[Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Julian Sikorski
Hi. I got used to gxmame and was sad when I saw it no longer functions with 0.84 due to lack of -listinfo. Have a look at this (fragment of mameio.c from gxmame-0.34b) /* Generate the list */ /* without including neither history nor mameinfo to have less to parse after*/ opt=g_strdup_pr

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Lawrence Gold
Julian Sikorski wrote: Hi. I got used to gxmame and was sad when I saw it no longer functions with 0.84 due to lack of -listinfo. Have a look at this (fragment of mameio.c from gxmame-0.34b) /* Generate the list */ /* without including neither history nor mameinfo to have less to parse aft

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Julian Sikorski
Lawrence Gold wrote: You might be able to simply substitute "-listxml %s | xml2info" for "-listinfo %s" in the above code. It doesn't work. Sorry to bother you, but shadow_walker doesn't respond. ___ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.tw

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Nicos Panayides
On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 11:58 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote: > Lawrence Gold wrote: > > > You might be able to simply substitute "-listxml %s | xml2info" for > > "-listinfo %s" in the above code. > > > It doesn't work. Sorry to bother you, but shadow_walker doesn't respond. > I can't speak for t

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Matthias Saou
Nicos Panayides wrote : > I can't speak for the rest of the gxmame developers but I don't have the > time right now to fix it. If you want to see this fixed ASAP, send us > patches. If you are gonna use an xml library please use libxml2 which is > used by gtk anyway. > > Give us a couple of week

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread lordzanon
Użytkownik Matthias Saou napisał: >Well, xmame 0.84 isn\'t out yet, so I guess the real bugging hasn\'t surfaced >yet... I know I\'ll also be lost and miserable when gxmame will stop working >;-) > You can build it for yourself - port mame 0.84u3 and use unix folder from mess cvs. Detailed instru

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Lawrence Gold
Julian Sikorski wrote: Lawrence Gold wrote: You might be able to simply substitute "-listxml %s | xml2info" for "-listinfo %s" in the above code. It doesn't work. Sorry to bother you, but shadow_walker doesn't respond. Attached is a patch that works. Note that you need to have xml2info somewhere

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread handsomepete
Thanks Lawrence. Works great. Lawrence Gold wrote: > Julian Sikorski wrote: > > Lawrence Gold wrote: > > > >> You might be able to simply substitute "-listxml %s | xml2info" for > >> "-listinfo %s" in the above code. > > > > It doesn't work. Sorry to bother you, but shadow_walker doesn't resp

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:39:25 -0500 handsomepete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Lawrence. Works great. It does? It segfaults about halfway through rebuilding the gamelist here. ___ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.u

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-17 Thread Julian Sikorski
Lawrence Gold wrote: Attached is a patch that works. Note that you need to have xml2info somewhere in your path (e.g., /usr/local/bin). To apply it, cd into the gxmame directory and run patch -p1 < /path/to/gxmame-xml-patch You are superior. ___

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Pierre Maziere
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:39:25 -0500 handsomepete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Lawrence. Works great. It does? It segfaults about halfway through rebuilding the gamelist here. Rather than patching your existing xmame-0.83.1 build tree, recompile xmame fro

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Julian Sikorski
Pierre Maziere wrote: Rather than patching your existing xmame-0.83.1 build tree, recompile xmame from a clean tree, and it won't segfaults At least, that's what happens for me Isn't it a patch for gxmame? ___ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Pierre Maziere
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Julian Sikorski wrote: Pierre Maziere wrote: Rather than patching your existing xmame-0.83.1 build tree, recompile xmame from a clean tree, and it won't segfaults At least, that's what happens for me Isn't it a patch for gxmame? yes, but it only affects the way xmame is calle

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Julian Sikorski
Pierre Maziere wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Julian Sikorski wrote: Pierre Maziere wrote: Rather than patching your existing xmame-0.83.1 build tree, recompile xmame from a clean tree, and it won't segfaults At least, that's what happens for me Isn't it a patch for gxmame? yes, but it only affects

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:33:46 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Maziere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When i patched xmame 0.83.1 and recompiled xmame from this pre build > tree, i had an illegal instruction error when using -listxml option. > This makes gxmame unable to built the games list. > Recompiling xmame

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Paul Priest
Frank Cox wrote: Not for me. xmame.x11 -listxml works fine; gives me the list from start to end. gxmame "rebuild game list" segfaults in the middle of the job. So it appears to be something on the gxmame end of things, not the xmame end, that's blowing up. Just a guess, try moving mameinfo.dat

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:34:01 -0600 Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xmame.x11 -listxml works fine; gives me the list from start to end. > > gxmame "rebuild game list" segfaults in the middle of the job. So it > appears to be something on the gxmame end of things, not the xmame end, > that'

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:07:23 +0100 Paul Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a guess, try moving mameinfo.dat and history.dat out of your MAME > dir. Lawrence's patch removed the bit that set the path to these to > /dev/null. > > Otherwise all that text gets dumped in the -listxml output and

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-18 Thread Lawrence Gold
Paul Priest wrote: Just a guess, try moving mameinfo.dat and history.dat out of your MAME dir. Lawrence's patch removed the bit that set the path to these to /dev/null. Otherwise all that text gets dumped in the -listxml output and gxmame might not be able to cope with it. Here's an improved patch

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-29 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:08 pm, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:34:01 -0600 > > Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > xmame.x11 -listxml works fine; gives me the list from start to end. > > > > gxmame "rebuild game list" segfaults in the middle of the job. So it > > appears to be som

Re: [Xmame] Frontend question

2004-07-29 Thread Doug Holland
On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:38 am, Doug Holland wrote: > > Well, after applying the patch, (as found on the xmame web page), gxmame > now works, but it doesn't display mameinfo.dat data - just a blank sidebar > with my screenshots. Could it be that there are multiple places in gxmame > that depend