Re: [qmc2-devel] Support for MAME's output notifications

[R. R. <ren...@ba...>]

On Wed August 27 2008 22:48, R. Reucher wrote:
> I've just committed a few nice changes to SVN to support MAME's new output
> notifications in the emulator control panel (shows game LEDs and status
> info). The emulator control panel now is a multi-column list widget to
> support this cleanly. Hope there are not too many bugs left :).
Found and fixed a few bugs, made it a tree widget (to support all additional 
MAME notifications (of class OUT) not handled explicitly in a per game sub 
tree) and removed the third static LED display as it doen't seem to be widely 
used (not found ANY game yet which uses it :)... "gallag" is a good test case 
for the LEDs, and "turbo" is a nice one for a lot of additional / non-static 
output notifiers.

BTW, this new feature is not optional (yet). It will be made available if 
SDLMAME 0.127+ is used. This does not mean that older versions are no longer 
supported (they will just not write to the output notifier FIFO), but I want 
to make it absolutely clear that 0.127+ is required to gain anything from 
it :). Otherwise it will basically be the same as before, just more nicely 
displayed.

If you should ever see a message like "unhandled MAME output 
notification: ..." in the frontend log, please let me know!

Have fun, René
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