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[fuzzel]

version 1.83 is up!

[hmueck]

Short question: Does anyone know a media pack which has more flyer images, e.g. images in inside1/2/3/4/5/6 folder and not only in the front/back folder?

 

My "Inside6" folder lists three: Space Invaders, Star Trek The Next Generation and Strange Science.

[fuzzel]

Great thx

[Hyper]

I really like PinSelect, but the fact that it isn't able to play table videos, keeps me with HyperPin.

When in the future PS is able to play table videos (and backglass videos) I will make the switch.

Keep up the good work!!!

[bnlsg]

Cool piece of software! I don't really care about video playback, so I'm about to switch.

There is just one missing feature that hopefully is easy to implement: The Starting_Genre in Hyperpin.

As I have 500+ tables on my cab I set "Starting_Genre = Favorites" so that Hyperpin shows my favorites only on startup. Would it be possible for PinSelect to honor that setting?

[jasonsmith]

version 1.83 is up!

 

Thanks for the update fuzzel, the flyers are awesome. This is the first time I was actually able to read some. You definitely honored my request for full screen lol. They are FULL screen, which is really cool. The aspect ratio is little stretched when full screen but then again the text is taller so it's not so squished. Curious if they would still be legible if they remained the proper ratio with a black filler bar at the top of the screen.

 

In respect to the genre button bringing up the filter menu, the work around for me is to switch my keys in the settings. I just need to remember that they are swapped and have to return them back if I use HP.

 

I was thinking, many cab builders don't like a whole bunch of buttons on their cab fronts, I have a bunch but don't really like them either. So accessing the filter menu should be possible some other way, maybe a selection in the exit menu.  

 

I know you have made rotating through the tables quicker but would it be possible to make it faster. It seems like it's fighting on my crappy PC a bit. If I do quick next table button presses it only takes a few until the rotation gets behind the button press. And with the letter skip I need to stop a letter or two before the one I want as it's also not keeping up and still moves a couple letters after I let go of the button. 

[Hyper]

As I have 500+ tables on my cab I set "Starting_Genre = Favorites" so that Hyperpin shows my favorites only on startup. Would it be possible for PinSelect to honor that setting?

 

I think you will have to fill the: Favourites.xml for that.

 

From the ps_readme.txt: Under Databases\Visual Pinball and Databases\Future Pinball you will find a new file Favourites.xml. You can add your favourite pinball tables here in the
same way as you would do for the normal database. Do not delete the Favourites.xml file, if you don't want to use it don't add a game into that file.

[bnlsg]

As I have 500+ tables on my cab I set "Starting_Genre = Favorites" so that Hyperpin shows my favorites only on startup. Would it be possible for PinSelect to honor that setting?

 
I think you will have to fill the: Favourites.xml for that.

Yes, i did that. But on startup PinSelect always displays all tables, not just the favorites.

[fuzzel]

Yes this is a small bug...I oversaw this settings in the ini file. I will add this asap

version 1.83 is up!

 

Thanks for the update fuzzel, the flyers are awesome. This is the first time I was actually able to read some. You definitely honored my request for full screen lol. They are FULL screen, which is really cool. The aspect ratio is little stretched when full screen but then again the text is taller so it's not so squished. Curious if they would still be legible if they remained the proper ratio with a black filler bar at the top of the screen.

 

In respect to the genre button bringing up the filter menu, the work around for me is to switch my keys in the settings. I just need to remember that they are swapped and have to return them back if I use HP.

 

I was thinking, many cab builders don't like a whole bunch of buttons on their cab fronts, I have a bunch but don't really like them either. So accessing the filter menu should be possible some other way, maybe a selection in the exit menu.  

 

I know you have made rotating through the tables quicker but would it be possible to make it faster. It seems like it's fighting on my crappy PC a bit. If I do quick next table button presses it only takes a few until the rotation gets behind the button press. And with the letter skip I need to stop a letter or two before the one I want as it's also not keeping up and still moves a couple letters after I let go of the button. 

Regarding your speed wishes: I fear I can't do very much here...PinSelect is a Winforms application, those apps have limited graphics support. It works though but not as fast as you would expect it.

After all these changes it turns out that the design decision using Winforms wasn't a good one but I don't have the time to rebuild everything in WPF (and I don't really know if this would speed things up).

So I guess you have to live with it until I find a better solution

 

And for the filter menu thing...I don't know if I should change it, have to think a little bit about it

[jasonsmith]

 

And for the filter menu thing...I don't know if I should change it, have to think a little bit about it

 

This is your baby fuzzel, unless you think my ideas are for the better good please don't change anything. Thanks for thinking about them though 

[fuzzel]

Version 1.84 is up!

I just changed the Startup_Genre setting and the behaviour of the Startup/Exit Program setting

[Aurich]

I haven't had a chance to try this out yet, I will, but mark me down as another person who couldn't care less about video support. I have high quality screenshots and backglasses and that's all I need. Frankly the videos irritate me, they're not up to the quality of my still screens, the anti-aliasing isn't as good.

[jasonsmith]

fuzzel I'm getting a crash on startup with 84.

 

 

 

EDIT: Tried re-extracting, tried re-downloading

Edited by jasonsmith, 06 May 2013 - 10:49 PM.

[nels]

Hi Fuzzel 

 

  Great proggie there,it has resolved a lot of focus issues for me in win 7 64 bit.The new update works but took me a while to figure out it seems there are multiple spellings for favorites eg . favorites,favourites,favorits .Anyone not able to load your favorites in the start_Genre you have to spell it favorits .Hope i'm not nitpicking here ..... anyways Kudos for a great program so far .

 

 Nels

[knucklehd]

1.84 Crashes immediately for me as well. Thought it was me changing back to FP 2.4 from 2.5 mod getting BAM to work (having fun with that good stuff), but nope, when I go back to PS 1.82 it works fine.

I didnt have any favorites listed in my xml, i tried renaming from favourites to favorites, no luck. 

 

For now I am swaying to FP, love the graphics, tables, better sound, speed, BAM, and pinselect. (physics don't bother me much better with 2.5, so we need to keep pinselect supporting this and working good with BAM)  I have a mix of ~80 tables for now and growing. 

Thanks so much.

[fuzzel]

For those having an instant crash: Do you use the startup/exit program feature?
If so what do you start? Batch file or exe?
I can't reproduce the problem here...

Edited by fuzzel, 07 May 2013 - 06:41 AM.

[fuzzel]

Version 1.85 is out. Please go to sourceforge for downloading it (link is in the first post).

[jasonsmith]

For those having an instant crash: Do you use the startup/exit program feature?
If so what do you start? Batch file or exe?
I can't reproduce the problem here...

I start a batch file that turns my cab button leds on. There's also a batch file set to turn the leds off on exit. The .bat files are in the root HP directory.

[bnlsg]

Version 1.84 is up!

I just changed the Startup_Genre setting and the behaviour of the Startup/Exit Program setting

 

[fuzzel]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="jasonsmith" data-cid="224719" data-time="1367930318"><p>
I start a batch file that turns my cab button leds on. There's also a batch file set to turn the leds off on exit. The .bat files are in the root HP directory.</p></blockquote>

So do you still get a crash with 1.85? I tried to reproduce your problem but with no luck.
Perhaps some local security options for .NET are kicking in?

Edited by fuzzel, 07 May 2013 - 01:08 PM.