Program to launch on PinballX Shutdown (not Exit)

[escuco]

Hello!

I want to integrate a startup video (which works fine with the "Enable startup video") and a shutdown video:

http://www.klomp.de/index.php/virtueller-flipper-vpin-selber-bauen/homemade-virtual-pinball-cabinet-vpin/61-virtual-pinball-intro-video-startup-frontend-pinballx

At the moment, I'm using the "Exit program" function which starts a program on exit. I'm using VLC Video Lan Player to play the shutdown video.

But is there any way to play a video (or start a program like VLC) when shutting down PinballX and Windows (and not only on exit PinballX)?

Thanks in advance!

Jan

[horseyhorsey]

Standard autohotkey?

Load PinballX with a hotkeyscript which waits for PinballX to shutdown, then trigger the video, close script.

Something like:

Run, PinballX.exeWinWaitActive, PinballXWinWaitClose, PinballXRun, VLC.exe -MyVideo.mp4ExitApp

That is a guess ^^ but close to how it should be with AHK.

[escuco]

Standard autohotkey?

Load PinballX with a hotkeyscript which waits for PinballX to shutdown, then trigger the video, close script.

That is a guess ^^ but close to how it should be with AHK.

Thanks, horseyhorsey, I wondered if there is a way directly with PinballX, but I'll try it with AHK - I already used it on my arcade cab.

escuco

[tthurman]

Nice rig escuco!

Those intro / outro videos make for a nice custom touch!

[escuco]

Nice rig escuco!

Those intro / outro videos make for a nice custom touch!

Thanks! I finished my Visual Pinball Cab "escucos Little Joe" in the last weeks, if somebody is interested, here you'll find my building project page with some pictures and a cost report with sources of supply for the material I used:

http://www.klomp.de/index.php/virtueller-flipper-vpin-selber-bauen/homemade-virtual-pinball-cabinet-vpin

And here is a small video from the cab:

[tthurman]

Outstanding!

[brienj]

You can easily make a batch file to accomplish this, and I think it is not only the simplest method, but the one I would recommend. So just have PinballX launch the batch file after it exits.

@echo offVLC.exe "XXXXX"shutdown /s /f /t TTTTT

Replace XXXXX with your video name with full path. Replace TTTTT with the time in seconds of the length of the video, plus maybe 1 or 2 seconds. This is also assuming you use VLC as your video player. Just replace VLC.exe with whatever video player you choose to use.

[escuco]

You can easily make a batch file to accomplish this, and I think it is not only the simplest method, but the one I would recommend. So just have PinballX launch the batch file after it exits.

@echo offVLC.exe "XXXXX"shutdown /s /f /t TTTTT

Replace XXXXX with your video name with full path. Replace TTTTT with the time in seconds of the length of the video, plus maybe 1 or 2 seconds. This is also assuming you use VLC as your video player. Just replace VLC.exe with whatever video player you choose to use.

Thanks, another nice idea!

I'll give it a try. I think Windows will react to ctrl-x to abort the batch for the case, that I don't want to shutdown the machine after exiting PinballX. I like that solution more than installing another programm (e.g. AHK) on my machine.

[brienj]

Thanks, another nice idea!

I'll give it a try. I think Windows will react to ctrl-x to abort the batch for the case, that I don't want to shutdown the machine after exiting PinballX. I like that solution more than installing another programm (e.g. AHK) on my machine.

Once you run the shutdown command, you have to run "shutdown /a" in order to abort the shutdown process.