MAMEWorld Forums - MAMEUI & IV/Play

Decided to give this a trial.
Windows 10 latest updates (can't use Windows 11 - none of my machines fits Microsoft's ridiculous criteria).

Made a new folder, downloaded MAME 0.253 from mamedev.org, extracted. Copied over some ini files from my usual MAME folder. Downloaded ivplay and extracted into the same new folder.

Double-clicked it, started up. Unable to run any game because I hadn't adjusted the ini files I'd copied over. The error from ivplay is in a new popup window that hides behind everything. Lucky I noticed the extra unlabelled button in the taskbar.

Fixed my mistakes, tried again, this time the games worked. Looked in the instructions, found F1 and changed colours etc, all good.

No icons or artwork, appears the folder locations to store these are hardcoded and cannot be changed. The instructions say this is the same as MAMEUI - maybe it was, a long time ago, but MAMEUI has evolved since then. MAMEUI uses the folders specified in ini\ui.ini (used by MAME's UI).

So, my suggestions are:
1. Make the error message popup be at the front instead of at the back, and give it a title (instead of blank);
2. Allow configurable paths for icons, snaps etc etc - perhaps by reading MAME's ui.ini

What do you think? Or is it too much trouble?

EDIT: more issues
1. Unable to get history to display - works in MAME.
2. The background picture changes with each start of ivplay - it seems to randomly choose one from the folder.

Edited by Robbbert (04/14/23 09:31 AM)