MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Anyone interested in an up to date Mac port?

I have to agree with RB...and I have a suggestion.

The OS X port of M+GUI was an awesome MAME front end while it was under active development - however, since MAME 0.140, once it's done pulling the list of supported games from the mame executable, it crashes:

Code:


Process:         mamepgui [478]
Path:            /Users/Sune/Play/MAME/mamepgui.app/Contents/MacOS/mamepgui
Identifier:      com.yourcompany.mamepgui
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [189]

Date/Time:       2011-08-30 21:08:31.930 -0300
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version:  6

Interval Since Last Report:          447235 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           7
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  91 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Anonymous UUID:                      6A1F7580-5FCA-4325-8E8E-A8F3CEB4DF38

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000061745320
Crashed Thread:  Unknown

Backtrace not available

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
  eax: 0x61745320  ebx: 0x00068011  ecx: 0x0f4441f4  edx: 0x0f4441e0
  edi: 0x0f4441f4  esi: 0x00880578  ebp: 0xbfffe3c8  esp: 0xbfffe3b0
   ss: 0x00000023  efl: 0x00010282  eip: 0x0063ef44   cs: 0x0000001b
   ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
  cr2: 0x61745320

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It's still possible to get it to start. To use M+GUI with the latest MAME I have to first delete ~/.mamepgui (a hidden folder containing the gamelist cache and M+GUI configuration file). Then move mame.ini out of the mame folder for the first launch, otherwise M+GUI crashes..quit, then put it back in, relaunch...and then comes the most boring part, I have to configure M+GUI from the ground up all over again. From then on, until I update MAME, it works perfectly.

Additionally, M+GUI is not as Apple-GUI-guidelines-compliant as I guess most Mac users would like it to be. For example there are no "quit" and "hide" in the drop down menus and command-q and command-h don't work. But apart from those and a few other (very minor, mostly cosmetic) issues, M+GUI is excellent.
Unfortunately nobody works on the OS X port of M+GUI anymore. Maybe you would be interested in improving on it?

Source code: http://mameicons.free.fr/mame32p/download.htm (scroll down to "Experimental Projects")
Forum: http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/pos...p;view=expanded

Procyon discovered why M+GUI crashes if you don't move mame.ini:
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sho...part=1&vc=1

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