bring Roblox window to focus

[Phantom]

Hi,

So having a Cab with every emulator, guitar games, dancing games, karaoke, pinball and god knows what else just isn't enough for the kids (or me) now they've discovered Roblox.

I have it "working" on the arcade but its not loading seamlessly in GameEX.

It runs in a Chrome browser window so when I open it in Game Ex, it will load but then GameEX thinks it didn't load and goes back to its menu and I have to ALT/TAB to get to ROBLOX.

I know I had the same kind of issue before but its been a long time and can't remember what it was or if it was done within GameEx or a AHK script.

 

Thanks for any help

Nelson

[Draco1962]

Are you running it as an external app? Can you attach copies of your gameex.ini and log.txt files from right after the focus loss issue occurs? 

 

P.S. Have you tried using MS Edge instead? Similar results?

[Phantom]

Hey Draco, 

So Roblox comes with an executable that opens up the web browser (in my case CHROME) and you browse their games. Once you pick a game it loads their ROBLAX PLAYER program.

In my ini file its Emulator 39 but I also have it as an external Application. I was trying to see if GameEx handled them differently.

 

The issue I think is that GameEX isn't waiting long enough or doesn't see chrome open so it returns to the GameEX menu as if it quit meanwhile I can Alt/Tab to Chrome and play.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks

Nelson

 

log.txt GameEx.ini

[Draco1962]

Have you looked at or using any launchers? Found this..

https://robloxplayerexe.net/download/

If not, my thought is that it may give GameEx something to watch. 

[Phantom]

ya thats the launcher that it installs by default. All it does is opens Chrome to show the list of games. Then once you pick a game it uses that engine in a separate window.

I just installed the Windows Roblox app from the windows store but that doesn't give me a usable exe to load from a command line.

I guess it just comes down to getting GameEx go open Chrome and an actual game and not return to the menu. 

[Draco1962]

Maybe. There may be a way with another frontend that coukd be applied to your use within GameEx as well. 

[Phantom]

Ok so I found an old script I have for a karaoke program and tweaked it to work for Roblox.

I'll admit I really don't remember what some of the lines do but it seems to work now for Roblox and the Chrome window it opens.

heres the AutoHotKey code to start Roblox

#SingleInstance Force

SetTitleMatchMode 3
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen

GroupAdd Display, Discover - Roblox - Google Chrome
GroupAdd Display, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1

Run https://www.roblox.com/discover/?referrer=roblox-player#/

WinWaitActive, ahk_group Display

#Persistent
	SetTimer, Clicker, 2000

send {F11}
return

Clicker:
	SetTimer, Clicker, Off
	winHide, ahk_class TPlayFrm
	WinWaitClose, ahk_group Display
	WinShow, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
	WinClose, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
	run pskill.exe chrome.exe
	run pskill.exe RobloxPlayerBeta.exe
	ExitApp

and heres code to kill the processes once ESCAPE is pressed to return to GameEx. I'm not sure if I'll keep this exit script because I'm not sure how Escape is used in Roblox just yet.

run pskill.exe chrome.exe
run pskill.exe RobloxPlayerBeta.exe

This by no means a great solution. It just does the job if anyone else wants to use Roblox on their Cab.

[Draco1962]

Thanks for sharing your solution for a unique situation!