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General Category => General Discussion & Help => Topic started by: Robsonmeg48 on December 10, 2021, 07:03:42 AM

Title: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on December 10, 2021, 07:03:42 AM

is it possible to change screen orientation while in ur frontend i have tried to do it but it does not work by just  changing windows 10 display settings?
many thanks rob

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on December 10, 2021, 11:39:22 PM

That would depend on the version you're running. I recently added rotation and mirroring to the code. As an alternative, you could indeed rotate Windows and use a vertical layout.

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on December 11, 2021, 07:10:01 AM

thanks for the response how do i find out which version i am useing as the person who i got it from has changed the icons etc etc
also i am currently using it in portrait mode for my fruit machines but when i use my quiz machines it must be in landscape and i have tried the display settings in windows and retrofe does not change with the rest of the screen.
 

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on December 11, 2021, 12:57:53 PM

Just check your log.txt file; it should list the version at or near the top.

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on December 11, 2021, 03:47:57 PM

Cheers version 0.10.0 how would I update it and not loss anything please

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on December 11, 2021, 06:53:17 PM

Download 0.10.21 from http://retrofe.nl/Download/Release/RetroFE_full_0.10.21.zip
Unzip it in a temp directory.
Rename your current core directory to core_backup.
Copy the core directory from 0.10.21 to your RetroFE directory.
Replace retrofe.exe in the core directory with the one from http://retrofe.nl/SMF/index.php?topic=7.msg4621#msg4621
That should do the trick. If it doesn't work, simply remove the new core directory, and restore the old core directory.

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on December 12, 2021, 07:05:02 AM

cheers but that did not work i also downloaded the new version and tried that and that also did not rotate correctly thanks anyway for your help

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on December 12, 2021, 07:56:45 AM

Rotation needs to be configured in the settings.conf file, e.g.:
rotation0 = 1
This will rotate the screen by 90 degrees.
http://www.retrofe.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=global_settings.conf

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on December 22, 2021, 01:18:05 PM

but that will do it straight away yes i need it to rotate from portrait to landscape when i select a parasitic game. is that possible cheers rob
ps merry christmas

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on January 07, 2022, 11:35:38 AM

but that will do it straight away yes i need it to rotate from portrait to landscape when i select a parasitic games. is that possible to do or not many thanks rob ps Happy new year to all

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on January 07, 2022, 06:25:34 PM

This feature only rotates RetroFE. If you want to rotate your emulators, you'll have to do it in there.

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Robsonmeg48 on January 26, 2022, 11:14:12 AM

cant retrofe follow windows rotation when running ?
eg i have it in portrait and press a short cut key to rotation app to landscape but retrofe stays in portrait. (i only need landscape for my quiz games which can only be played in landscape) 
cheers rob

Title: Re: screen orientation
Post by: Pieter Hulshoff on January 27, 2022, 10:38:24 PM

That's an emulator issue. MAME or example can set a rotation per game.