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General / Re: Can you make attract mode open on a second monitor only?

« on: September 13, 2016, 04:26:00 AM »

MAME is easy, but i want Attract Mode to open on the monitor i specify before that.

Thanks for jumping in though, the more people that look the more likely i am to get there

EDIT: Oh the cloned stuff. Well, I'm having a weird issue there. Hoping Calamity can help.

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General / Re: Can you make attract mode open on a second monitor only?

« on: September 08, 2016, 04:52:01 AM »

Oddly enough i wanted to clone the desktop recently on a different setup, and  it doesn't work with MAME. GroovyMAME will only open one one monitor, regardless of what the windows desktop is doing. In addition to which, you can't pick the monitor - when using cloned desktops, it always goes to the primary. Weird.

I haven't tried using displayswitch.exe to do the cloning yet; is it doing anything differently?

Also, a fix for the original problem would be awesome. Or just a better workaround...

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General / Re: What controls do you use for Attract-Mode?

« on: August 15, 2016, 05:36:26 PM »

I use a stick and buttons, and then a wheel and pedals for driving cabs.

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General / Re: Force Attract Mode to use a specific monitor?

« on: August 15, 2016, 05:26:19 PM »

Does this thread help? http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=866.0

I'm using AMM to control applications opening on specific monitors as described, though it does mean you have to add exceptions for everything you don't want affected.

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General / Re: [SOLVED] Autohotkey to trigger exit key in AM?

« on: July 22, 2016, 05:32:26 AM »

MAME is a pain, it won't take joy-to-key remappers, it only listens to low level input. So whatever you map your sticks to will likely have no effect. You might be able to do it with a registry edit, but anything short probably won't work.

I'd be curious to learn more about Kevin's program, though.

On the other hand you should just be able to bind both those buttons to UI Cancel in MAME. As in, set UI Cancel and just push both the buttons you want.

It's not perfect, it's not the hold7,push8 combo but it'd be the next best thing.

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General / Re: Can you make attract mode open on a second monitor only?

« on: July 21, 2016, 11:26:45 PM »

use the builtin commandline tool: displayswitch.exe to clone your screens on demand, deactivate monitors, etc...

Code: [Select]

c:\displayswitch.exe /clone

Hmmm. Not... quite. I don't necessarily want to clone the displays, and that's the best option i can see there. I want one thing on one screen, and an altogether different thing to load up on the other. The user can then pick, if I do things right. Unless internal/external represent different displays on a desktop card? But can you make that displayswitch work with a specific program?

Still, I'll keep that one in mind for future needs, so thanks for posting

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General / Re: Can you make attract mode open on a second monitor only?

« on: July 21, 2016, 06:29:23 PM »

I'm still interested in a way to do this within attractmode, but for now will be using Actual Multiple Monitors (at least until the trial runs out).

This will send Attract mode to monitor 2, but needs exceptions set up for MAME, model 2, Supermodel and WinUAE - this way Mame can open where i want, as will WinUAE, and Model 2 and Supermodel will go fullscreen automatically on Monitor 1.

Essentially i needed Model 2 to open on monitor 1 because AMM couldn't force it into fullscreen on monitor 2. It can do that with Supermodel, but...

Forcing something to another monitor won't change res in the emulator, of course - it just scales the screen to whatever res that monitor is on. So If i had Supermodel running at 320x240 (or whatever resolution it opens at on monitor 1, and forced it onto monitor 2 that was set to 640x480, it would scale to the new res and look really bad while at the same time still flickering. I'm not sure how accurate any 480i to 480i transition is, whether perfectly aligned or not, but Attract Mode can take one for the team - and anyway still looks fine when doing this as both screens are set to 480i.

Now to dive into Demul

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General / Can you make attract mode open on a second monitor only?

« on: July 19, 2016, 05:14:38 AM »

I've got a Win 7 PC that's running two cabs, the second being a sit-down driver. I want to make the standup cab run attract mode, but to do this and have everything work, i need attract mode to open in fullscreen on monitor 2. Is it possible to do that?

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General / Re: Command box starts over AttactMode?

« on: July 03, 2016, 05:59:56 PM »

Alright, so I'm an idiot. The answer was posted in another thread about losing focus on Win10.

In the attract.cfg in the main directory, there's a line hide_console, and you just change the setting to "yes".

Loving the software so far

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General / Command box starts over AttactMode?

« on: June 30, 2016, 09:55:11 PM »

Hi all,

Just set up attract mode on two of my cabs, and i'm enjoying having a frontend, finally. The features like the screen saver are great, and it does exactly what I need it to do.

I do have a problem on one cab, though. AttractMode launches on boot-up of the PC, an old core-2 duo on Win 7, and the active command shell for AttactMode (or /cmd box or dos prompt, or whatever it's called) pops up in front, over the top of the intro vid, and then it stays in front of the layout. Starting a game forces it to the back, and once at the back it stays there. But it looks pretty average with the frontend hidden on startup!

If i set the focus, will that help? Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance