help adding screenshots to a screen

[Vintage1945]

hi all --

i am using colby skin 2 and need some assistance with setting up my nes/snes screens

I must not be getting this variable thing, cause i havent figured this out yet.

I have my games db and it displays the games and their respective boxarts just fine. The problem is trying to get the screenshots i have to show up when mousing over a game. There is a box in the supernes screen that is made for screenshots but i have tried forever to get it to work and cant.

here is how the directory is setup: c:\snes\screens
I created a new db named: snes_screens

Now i can manually add these shots through the db manager, but i know there is an easier way. I just don't know how to link the %display% name to the new db (snes_screens) and have it show up in the screens box in the supernes screen.

All the screenshots are named the same as the game files.

Any ideas?

Thanks All!

[Colby]

1945,

Did you try moving your screens into the skin folder and using the display as a variable for Skin://Colbyskin2/Screens/%display%.jpg
in a new db field?

I dont know if that will work; I didnt know you could link databases together, like youre trying to do.

IF you make a second database of screenshots then you could create and event to show the %variable% upon enter of the item. But that could be just as much work.

Or It seems to me you might be able to set up a metamask to import these screens automatically as you build your game db.

I guess the real question is how do we import 2 or more pictures for one db entry automatically? Anyone?
Intriguing I will look into it.

[Vintage1945]

hmmm....we can't just use the display variable and pass it to the screenshot box?