Dmdext and Future Pinball

[benge]

Forgive me if this has already been addressed on this forum but I have searched for over 2 weeks to find a solution. I do try and find hints and tips to any problem then learn to solve it that way. But this problem has me beat. Is it possible to have Dmdext start for future pinball tables when I launch PinballX  front end? I have a bat file that starts dmdext manually when I want to play a future pinball table but it closes when I close the FP table. I have dmdext working when I play a VPX table no problem. But there doesn`t seem to be a way of having it start for FP tables in the front end. Terryred has instructions for popper front end but I find popper front end too confusing.

Thanx for this brilliant front end and any help given.

benge. 

[scutters]

I don't have FP installed so might not be much help, but if you have a bat file that opens dmdext you could probably add that in the 'launch before' section for FP in settings.exe?

[benge]

Thanx scutters for your quick reply.

Yeah I tried that. But the setup doesn`t see the bat file. It only sees the dmdext.exe file which doesn`t open the dmdext. You have to use the bat file.

[scutters]

9 minutes ago, benge said:

But the setup doesn`t see the bat file. It only sees the dmdext.exe file which doesn`t open the dmdext. You have to use the bat file.

This is in the launch before options?

When you click the 3 dots for the launch before executable and the dialogue opened did you click the drop down filter and change 'executable files (*.exe)' to 'batch files (*.bat)'?

Best to attach your pinballx.ini and log.txt files in case it's something else and we have our wires crossed.

[benge]

oh, I haven`t noticed that before. I`m not at home at the minute. I`ll have a check later. Thanx scutters that does sound promising.

[benge]

Update.

I can use the bat file to have PinballX start dmdext. But it would close dmdext when I closed the table. So I would have to launch the bat file for every table I started. But that was a significant step thanx to scutters. With the help of another brilliant member on VPforums, wiesshund, I have dmdext starting and closing for every future pinball table I start. It`s not 100% successful yet, the odd table has a hissy fit when dmdext starts but I will iron out those problems later. My next step is to customise the dmd for each individual table.

So thankyou scutters for the help. 👍I really appreciate it.

[JimBeamer]

You must enter a command line before launching Future Pinball which launches DMDext first. In this thread you can see how I entered it. I have DMDext and dmddevice.ini in the Future Pinball directory.