starting XPadder profile for application in GameEx?

[ShAddiX]

Hi!

I want to use Media Portal with my Gamepad for TV and my TV series.

Media Portal alone works when I start it in GameEx. But when I use a script (autohotkey or a batch file) to start the XPadder profile and then Media Portal, it doesn't work. I just get back to GameEx. And GameEx doesn't support a "launch also", "launch after" or a "launch before" command for the applications like for emulators.

I want the XPadder profile to load, then is should start Media Portal and when I exit Media Portal, it should load another standart profile for xpadder.

Any idea?

[bkenobi]

You will need to launch them from a batch file. There will basically be 2 lines:

start c:\xpadder\profiles\<profilename>

c:\mediaportal\mediaportal.exe

Yours will look different, but hopefully you get the idea.

[ShAddiX]

I already had this kind of setup.

When I run the bat file alone it works. But when I try to run it in GameEx, it just returns to GameEx.

My bat file:

start C:\Programme\XPadder\Xpadder.exe "C:\Programme\XPadder\profiles\Media Portal"

"C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe"

[bkenobi]

Is MediaPortal launching in the background or is it not running at all?

[ShAddiX]

It isn't running at all.

XPadder doesn't load the profile and Media Portal doesn't start as well. :/

It goes just back to GameEx.

[Nologic]

Okay if I recall there are issues with using batch scripts in this manner...so my suggestion like always is...ta da..hehe AutoIt.

Extract the archive to your Media Portal folder.

Now the Kill_Child script is assuming you are passing a default profile back to Xpadder...and in this case the name of the default profile is "Default"...original eh?

Anyways if you have Xpadder plugged into to many things right now to where you are passing a different file name as the default profile...simply edit the script and recompile it, as its source code is in the Source folder...hehe I know I'm just full of original idea's here.

Well let me know how it goes.

[Tom Speirs]

Hi!

I want to use Media Portal with my Gamepad for TV and my TV series.

Media Portal alone works when I start it in GameEx. But when I use a script (autohotkey or a batch file) to start the XPadder profile and then Media Portal, it doesn't work. I just get back to GameEx. And GameEx doesn't support a "launch also", "launch after" or a "launch before" command for the applications like for emulators.

I want the XPadder profile to load, then is should start Media Portal and when I exit Media Portal, it should load another standart profile for xpadder.

Any idea?

The emulators config is now supposed to replace applications. In the future, Im probably going to make the applications just be emulators with a trimmed down config, and appear under the applications menu, but you should set media portal up as an emulator. Then you can even use GameEx's in built support for mapping the gamepad. Thats the idea anyway! I hope to make it more inuitive in the future.

[ShAddiX]

Damn, you did it again!

I tried batch files, I tried a AutoHotkey scripts, both didn't work.

But I forgot AutoIt and well...it works!!!

Big thanks for your help (again ^^") to both of you!

Edit:

You're right Tom. It would be better to have just "applications" which run emulators, other programs and so on.

But it works with Nologics script

I don't like the idea of switching front ends. But Media Portal is very nice for the multimedia stuff because of the design and the possebilities of getting informations/covers etc. of movies, tv series, music and so on. (the only thing it doesn't have is a real time preview like in GameEx )

But for emulators and games I prefer GameEx.

[Nologic]

Your welcome.

Tom -

I look forward to the changes in applications.

[bkenobi]

Just curious what version of XPadder you are using? I was just looking at the new version's updates and it looks like there is a "Fixed a bug where double-clicking a profile in Windows XP failed if the path included spaces". I don't know if this is at all related, but I thought I would throw it out there.