Yes, there is no apparent way to end some games when they are running. A keyboard shortcut to close the emulator for these problem games would be good!
At present, I have to bring up the Task Manager to close the emulator!
The ability to at least change the colour of the GUI (without having to change your Windows Theme) would be nice!
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GB v1.4 Feature requests
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- Pugsy
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If an emulator is running in full screen then pressing the standard windows key combination ALT+Enter together will switch the emulator to windowed mode and you will be able to find out how to close the emulator down and do other stuff. Generally of course most windows programs honour the default windows close key combination of ALT+F4.
I think you need to know how to shut down whichever emulator you are running rather than it being a GameBase feature, it's not GameBase's job to keep track of which emulators you have open!William Moore wrote:Yes, there is no apparent way to end some games when they are running. A keyboard shortcut to close the emulator for these problem games would be good!
At present, I have to bring up the Task Manager to close the emulator!
If an emulator is running in full screen then pressing the standard windows key combination ALT+Enter together will switch the emulator to windowed mode and you will be able to find out how to close the emulator down and do other stuff. Generally of course most windows programs honour the default windows close key combination of ALT+F4.
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- William Moore
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Fair enough! But when you know how to do something, it is easy, when you don't know, you need help!
So thanks for the help!
So thanks for the help!
- Flarp
- Keen Member
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Is there any way where I could tell Gamebase to just switch file formats for my games? For example for my SNES project I just started using BSNES.. (which is awesome) and it can handle .7z files and the new Gamebase also has .7zip support so I used a wonderful free program I just found and might help others "Arc them all" to covert all my SNES games from .zip to .7z to save a little space but now I have to go through all 900 some of them in Gamebase and repoint each individual game to it's new renamed converted counterpart.. what a pain in the... But other than .7z instead of .zip at the end the game files are all named the same and in the same place.. can't I just tell Gamebase.. okay look for the same file names you did before but only look for them in .7z format? I hope I'm explaining this well. This would save me so much time and would probably help others as well.
- .mad.
- Honoured Member
- Location: Lancashire
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@Flarp
for now, you can change the extention of the Filename in Access.
Highlight the Filename column by clicking on it.
then from menu bar select Edit, Replace.
and use these options.
Find What: .7z
Replace With: .zip
Look In: = Filename
Match: = Any Part of Field
Search: = All
then click the Replace All button.
if you don't have Microsoft Access,
send me the MDB file and i will do it for you.
for now, you can change the extention of the Filename in Access.
Highlight the Filename column by clicking on it.
then from menu bar select Edit, Replace.
and use these options.
Find What: .7z
Replace With: .zip
Look In: = Filename
Match: = Any Part of Field
Search: = All
then click the Replace All button.
if you don't have Microsoft Access,
send me the MDB file and i will do it for you.
- Vicman
- Cool Member
- Location: Germany
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Hi Jimbo,
it would be nice to have an X-tra TAB for additional Infos.
I know, that it is possible to "rename" the existing Fields,
but i need more Fields....
So, a "freely usable" TAB (or maybe more...) should make sense
There is enough space for this on the GUI, i think.
what do you think ?
Example:
it would be nice to have an X-tra TAB for additional Infos.
I know, that it is possible to "rename" the existing Fields,
but i need more Fields....
So, a "freely usable" TAB (or maybe more...) should make sense
There is enough space for this on the GUI, i think.
what do you think ?
Example:
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- K.C.
- Cool Member
- Location: The Netherlands
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Not a feature request, but a small bug.
Environment variables are case sensitive, where they shouldn't be.
Example:
After setting this key=value pair:
TestKey=Test Message
This GEMUS code doesn't work:
It only displays Test Message if there aren't any capitals in %testkey_value%. In the example above a message box is displayed with %TestKey_Value% in it.
However, Key_TestKey properly isn't case sensitive, %TestKey_value% should behave the same way.
Environment variables are case sensitive, where they shouldn't be.
Example:
After setting this key=value pair:
TestKey=Test Message
This GEMUS code doesn't work:
Code: Select all
If Key_TestKey CONTAINS(*)
Show_Message(%TestKey_Value%)
End If
However, Key_TestKey properly isn't case sensitive, %TestKey_value% should behave the same way.
- K.C.
- Cool Member
- Location: The Netherlands
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Another GEMUS-related issue (or am I overlooking something?):
When using this script:
and setting Supported Native File Types to d64;g64
The script returns "multiple game files!" when started from a Zip file containing 2 D64 files, but returns "Just one game file!" if the Zip file contains 2 G64 files.
In other words: "NumGameFiles > 1" is always false when I use G64 disk images, even if I specify G64 as a supported native file type.
When using this script:
Code: Select all
If NumGameFiles > 1
Show_Message(multiple game files!)
Else
Show_Message(Just one game file!)
End If
The script returns "multiple game files!" when started from a Zip file containing 2 D64 files, but returns "Just one game file!" if the Zip file contains 2 G64 files.
In other words: "NumGameFiles > 1" is always false when I use G64 disk images, even if I specify G64 as a supported native file type.
- Vicman
- Cool Member
- Location: Germany
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Well, don't know if it is possible......
When i have more than one name in the Field Coding....
example :
Game 1 :
Coding: john, bob, bill, james
Game 2:
Coding : ben, bob, paul
now, i want list all games coded by bob...
but this don't work....'cause the "search objekt" when clicking on bob is :
[coding = *john, bob, bill, james*]
is there a way, to list all games coded by bob ?
hope you understand the problem....
When i have more than one name in the Field Coding....
example :
Game 1 :
Coding: john, bob, bill, james
Game 2:
Coding : ben, bob, paul
now, i want list all games coded by bob...
but this don't work....'cause the "search objekt" when clicking on bob is :
[coding = *john, bob, bill, james*]
is there a way, to list all games coded by bob ?
hope you understand the problem....
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- Pugsy
- GB64 Team
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It's a single field so there's no way of just clicking the field to pick one of the programmers.
The easiest solution is just press CTRL+Q for a quick filter and change the field to programmer and enter the programmer name you want. Not as easy as clicking on the field name but it's still pretty simple.
The easiest solution is just press CTRL+Q for a quick filter and change the field to programmer and enter the programmer name you want. Not as easy as clicking on the field name but it's still pretty simple.
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