Content Provider gtxjoe Posted January 21, 2016 Author Content Provider Share Posted January 21, 2016 Pinballx has to give up control of the PIN2DMD at some point, so vpinMame can take over for DMD roms. What if you delay sending the pin2dmd.exe /i picture.ppm a little. This might allow you to use the regular PinballX dll. This autohotkey script, save it to a ahk file and call it instead of pin2dmd.exe. It should wait for the Visual Pinball Player to start (it will wait up to 20 seconds) then delay for 2 more seconds and then send the pin2DMD command. I havent tried it but that's the basic approach. Delete the line with Msgbox - its just a check to see what it gets from pinballx TableName = %1% Msgbox %TableName% WinWaitActive, Visual Pinball Player, , 20 Sleep, 2000 Run, pin2dmd.exe /i "%TableName%.ppm",,UseErrorLevel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 22, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted January 22, 2016 File open error... I assume the AHK goes in the pin2dmd folder? Or did I screw something up - it seems to wait the full time before giving up though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 22, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted January 22, 2016 Added a lot more table logos to dropbox... pbx needs to hurry up and add support! Here's a sample Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Content Provider gtxjoe Posted January 23, 2016 Author Content Provider Share Posted January 23, 2016 Its the weekend, had time to look at this. Got the autohotkey load logo to work by waiting until PinballX released the DMD control (no custom xdmd.dll), so at least while browsing tables you still have something on the dmd. I have the DMD palette set to red and using the "Real DMD videos" on the Pinballx forums Here is the script assuming you have the ppm files in the pin2dmd folder. Save it as pin2dmdloadimage.ahk TableName = %1% WinWaitActive, Visual Pinball Player, , 20 Run, pin2dmd.exe /i "%TableName%.ppm",,UseErrorLevel Here is the required Pinballx settings and the video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Nice one gtxjoe!!!!! + freneticamnesic!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampirolatino2 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Shall we play a game? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 24, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted January 24, 2016 I like your loading gif gtxjoe! lol did you goof on loading 24? the score display never came up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider gtxjoe Posted January 24, 2016 Author Content Provider Share Posted January 24, 2016 It was just a demo video using two of your color ppm imges. I guess that 24 ppm is not useful until we can load them while browsing tables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Pinballx can show pictures on dmd.. I converted all the images from freneticamnesic from ppm to png and putted them in a folder called "Real DMD Images" in my medias folders and it works while browsing tables. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98865673/Real%20DMD%20Images.rar Edit : fixed link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 29, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted January 29, 2016 Two things don't work: 1) your link 2) what you described yes an image appears on the dmd, and yes it has color, but it absolutely does not have the colors defined in the PPM image. If I wanted psychadelic colored dots on my DMD I could just load up any Real DMD Videos I used to use, which work in the same way that your PNGs work.... it's not ideal Pinballx can show pictures on dmd.. I converted all the images from freneticamnesic from ppm to png and putted them in a folder called "Real DMD Images" in my medias folders and it works while browsing tables. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98865673/Real%20DMD%20Images.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gech Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I'll fix the link as soon as I get home.. I'm at work. There is no hurry anyway as it doesn't works as expected.. Nevermind ... I would have tried... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted February 10, 2016 Content Provider Share Posted February 10, 2016 A workaround for PinballX is soon available http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2418-pin2dmd-pinballx-full-color-real-dmd-support/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlson18 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 I tried to convert some pics to the ppm format use gimp scaled the picture to 128 x 32 and exported to ppm there are two Options ascii or bianery none of the picture will be displayed. Error Wrong file format, so what to do get this working? Greetings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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