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Scripting / Re: Help in getting Scrolling Text to go RIGHT and/or VERTICAL

« on: February 28, 2025, 04:28:48 AM »

Apparently the public code was designed to only support HORIZONTAL_LEFT and HORIZONTAL_BOUNCE.  It would have been nice if it had been documented that was the case!

In any event, I'm sure there's a better way to update the scrollingnet.nut module, but here's what I came up with, enjoy:

Change:
  add = function( text, x, y, w, h, scroll_type = ScrollType.HORIZONTAL_LEFT ) {
to:
  add = function( text, x, y, w, h, scroll_type ) {
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Just before the //create a scrolling text object section:
Add this:

  // Support for all Scroll Functions
  local scroll_dir = "";
  if ( scroll_type == ScrollType.HORIZONTAL_LEFT ) scroll_dir = "left";
  if ( scroll_type == ScrollType.HORIZONTAL_RIGHT ) scroll_dir = "right";
  if ( scroll_type == ScrollType.HORIZONTAL_BOUNCE ) scroll_dir = "left";
  if ( scroll_type == ScrollType.VERTICAL_UP ) scroll_dir = "up";
  if ( scroll_type == ScrollType.VERTICAL_DOWN ) scroll_dir = "down";
  if ( scroll_type == ScrollType.VERTICAL_BOUNCE ) scroll_dir = "up";

//create a scrolling text object
...
...
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Change:
  _dir = "left",
to:
  _dir = scroll_dir,
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Scripting / Help in getting Scrolling Text to go RIGHT and/or VERTICAL

« on: February 23, 2025, 06:11:08 PM »

I just starting using this feature and love it!

But my text is only scrolling Right to Left, and Horizontal Bounce works also.

But i'm unable to get Horizontal_Right and any of the Vertical options to function.
Even when using the sample object scrolling layout included, The Horiztonal_Right and Vertical examples all scroll Right to Left.

I've searched this forun as best i can, but unable to find out what i'm doing wrong.
Any advice?

Thank you all!

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General / Re: Issue starting a game, The game starts in the background

« on: October 15, 2023, 06:50:50 PM »

Thank you for the suggestion, but that had no effect.

I managed to find an article with a solution using autohotkey, it works well!

https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?style=19&t=93082

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General / Re: Issue starting a game, The game starts in the background

« on: October 13, 2023, 06:05:18 PM »

Experimenting with this some more, its when the user presses a key multiple time after selecting the game!
usually it's the CTRL (fire) or Coinin (5) keys

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General / Issue starting a game, The game starts in the background

« on: October 13, 2023, 12:37:48 PM »

I've narrowed the problem down to a key being pressed while mame is loading.
I believe its a windows thing, same happens opening up any application in wndows. if ctrl, alt or shift are pressed or held when starting word, IE, or MAME, that app launches in the back.

As hard as I try to start it, sometimes a player will just pressed buttons after selecting their game, then the game isn't visable, or the coin/start commands goto the background, app not functioning, until I Alt-Tab with a keyboard!  not fun.