or8ital's HyperSpin Helper Software - 2nd / 3rd Display Controller

[sandman7793]

Ya the hanns g, its perfect. Ill try the new one now. Just put my motherboard in HAF case with a water cooler so been a little pre occupied.

[sandman7793]

[or8ital]

Still stumped. I tried that game on my system and it works fine. Perhaps its a permission issue with the program trying to access that directory? What's the full path to the images you are trying?

[or8ital]

Here is the code being used to try to find it:

string marqueePath = "";

string wheelPath = "";

string defaultPath = "";

marqueePath = getHyperSpinLocation() + @"\Media\" + strEmulator + @"\Images\Marquee\" + strGame + ".png";

wheelPath = getHyperSpinLocation() + @"\Media\" + strEmulator + @"\Images\Wheel\" + strGame + ".png";

defaultPath = @"\images\misc\marquee.png";

if (File.Exists(marqueePath) == true)

{

App.Current.Properties["marquee"] = marqueePath;

}

else if (File.Exists(wheelPath) == true)

{

App.Current.Properties["marquee"] = wheelPath;

}

else

{

App.Current.Properties["marquee"] = defaultPath;

}

[sandman7793]

Do you think it's from reinstalling the operating system and just dragging hyperspin back to where it was on the old operating system

[or8ital]

Was it showing the wheel image on your control panel screen?

I can add some debug code to the screen that might help

[sandman7793]

It was showing wheel images on the control panel screen. I have the control panel screen set to false at the moment though. Im waiting on a display port adapter so i can run three screens at once, it should be here in a few days.

[or8ital]

I would try to turn back on the control screen and off the marquee screen. If it still works its probably something in the program. If it doesn't then it might be something on your machine.

[sandman7793]

Ok will do when i get home from work...

[sandman7793]

Ok control panel works perfect, including wheel image showing at top.

[or8ital]

I will try to post a version with some debug info displayed tomorrow.

[or8ital]

OK, you can download the version on the FTP site now. It will show a bunch of extra text on the screen that will help debug. Please post a screenshot of the text after you enter a game.

[sandman7793]

Ok thanks.

Had a problem with windows 7 booting after using windows7bootupdater so I just installed a copy of windows 8 I had lying around. Then marquee started working. So don't know what was up.

1) don't know how to do screen shot with hyperhelper running.

2) Sytems that I cant get working

Atari 2600

SG1000

Sega 32X

PC Games

XBMC

On these systems on the marquee screen it says: current emulator.current game. then has all the paths then it says marquee.png not found wheel.png not found

3) Systems I have working.

Atari 5200

Atari 7800

Atari Lynx

Gameboy

Mame (if hyper bezel was not installed)

Turbo Grafx 16

Nintendo 64

NES

SNES

Gamecube

Sega CD

Sega Game Gear

Sega Genesis

Sega Master

PS1

PS2

WiiWare (Triforce)

4) Cant switch screen number around in my setting for my displays now so my control screen =1 main =2 marquee =3 but in the settings xml I have to leave it like this to work controls =2 main =1 marquee =3 not that it matters much though cause at least it works now.

5) Most important part!!! Thanks for all your help with this!!!!!!!

[or8ital]

I'll see if I have any of those systems working and figure out what is going on. Does the control panel work for those systems or nothing at all?

Interesting about windows 8. All my testing is on windows 8. Nothing I'm doing in the code should prohibit other versions but now I wonder.

No problem on the help. This has been a welcome distraction the past few weeks. My wife had a major surgery last week so this has given me something else to think about. She is doing great though now and the doctors are optimistic it went well. With that said though, her sister is arriving tonight to take care of her this week. As a result my work on this project will take a break for a week or so since she will be taking over our upstairs where my stuff is. I may have to work on my other hobbies such as RC car racing or paintball in the meantime.

[sandman7793]

First off, I hope your wife gets better and try and just hang in there.

The control panel on those systems just show the separator.png from the misc folder of hyperspinhelper.

This is my back yard www.naplesrctrack.com me and a couple buddies built this. Tracks finished now though, the video was a while back. Took us 6 months to get it complete.

Here's my losi 1/8 truggy: brushless conversion, tekkin rx8 with a t8, savox servo, all aluminum parts, DTX wheels and tires (now but not pictured), 5200 mah 4 cell lipo.

[or8ital]

disregard.

[or8ital]

OK, a few bugs fixed included the marquee not working unless you enabled the controls screen (which may have been the issue for Sandman). Also changed the settings.xml file again so when you download the new version you will need to re-apply any changes.

[sandman7793]

Awesome will download when I get home. Also did you remove the debug text.

[or8ital]

Yep. It's removed.

[or8ital]

OK another new version is uploaded now. You can now optionally show a controller or control panel image (either by system or game) on the controls screen. More info to be added on how to use on the blog shortly.

Control Panel or Controller Images -

On the controls screen you can optionally show an image of the system controller or game controls. In the settings.xml file set the "ShowControllerImages" to "true" to enable. It will then look for the image based on the first it finds in the following two locations:

1.[hyperspin folder]\media\[emulator]\Images\Controls\[rom name].png

2. images\controls\[system name].png

I wasn't quite sure the best place to put the image. It kind of results in some wasted space. Any ideas on layout would be appreciated. Between the header and the control info might be a better place. Most of the MAME control panel images are more landscape orientation.

I won't be able to work on this again until next Sunday so let me know your feedback over the next week.

[sandman7793]

What about something like this. Would like to make it use these images but it only puts small image on side. You think when you get back at it you could make it where we could pick a complete image? Downloaded the psd files from the FTP. As you can see I like these cause it matchs my tankstick layout

[or8ital]

My concerns with that type layout are that it's tough to keep it looking clean for all games based on how long the text is (since its variable in length). Especially since it would vary based on each persons layout. I think it's also hard to read quickly. I'll give it some more thought this week on what to do.

The other reason is that it's just a lot more complex to configure and I want to keep it simple. As much as I would tell people it's up to them to figure it out I know I wouldn't be able to do that. :-)

[or8ital]

My company is now gone. Any thoughts on changes / improvements? If there isn't a lot of interest I may just work on this for myself.

[sandman7793]

Of course there's interest, at least for me. There's a few things I would like to see. Maybe integrate hyper bezel in with it. Make it seem less glitchy (might just be on my end). Make the marquee return to default when you back out of a game. Make some things more customizable to the user if possible. One more thing Thanks for all your hard work.

[or8ital]

Of course there's interest' date=' at least for me. There's a few things I would like to see. Maybe integrate hyper bezel in with it. Make it seem less glitchy (might just be on my end). Make the marquee return to default when you back out of a game. Make some things more customizable to the user if possible. One more thing Thanks for all your hard work.[/quote']

I mean interest from more than 1 person. :-). The marquee should go back to the default when exiting a game. What old you like to customize? All the graphics are customizable as are all the controller configurations. Can you record the go itching you are referring to? I don't get any glitching.