Autohotkey/Pinball FX2

[rhymin]

Hello everyone, new user here, hoping you can assist me with an annoying problem?

So i'm using an x-arcade tankstick with GameEx, works great with mame, snes, genesis etc and the steam games I have tried so far. But im having a problem with configuring Pinball FX2 to use the particular buttons I want, the side flipper buttons funnily enough!

Annoyingly, Pinball FX2 does not let you bind keys. So after much googling for a solution, i finally worked out how to make an autohotkey script, which just makes left flipper(keyboard 3 as default) lshift, the command is (3::lshift)

This works fine if i activate it manually, but im trying to make ,y GameEx setup as nice as possbile for n00bs, so;

Is there a way in gameex to start the script before launch and stop it afterwards, so it doesn't conflict with all the other games?

I have set up Pinball FX2 as a seperate 'windows' emulator but i cant figure out what command i need to put into the launch before and after boxes to start and stop the autohotkey script.

Many Thanks, Neil

[Tempest]

You can use the launch before command to run the script. In the launch after you can use taskkill /IM name of your script.ahk to terminate the script. Depending on your OS, the command might be tskill, you can google to find out which, or try one and then the other.

[rhymin]

Awesome, thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow evening

[rhymin]

I added the lines you suggested but the game launches, hear a windows error sound, then it goes back to GameEx but the game is still in the background minimized.

I then added a steam shortcut to Mortal Kombat in the same manner as I set up Pinball FX2 and that did the same thing.

So it appears the problem lies with how I have set up the steam shortcuts rather than your suggestion.

Please see links below to my setup screens, any help would be much appreciated.

Neil

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5044789/Capture1.PNG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5044789/Capture2.PNG

[Tempest]

I am not familiar with Pinball FX2, but is the command line correct?
Turn on debugging, and see if it provides any useful information.