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The buttons on the toolbar from left to right are : toggle folder +list, toggle screenshot, large icons view, small icons view, list view, details +view, help about, and help file. Click the items to toggle them on or off. +The toolbar also contains the game search box, typing into this text box will +filter out games. It is similar in function to the <strong>Ctrl-F</strong> filter but only +filters on game descriptive name, it is also accessible with the <strong>Ctrl-E</strong> +shortcut.</p> +<p class="MsoNormal"> +<img border="0" src="../images/toolbar.gif" width="632" height="28"></p> +<p class="MsoNormal"> </p> +<p class="MsoNormal">The MameUI <b>status bar</b> extends the width of the application +at the bottom and can be toggled on by using the View Status Bar menu item, or +the <b>Alt-S</b> keyboard shortcut. The status bar indicates the full name of the game +highlighted, and gives its internal status flag as to whether its working or if +there are some issues with the emulation. The status bar also indicates the +game count for the particular view used.</p> +<p class="MsoNormal"> +<img border="0" src="../images/statusbar.gif" width="632" height="20"></p> +<p class="MsoNormal"> + </p> +<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MameUI can be divided into three windowed sections:</b></p> +<p class="MsoNormal"> </p> +<p class="MsoNormal">The first section on the far left is the <b>folder view</b>, +toggled on by using the View Folder List menu item, or the Alt-D keyboard +shortcut. This contains a tree style list that expands for certain items like +year, manufacturer, and custom. By selecting one of these items, MameUI will +display the games that meet that criterion. For example: selecting year / 1978, +MameUI will +display all the supported games manufactured in 1978. </p> +<ul> + <li> +<p class="MsoNormal">MameUI will display user +created folders based on *.ini files located in the \MameUI\folders directory. +See files in that location for examples. This location also houses the +favorites.ini, where favorite games can be added to the text file and easily +moved to other computers.<br> + </p> + </li> + <li> +<p class="MsoNormal">MameUI supports dragging and dropping games from the middle +section game list into a custom folder in the left pane. MameUI supports +the same procedure by secondary clicking on the game in the game list and +choosing the 'add to custom folder' option.<br> + </p> + </li> + <li> +<p class="MsoNormal">MameUI also supports secondary clicking on a custom folder +and renaming it, editing the custom folder name can also be accomplished by +clicking the name of the folder three times quickly.<br> + </p> + </li> + <li> +<p class="MsoNormal">Secondary clicking on any of the folders also allows +selectively displaying or hiding them in the tree.<br> + </p> + </li> + <li> +<p class="MsoNormal">Secondary clicking the vector folders and the \source\gamedriver +folder allows for customizing +away from default the games in that folder.<font face="Arial" size="2"> +Secondary click on the vector folder properties in the folder pane to set +options for that group of games. To alter global settings for game +families select the properties for it, e.g. dkong.c for the Donkey Kong family +of games This will change options for +all games based on that driver. Thus there is the possibility to have +four levels of alterations when a game's individual properties are viewed +in All Games or any folder. The changes can be backed out of +hierarchically with reset to default on each respective properties, or by +deleting the .ini files in the \ini directory.</font></p> + </li> +</ul> +<p class="MsoNormal">The second, middle section of MameUI is the <b>game list</b>, +always toggled on. This is where MameUI lists all of the games chosen +in the left folder view. MameUI has the option to display the games as large +icons, small icons, a list icons view, or details. Choosing details allows +MameUI to display, in columnar mode, the game name as well as additional +informational fields, chosen in the View Customize Fields menu item.</p> +<p class="MsoNormal"> </p> +<p class="MsoNormal">The third section, on the far right, is the <b>screenshot/art +area</b>, toggled on by using the View Screenshot menu item, or the <b>Alt-P</b> keyboard +shortcut. This area of the GUI will display the optional artwork for each game +selected, the artwork modes are toggled through by clicking on the picture area. The +modes are: screenshot, flyer, cabinet, marquees, title shots, control panels, +and history. <b>Alt-B</b> +will toggle the screenshot tabs which give a visual selection method besides +clicking the artwork area. Secondary clicking on the screenshot area will +also bring up a shortcut dialogue with the file types available and allow +toggling on or off individual tabs. The area under the screenshot mode +will also display the history.dat information if that file is present [it will +not display in the screenshot area if the history tab is enabled]. Each of +the tabs can be navigated to by their accelerator keys, <b>Alt-1</b>, <b>Alt-2</b>, +<b>Alt-3</b>, etc. Further +information about these files is in +<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" href="mameui_art.htm">Art and Support Files</a>.</p> + +<p class="MsoNormal"> </p> + +<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"> +<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p %Z" startspan -->2008-07-16 12:03 AM -0700<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="37949" --> +/ john iv</font></p> + +</body> + +</html>
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