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[ATOMIZE202012]

hi guys I'm Nick and I'm new to all this pinball stuff like a week old my skills are very limited iv got pinball fx3 running with animated backglass via doflinx ect working fine..now I want to do this lol ....

 

I'm very much a guy who likes to simplify things now having to install doflinx pinup visual pinball ect it gave me a big headache and it really needs to be done in a simplified way I mean if pinball fx allowed video files on backglass I'm sure life would be million times better for us all but hey they like us spending hours reading forums trying to figure out how to do it when with a simple bit of code video files could be used in pinball fx but nooooo.

So iv came up with a simple way of running videos on the backglass with pinballs fx dmd still on the backglass overlaying the video and it boots straight to the table no main menu or navigating to the table you wanna play..

The video is on a loop the play table is as it is dot matrix is on backglasx overlaying the video it loook normal only problem is when I go to exit the table...now when I exit the table and exit the game the video on the backglass exits aswell which is good but I don't wanna go from exiting the table navigate back to start then exit i just wanna assign a key to batch file that kills vlc play and pinball fx now i have that batch file it works great but I can't assign hotkey to that batch so I then could assign that hotkey to a button on my cab so it kills vlc and pinball back to windows desktop or a program that is running in background that will have all the tables on with video animation or whatever I like so when I press the table I want it boots up batch file loads the video backglass and pinball fx table ?...sounds cool to me but I'm stuck

Any help please guys on hotkey to bind to exe.  well its a batch file now making a shortcut and right clicking doing it that way dont work when your in pinball fx ctl alt + f short cut hotkey dont work

[scutters]

Hi Nick, welcome to the hobby!

I've read your question a couple of times, but sorry not sure if i understand it. It sounds like you have two batch files one to launch with a table and one to launch on close.

PinballX has launch before and after options that sound like what you want, but you may not have got as far as loading / configuring the front end yet?

[ATOMIZE202012]

Hi and thank you sorry for my grammar English is bad even tho I'm English lol

 

Ok what I need is a way to bind key to open run whatever batch file that kills vlc player and pinball fx3 .exe at same time the batch file iv made works but how do I hotkey it so I can press a key on my keyboard which will be emulatored to cabinet buttons so its like exit button on the cabinet ? Do you get me..

 

Right click the batch file making shortcut then adding hotkeys dont work its like you cant press ctl+alt + whatever key I wanted I picked E so the shortcut hotkey would be ctl+alt+E when I want to exit pinball table but it dont work 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Maybe a stupid question (and thats because I'm  Dutch), but why you want to bind a key to kill fx3 and vlc player?

Why not using the exit key from pbx that will end the emulator (so fx3 in your case) and usinf a "launch after" batch file to kill vlc ?

[ATOMIZE202012]

The reason why I need a hotkey to a batch file thats got the commands to kill vlc.exe and pinball fx3.exe is because after I boot a table and when that table loads it loads straight to the table with the correct backglass video playing it does not load to the home screen pinball fx3 then pick your table I want to miss all this out..

I've done all that the tables load fine with the backglass videos missing all the home screen selection stuff but I can't exit pinball fx3 from why playing it and thats what I need so I was thinking of adding a hotkey to a batch file that kills pinball fx3 processor..

Its the hotkey bit I'm stuck in when the batch file is open and it kills vlc and pinball it goes back to desktop but in my case it will go back to my new front end il be making 

The hotkey let's say is E on my keyboard when I set joytokey to emulate my cabinet buttons i should be able to add E to a button and that will be my exit game button 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Yes. The purpose of a front end is to skipp the loading menus in the actual emulator.

That how I use fx3 as well. For every table selection, I use pbx to select.

If I switch from table, I press the exit button that is defoned on pinballx.

This kills the fx3 process, and lsunches for me a batch fill, that cleans up some stuff (checks for example if doflinx is still runnimg, closes dmdext is still exist etc)

So, not sure why you want a key mapped for hotkey, as a batch file can be run when you ecit a table

(As I said, I'm Dutch. I'm pretty slow to understand, but willing to help )

[ATOMIZE202012]

how do you exit a table without pressing ESC then quit which then loads back to pinball fx3 homescreen which i dont want it to do i just want to exit the table right out ...can this be done ? 

i dont want to install pinup popper or anything like that trying to keep this simple as possible so a hotkey to batch file would be perfect or  anyway to run batch file why playing pinball fx from press of button on front of the cabinet this is what im aiming for thank you for your time

[ATOMIZE202012]

SOLVED!!!!

 

ok done it guys with autohotkey script woooot this new way of getting pinball fx3 with video backglass working with just batch files is awesome lol thx guys 

[Draco1962]

8 minutes ago, ATOMIZE202012 said:

SOLVED!!!!

 

ok done it guys with autohotkey script woooot this new way of getting pinball fx3 with video backglass working with just batch files is awesome lol thx guys 

Can you share your ahk script?

[Mike_da_Spike]

4 hours ago, ATOMIZE202012 said:

how do you exit a table without pressing ESC then quit which then loads back to pinball fx3 homescreen which i dont want it to do i just want to exit the table right out ...can this be done ? 

Yes, thats a default feature of PinballX 

I just press the "exit" button, that will not bring me back to the fx3 menu, but just to my front ent

4 hours ago, ATOMIZE202012 said:

SOLVED!!!!

 

ok done it guys with autohotkey script woooot this new way of getting pinball fx3 with video backglass working with just batch files is awesome lol thx guys 

Nais ! Multiple ways leads to Rome !

As Draco said, can you shate your solution?

 

[scutters]

16 hours ago, ATOMIZE202012 said:

but in my case it will go back to my new front end il be making

Lol...  that's probably why i was confused by the question!. You do know this is a PinballX front end forum don't you?! 

Recommend you give PinballX a go, it'll make your life a lot easier out of box. Config is simple, and if you do get any issues we'll be around to answer any questions 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Good eyes @scutters. Didn't read that it is for a new front end.

Well, don't invent the wheel again mate!. And if you event a new wheel, don't use autohotkey for it, but use c#