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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: denmiclaw on March 11, 2015, 05:44:52 PM

Title: Couple of beginner's questions :)
Post by: denmiclaw on March 11, 2015, 05:44:52 PM

Just wanted to ask if a couple of things were possible or planned for the future?

1 - Scrolling text - A lot of the text, especially when you change the font, gets cut off in the rom's names - is there any way to adjust this to make it scroll?
2 - Since you can use MALA layouts, is there a way to use a MALA tree layout, so you can set categories?  Arcade, Console, Computer, etc?

And thanks for this great frontend!!

Title: Re: Couple of beginner's questions :)
Post by: cools on March 12, 2015, 04:38:36 AM

As far as the text is concerned I believe (not tested) putting on a surface object stops it being cut off.

Title: Re: Couple of beginner's questions :)
Post by: raygun on March 12, 2015, 08:14:52 AM

there is no easy way built in right now to have text scroll when it is too big.  As cools suggests you could write a layout or plugin to do it by using surfaces, that would require digging into the squirrel scripting stuff.

For #2, no mala tree layouts, but I think you can achieve sonething similar (?) using filters or by creating multiple displays with different romlists

Title: Re: Couple of beginner's questions :)
Post by: denmiclaw on March 19, 2015, 01:39:56 PM

Thanks, I found a smaller narrower Arial font that works :)

Ok, so you can't do a tree, does that mean having a main menu (lists the systems, with a system video) is out also?

Thanks very much!!