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General Discussion & Help / Debug Build with Stepping?

« on: September 04, 2021, 06:06:46 AM »

Newbie question but is there some level of Tracing ( not sure what to call it ) where I can see what Retrofe is doing ( or complaining ) that my layout has issues / errors.
Something that allow me to step through Line by Line when it loads the layout. ( debug build? )

Cheers

General Discussion & Help / ( ArcadeOnly ) Mame HiScores

« on: September 03, 2021, 09:17:20 AM »

Hello, I'm a total Newbie but willing to learn.
I have been playing and have tweaked ( trial & lots of errors ) the CoinOps Arcade Final Build ( Vertical ) to my liking, and with 2nd monitor support for a Marquee. ( I'm quite chuffed how well its turned out )

But I now have a real challenge that I need help with.
I would like to display mame highscores (on the marquee.)

After some googling i see there is a Hi2TXT program that should help this along massively.?

My Logic breaks this into 3 parts.
1. On exiting of said game Hi2TXT runs and creates the textfile file for that game and saves to hdd.
2. Adapt layout.xml to read external text file and display accordingly.
3. Happy Days !!!!

( I appreciate not all games have score saving but the Hi2txt appears to support a huge number of games - Far more that ill ever need )

Does anyone have time to help with this or at-least provide guidance on how to achieve such a thing?
Im hoping someone else likes this idea and we can work on together?

Thanks all.

General Discussion & Help / Attract Mode Dim on 2nd Monitor.

« on: September 03, 2021, 05:14:21 AM »

I have added the 2nd monitor to the Attract Mode dim but it doesn't want to work?
Can Someone take a look and give some pointers?

Thanks Heaps

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 <image src="images/attract.png" alpha="0" height="1920" width="1920" layer="19">
   <onAttract>
      <set duration="0.6">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0.5"/>
      </set>
    </onAttract >
   <onAttractExit>
      <set duration="0.01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0"/>
      </set>
    </onAttractExit >
  </image>
 
 <image src="images/attract.png" alpha="0" height="1920" width="1920" layer="19" Monitor="1">
   <onAttract>
      <set duration="0.6">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0.5"/>
      </set>
    </onAttract >
   <onAttractExit>
      <set duration="0.01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0"/>
      </set>
    </onAttractExit >
  </image>

General Discussion & Help / Re: video to xml

« on: August 31, 2021, 03:45:03 AM »

Quote from: Pieter Hulshoff on August 07, 2021, 11:19:37 AM

Unfortunately, I don't have a second monitor ready to test this with. Would you mind giving it a try to see if it solves your issue?

Fantastic !!! -after a super quick test I'm happy to report its working well.

test code: <video src="video/intro.mp4" layer="19" height="420" width="1920" alpha="1" monitor="1" volume="0" y="center" x="center" yOrigin="center" xOrigin="center">