Assigning analog triggers to Next Page/Letter makes application unresponsive to inputs
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Using v3.0.8, compiled on Ubuntu 24.04
- The "Next Page" & "Next Letter" controls scroll to the very end of the game list. Once it reaches the last item on the list, AttractMode Plus stops responding to all inputs
- "Previous Page" & "Previous Letter" respond as expected
I'm unable to reproduce this. Next Page and Next Letter are working as expected on my machine.
Checked on Windows and on Arch Linux.
Hmm... Not sure if it's related to the wheel or some other aspect of the theme I'm using..
Using the "At The Arcade" theme from the pack available here: http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3289.msg30534#msg30534
Will try to do some more troubleshooting...
Does it malfunction on any layout or just when using the wheel.nut?
It also affects the "Basic" theme, so apparently not wheel related...
Here's my attract.cfg...
display Favorites
layout Basic
romlist MAME
in_cycle yes
in_menu yes
filter Games
rule Favourite equals 1
display High Score Competition
layout At-The-Arcade Atomiswave
romlist High Score Competition
in_cycle no
in_menu yes
filter Games
rule Favourite equals 1
display Hall of Fame Games
layout At-The-Arcade Atomiswave
romlist AKNF
in_cycle yes
in_menu yes
filter Games
rule Favourite equals 1
sound
sound_volume 60
ambient_volume 60
movie_volume 50
input_map
next_display W
left Left
left Joy0 PovXneg
right Right
right Joy0 PovXpos
add_favourite LShift
add_favourite Joy0 Button2
down Down
down Joy0 PovYpos
up Up
up Joy0 PovYneg
select Return
select LControl
select Joy0 Button0
select Joy0 Button9
back Escape
back LAlt
back Joy0 Button1
back Joy0 Button10
configure Tab
configure Joy1 Button9
prev_letter Joy0 Button4
prev_page Joy0 Button5
screen_saver Joy1 Button10
next_page Joy0 Zpos
next_letter Joy0 Rpos
default back exit
default up prev_game
default down next_game
default left prev_display
default right next_display
general
language en
exit_command
exit_message Quit to Desktop?
ui_font_size
screen_saver_timeout 600
displays_menu_exit yes
hide_brackets no
group_clones yes
startup_mode default
confirm_favourites yes
confirm_exit yes
mouse_threshold 10
joystick_threshold 75
window_mode default
screen_rotation none
anti_aliasing 2
anisotropic 2
filter_wrap_mode default
track_usage yes
multiple_monitors yes
smooth_images yes
selection_max_step 128
selection_speed_ms 40
move_mouse_on_launch yes
scrape_snaps yes
scrape_marquees yes
scrape_flyers no
scrape_wheels yes
scrape_fanart no
scrape_videos yes
scrape_overview yes
thegamesdb_key
power_saving no
video_decoder
menu_prompt Displays Menu
menu_layout At-The-Arcade Atomiswave
image_cache_mbytes 100
saver_config
param basic_movie Yes
param blank_start_cmd
param blank_stop_cmd
param blank_time 120
param image_collage No
param movie_collage Yes
param overlay_art wheel
param preserve_ar Yes
param rgb_movie No
param sound Yes
layout_config At-The-Arcade Atomiswave
param enable_Lmarquee Yes
param enable_ambience It's 1992
param enable_bg_scanline No
param enable_bloom No
param enable_colors No
param enable_crt_scanline Light
param enable_crt_scratches Yes
param enable_crt_screenglow Medium
param enable_favstar Right of Wheel
param enable_frame Yes
param enable_game_manu Title Only
param enable_gameinfo Info and Enumerate
param enable_gboxart No
param enable_gcartart No
param enable_gmarquee Marquee
param enable_image Retro Animated
param enable_ini_anim Yes
param enable_nav_sound No
param enable_pointer No
param enable_song_title No
param enable_verticlesnap Yes
param enable_wl_bg No
param ini_anim_trans_ms 1000
param letters_type Default
param music_path
param music_play_method Shuffle
param mute_videos No
param paramxx0
param paramxx1
param paramxx2
param paramxx3
param paramxx4
param paramxx5
param paramxx6
param paramxx7
param paramxx8
param scrlDelay 2000
param scrlSpeed 0.2
param set_ms_delay 1000
param set_music_delay 100
param song_title_time 3000
param transition_ms 300
param user_nextsong_key Custom5
param user_prevsong_key Custom4
param user_search_boxsize Small
param user_search_key Custom1
param wheel_fade_ms 500
param wheel_fadeout No
param wheel_logo_aspect Yes
param wheel_poisition Adjust Right
param wheel_pulse Once
param wheel_slots 9
param wheel_type Round
plugin SpecificDisplay
enabled no
param display Hall of Fame Games
param trigger
plugin ResFix
enabled yes
param emulators
plugin UtilityMenu
enabled no
plugin KonamiCode
enabled no
plugin KeyboardSearch
enabled yes
param results_mode Show Results
param trigger Custom1
plugin LaunchDecorator
enabled yes
param scriptExtensions sh
param scriptRoot $HOME/scripts
plugin FadeToGame
enabled yes
param fromGameRunTime 500
param toGameRunTime 500
plugin MultiMon
enabled yes
param mon2_art wheel
param mon2_height 600
param mon2_preserve_aspect_ratio Yes
param mon2_width 1024
param mon2_x 0
param mon2_y 0
plugin History.dat
enabled no
param button Joy1 Button10
param dat_path $HOME/.mame/history.dat
param generate_index
param index_clones Yes
param rows 30
plugin Wheel Navigator
enabled no
plugin RocketLauncher
enabled no
plugin AudioMode
enabled no
param dir
param info_button
param skip_button
<\details>
I don't see anything abnormal in your cfg file. Btw it's better to just drag and drop the file because it's hard to read, the whole whitespace formatting is gone. Do you see anything abnormal in the console or last_run.log?
Here's a debug log of hitting previous page a couple times, and then next page. Inputs got stuck, so I then Alt-F4 exited...
Handling command: prev_page
[Transition] type=ToNewSelection, var=-11
[Transition] type=FromOldSelection, var=11
FFmpeg: Reinit context to 320x240, pix_fmt: yuv420p
End Video Thread - /home/arcade/.mame/videos/pengo.mp4
- bit_rate=58019, width=240, height=320
- displayed=12
- average qscore=14
[Transition] type=EndNavigation, var=0
Initializing resampler: in_sample_fmt=fltp, in_sample_rate=48000, out_sample_fmt=s16, out_sample_rate=48000
FFmpeg: Reinit context to 320x240, pix_fmt: yuv420p
Handling command: next_page
[Transition] type=ToNewSelection, var=11
[Transition] type=FromOldSelection, var=-11
[Transition] type=ToNewSelection, var=11
[Transition] type=FromOldSelection, var=-11
End Video Thread - /home/arcade/.mame/videos/mslug2.mp4
- bit_rate=445542, width=320, height=240
- displayed=457
- average qscore=15
[Transition] type=EndLayout, var=2
Attract-Mode ended normally
Hmm, the log says that Attract-Mode ended normally so it contradicts with your statement that AttractMode Plus stops responding to all inputs
The UI stops responding. It gets stuck with the last item in the list selected.
I can, however, Alt-Tab to open Ubuntu's app switcher, then Alt-F4 from there to exit AttractMode.
Here's a full debug log from the terminal.
- Open Attract Mode Plus.
- Hit Previous Page a few times.
- Hit Next Page (AMP then scrolls to last item in list and gets stuck there)
- Hit the Exit key a few times, and it doesn't respond.
- Hit Alt-Tab then Alt-F4 to exit
Please check your key mappings. You have in your attract.cfg the following:
prev_page Joy0 Button5
next_page Joy0 Zpos
Confirm if the problem persist when you have it set to:
prev_page PageUp
next_page PageDown
So have you figured this out? Is it a bug or wrong config?
I remapped to PgUp/PgDn, and it appears to work correctly. Good catch.
It seems that the program doesn't play nice with inputs from gamepad analog triggers for whatever reason. (In my case, it's actually a standard arcade button switch mapped to the gamepad analog trigger on an IPAC-2 control interface board)
Will investigate the triggers mappings. Thanks.
I've checked AM+ on Arch Linux with wireless XBox One controller. I've mapped the following as in your config
prev_page Joy0 Button5
next_page Joy0 Rpos
Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce the problem you are having.
The triggers are analog on an actual gamepad.
Does AM+ perhaps consider Joy0 RPos as active until a corresponding Joy0 RNeg is triggered?
Because the trigger is mapped to a digital button input using the IPAC-2 arcade controller, that does not happen as it would on an actual gamepad.
Can't you configure ipac to not emulate the xbox controller but a standard gamepad? If it's working fine with normal xbox controller I can only assume that IPac xbox emulation is to blame.
Is this still being an issue?