Inducer questions

[joe]

i have several questions regarding dreaminducer syntax and meaning that were not directly addressed in the new relase

How do i put background music in my menu?

What does the 'A' parameter do?

in the theme file what does "number of elements" correspond to?
<LAYOUT ELEMENTS="NUMBER OF ELEMENTS">

in the intro files what do the "DELAY" and "NOFADEOUT" parameters do?
<IMAGE SRC="/cd/intro/gsbanner.png" DELAY='180'/>
<IMAGE SRC="/cd/intro/loading.png" DELAY='0' NOFADEOUT='1'/>

thats it for now. thanks in advance for your help.

[kRYPT_]

i have several questions regarding dreaminducer syntax and meaning that were not directly addressed in the new relase

How do i put background music in my menu?

Not in this release.

What does the 'A' parameter do?

Alpha, or opacity. 0-255, an integer that specifies the "transparency" of the item.

in the theme file what does "number of elements" correspond to?
<LAYOUT ELEMENTS="NUMBER OF ELEMENTS">

The number of items inside the <LAYOUT> tag

in the intro files what do the "DELAY" and "NOFADEOUT" parameters do?
<IMAGE SRC="/cd/intro/gsbanner.png" DELAY='180'/>
<IMAGE SRC="/cd/intro/loading.png" DELAY='0' NOFADEOUT='1'/>

Delay is how long to show on the screen for, NOFADEOUT prevents the picture from fading out (NOFADEIN prevents it from fading in).

thats it for now. thanks in advance for your help.

No problemo.

[joe]

cool thanks a bunch.
1 question though:
for A: does it become more a solid color the higher or the lower the number is. like if i wanted a completely red color that was compleltly solid would i set it at 255 or 0?

thanks for your help; and one more question.. is the 1st_read.bin for the DI disc just a copy of inducer.bin?

thanks man.

[kRYPT_]

Now that I don't remember. I think solid is 255, but don't quote me on that.

1st_read.bin should be a scrambled copy of inducer.bin ..

cool thanks a bunch.
1 question though:
for A: does it become more a solid color the higher or the lower the number is. like if i wanted a completely red color that was compleltly solid would i set it at 255 or 0?

thanks for your help; and one more question.. is the 1st_read.bin for the DI disc just a copy of inducer.bin?

thanks man.

[joe]

another question:
is there a way to exit out of a selection within DreamInducer. Like say i had i had smeg on my DI disc and i selected it, played whatever and i then wanted tog et back to the DI menu. Is there a special key bind or something i need to press to get back to the menu or do i have to reset the DC?

[kRYPT_]

This is emu specific. I believe SMEG does indeed allow you to do this, but I cannot recall the key combination that must be pressed (check it's README).

another question:
is there a way to exit out of a selection within DreamInducer. Like say i had i had smeg on my DI disc and i selected it, played whatever and i then wanted tog et back to the DI menu. Is there a special key bind or something i need to press to get back to the menu or do i have to reset the DC?

[joe]

no i mean get back to the dreaminducer menu. like this:
on my DreamInducer disc i have this:
SMEG, gnuboy, nester, homebrew games,etc.
i select nester fomr the Dreaminducer menu; i pick my rom whatever play it, and quit it and im back to nester's menu; i want to get out of nester totally and get back to the Dreaminducer menu to pick another application like smeg. is there a way to do this with out reseting the DC and seleceting it from the dreaminducer menu again?

[pavelbure]

no. you must reset