Gorka Olaizola wrote: > I have configures Zsnes to play some roms and I have found a problem > with the way the stop method works. > The stop method kills the child that Freevo has created to run zsnes. > This way Zsnes seems to not save the state of the game and for example > "Super Mario world" starts always from the beginning.
The current code can send stuff to stdin of an app. > Using the Xtest extension of Xwindow it is possible to send fake > keypresses to the game and exit the game cleanly. > > I have used the library keycontrol that can be found this link > http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000037.html in the archive > http://www.hackdiary.com/src/blueremote-1.0.tar.gz > > The blueremote.py is no useful for Freevo as it does the same as the > bluetooth plugin (by the way, the name conflicts with the bluez > bindings. I think it's better to change it) > > > I compiled the keycontrol library, copied to kaa/input and override the > method stop in the Emu Class. > > > def stop(self): > """ > Stop the Application. > """ > if hasattr(CONF, 'display') and CONF.display == 'x11': > kaa.input.keycontrol.tapkey('ESC') > log.debug('Faking the press of key ESC') > else: > log.debug('Trying to kill the child') > if self.has_child(): > self.child_stop() > > > > This is a preliminar code that I have used to test that it works. I > would like to add another field to the GAMES_ITEMS structure with the key > code that a particular game uses to exit. > If it's None the method should exit with the self.child_stop() method > as before. It should be possible too to add a timer to kill the game if > the keypressing does not work. > > Do you think it's a good addition to the games plugin? I have no idea what a good addition to the games plugin is, but this feature sound like you need it, so send a patch. But make sure freevo installs without it since games itself is optional. Dischi -- This message was sent to you via email in much the same way bricks aren't.
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