Launch Before, and launch after

[LB11]

Ok, I set up xpadder in the launch before section of the emulator as

"C:\Program Files\xpadder\xpadder.exe" /m

The problem I am having is that it will launch and then it wont bring up the emulator. If I manually close xpadder from the system tray it will then launch the emulator.

How do I get the emulator to come up without closing xpadder?

There must be a setting I am missing somewhere.

[Brian Hoffman]

Ok, I set up xpadder in the launch before section of the emulator as

"C:\Program Files\xpadder\xpadder.exe" /m

The problem I am having is that it will launch and then it wont bring up the emulator. If I manually close xpadder from the system tray it will then launch the emulator.

How do I get the emulator to come up without closing xpadder?

There must be a setting I am missing somewhere.

Create a batchfile for each of your commands. make a folder in your c:\ called batchlinks and create a shortcuts to each of your bat files there.

So in c:\batchlinks\ you have two shortcuts .

Now make a 3rd bat file called startup.bat or whatever

have it look like this

-------------------------

@echo off

c:\batchlinks\1bat.lnk

c:\batchlinks\2bat.lnk

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Subsitute 1bat.lnk and 2bat.lnk for whatever the filenames are. keep the file extention and try to not use spaces.

I know it seems silly to do this but it should work.

[LB11]

Create a batchfile for each of your commands. make a folder in your c:\ called batchlinks and create a shortcuts to each of your bat files there.

So in c:\batchlinks\ you have two shortcuts .

Now make a 3rd bat file called startup.bat or whatever

have it look like this

-------------------------

@echo off

c:\batchlinks\1bat.lnk

c:\batchlinks\2bat.lnk

---------------------------

Subsitute 1bat.lnk and 2bat.lnk for whatever the filenames are. keep the file extention and try to not use spaces.

I know it seems silly to do this but it should work.

Let me see if I understand this correctly...

I need to make

open.bat

and

close.bat

and Startup.bat

in the xpadder folder.

Then I need to put shortcuts in a shortcut folder.

Then I need to make a shortcut for open.bat and one for close.bat and put them in that folder.

Then I should have startup.bat open the link to open.bat

I would probably need to make a closedown.bat to open the link to close.bat and have that in run after? is this right?

wouldnt the batch file usage render the gameex key mappings useless in the emulator?

[Brian Hoffman]

Let me see if I understand this correctly...

I need to make

open.bat

and

close.bat

and Startup.bat

in the xpadder folder.

Then I need to put shortcuts in a shortcut folder.

Then I need to make a shortcut for open.bat and one for close.bat and put them in that folder.

Then I should have startup.bat open the link to open.bat

I would probably need to make a closedown.bat to open the link to close.bat and have that in run after? is this right?

wouldnt the batch file usage render the gameex key mappings useless in the emulator?

Well gameex will wait for the program to terminate before launching the next program. That is why when you exit xpadder gameex works again.

If you start the program by a LNK it will work.

I thought you wanted to run multiple programs from the start before option. If you only want to launch one program then make one batch file that runs the commandline and then make a shortcut to it somewhere and in the launch before have it point to the shortcut.

[Stu1983]

I thought you wanted to run multiple programs from the start before option. If you only want to launch one program then make one batch file that runs the commandline and then make a shortcut to it somewhere and in the launch before have it point to the shortcut.

If you're just looking to run 1 command I think the START command should work eg.

START "C:\Program Files\xpadder\xpadder.exe" /m

I'm not near my cabinet to test it but I think I used it in the past

Stu

[bkenobi]

Yeah, what Stu said. That's the easiest way to do it. GameEx is just looking for the command line to run before and after, so if you use START it will launch in a new process and it won't wait for the command to end.

[LB11]

Great! Thanks again for the info!

[Lord Zog]

If you're just looking to run 1 command I think the START command should work eg.

START "C:\Program Files\xpadder\xpadder.exe" /m

I'm not near my cabinet to test it but I think I used it in the past

Stu

START "C:\Roms\Atari Lynx\xPad\xpadder.exe" /m

It comes up with INVALID SWITCH "/M", if I remove the switch as it looks like START.EXE is giving me the error, it just loads another command box.. Any other ideas? Just wanna load xpadder to launch before.. The launch after works fine..

[Tom Speirs]

START "C:\Roms\Atari Lynx\xPad\xpadder.exe" /m

It comes up with INVALID SWITCH "/M", if I remove the switch as it looks like START.EXE is giving me the error, it just loads another command box.. Any other ideas? Just wanna load xpadder to launch before.. The launch after works fine..

You can just use Also Launch instead of Launch

Or change the above start cmd (which is wrong, i think thats the windows 98 version) to START "SOMETEXT" "C:\Roms\Atari Lynx\xPad\xpadder.exe"

[Brian Hoffman]

You can just use Also Launch instead of Launch

Or change the above start cmd (which is wrong, i think thats the windows 98 version) to START "SOMETEXT" "C:\Roms\Atari Lynx\xPad\xpadder.exe"

id change start to

cmd /c "command"

[Lord Zog]

id change start to

cmd /c "command"

The start worked.. I just stopped using /M and specified in the config for xPadder to run minimized at start, as well, the "Sometext" fixed the prob, it was using the "C:\Roms\Atari Lynx\xPad\xpadder.exe" as the title bar. lol.. Ah well. thx for the help.. Now I can use my LynX and NullDC. Now to just get pcsx2 0.92 to run full speed with sound. Damn emu's..