ago, sevenseal said:

give a current path in the setting, a screenshot will help?

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Ok lets try this again sorry if I am talking in circles, and I already know SWEET bungee cord. OK I enabled both to hopefully show what I am talking about. the top of the top monitor is the Marquee_Aarik and the bottom of the top screen is the Marquee_Final. The first  picture (sorry about using pictures I was trying to not have this machine ever touch the network but that may have to change) any way 1 in the Event then Mame then Main menu you can see the "final" shows nothing for system, the I used 1 1943 and Mame I just figured out that the "top" or Marquee_Aarik one is using the hyperspin artwork and I have no idea how. he next two are showing the same thing but through Hyperspin, The next three are settings for the 'top" or Marquee_Aarik as you can see the paths are not correct I show the path next to the settings.The next are the paths from the bottom or Final they work great except the System path again I show the folder appears to be correct. I hope this helps again I appreciate all the help I would love a better understanding of how this works behind the scenes in EDS why the Hyperspin artwork path is getting used, I can change the path to something crazy it will still show that art work in that(Marquee_Aarik)one.

[aarikg]

Did I offend someone? Or is everyone just really busy? I hope it is the later... Did my explanation make sense?

[sevenseal]

Did I offend someone? Or is everyone just really busy? I hope it is the later... Did my explanation make sense?

sorry, just busy at the moment, trying see if i have free time to over look your issue. i see some issues already, but take time to explain

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[aarikg]

4 hours ago, sevenseal said:

sorry, just busy at the moment, trying see if i have free time to over look your issue. i see some issues already, but take time to explain

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That would be great I have been busy also, I want to also understand whats going on al well as have it work.

[sevenseal]

here is your issue..

 

1. on the main menu.... the system is consider main_menu, that is a different directory source path than your mame source... it is showing blank/black/nothing because it cant find the file needed and the directory is not listed in HM. to fix that you need to either use a system wildcard in your directory listing for your source or another individual add a alternative source.

 

2. extenstion do matter, make your library is all the same. better yet dont add an extenstion when you use the wildcard [FileName] so that it can use any image without the limitation of what extenstion that you set

 

3. i see issue on eds setting, but that problem is not for this thread to discuss on, this is HM thread.

 

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[aarikg]

On 12/2/2017 at 9:06 AM, sevenseal said:

here is your issue..

 

1. on the main menu.... the system is consider main_menu, that is a different directory source path than your mame source... it is showing blank/black/nothing because it cant find the file needed and the directory is not listed in HM. to fix that you need to either use a system wildcard in your directory listing for your source or another individual add a alternative source.

OK I see now it goes in the Artwork folder and I was missing a Bracket, I still don't understand what the system image folder is but.. for now I guess its doing what I want.

2. extenstion do matter, make your library is all the same. better yet dont add an extenstion when you use the wildcard [FileName] so that it can use any image without the limitation of what extenstion that you set

Took care of this also thanks

3. i see issue on eds setting, but that problem is not for this thread to discuss on, this is HM thread.

Anywhere we could? I have LED buttons and a new Ipac coming would love to get LED Blinky working through EDS.

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[mamefan]

7 minutes ago, aarikg said:

Anywhere we could? I have LED buttons and a new Ipac coming would love to get LED Blinky working through EDS.

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