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Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)?
11/16/18 11:46 PM


> > ... that isn't the point.
> >
> > My point is, why does disabling the shift display inside mame not disable it in
> > screenshots without having to use this command line option?
>
> Because tying the snapshots view to the currently selected view for the window would
> be an absolute nightmare during development/debugging, and it would collapse in a
> heap the moment you run with multiple windows/screens as render targets so there
> isn't a single selected view, there's one per render target. It would be
> theoretically possible to allow the user to select the snapshot view with a menu, but
> there are complications like what happens if you try to change it while AVI/MNG
> recording is in progress.

That's a very good explanation. Since I'm just a typical user, I had no idea it was this complicated. Thank you.







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Foxhack 11/04/18 03:07 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Vas Crabb  11/04/18 04:16 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Foxhack  11/04/18 04:39 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? R. Belmont  11/14/18 05:53 PM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Foxhack  11/14/18 08:38 PM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? asasega  11/15/18 10:50 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Foxhack  11/15/18 07:57 PM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Vas Crabb  11/16/18 03:04 PM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Foxhack  11/16/18 11:46 PM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? RobbbertModerator  11/04/18 03:50 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Foxhack  11/04/18 04:10 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? Bad A Billy  11/14/18 07:41 AM
. * Re: How do you disable shifter display in screenshots (racing games)? MooglyGuy  11/14/18 08:26 AM

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