sendkeys & bsnes emulator

[PumpkinEd]

I am trying to send the F11 key to go fullscreen in the bsnes emulator. For some reason when I send {F11}, bsnes does not see it. I had windows explorer open and it went fullscreen instead. Is there an easy explanation why bsnes would not see the key and windows explorer would? I can send keys to other emulators with no issues. I used the wait to send keys with no luck either.

[fRequEnCy]

I am trying to send the F11 key to go fullscreen in the bsnes emulator. For some reason when I send {F11}, bsnes does not see it. I had windows explorer open and it went fullscreen instead. Is there an easy explanation why bsnes would not see the key and windows explorer would? I can send keys to other emulators with no issues. I used the wait to send keys with no luck either.

Probably has to do with the emulator. I just tried it and it's not playing well at all. The newest version. What version are you running? Exact version number please. As the new versions have the {F11} instead of the usual Alt{ENTER}. I also get errors trying to run my roms with emulator. Try running a game again and then exit out of GameEx. Then try running the runitgame.bat file. Instructions on how to do so can be found here.

[PumpkinEd]

Probably has to do with the emulator. I just tried it and it's not playing well at all. The newest version. What version are you running? Exact version number please. As the new versions have the {F11} instead of the usual Alt{ENTER}. I also get errors trying to run my roms with emulator. Try running a game again and then exit out of GameEx. Then try running the runitgame.bat file. Instructions on how to do so can be found here.

I am using v075 performance core x64 compiled by King Of Chaos from the bsnes forums. Games seem to run error free on that version. The runitgame.bat loads the emulator and the game runs fine, just not in fullscreen. If I leave an explorer window open when I start GameEx, I end up with explorer fullscreen and bsnes windowed. The key gets sent to explorer instead of bsnes for some reason. bsnes seems to have focus because when I hit F11 manually, it goes to fullscreen.

[fRequEnCy]

I am using v075 performance core x64 compiled by King Of Chaos from the bsnes forums. Games seem to run error free on that version. The runitgame.bat loads the emulator and the game runs fine, just not in fullscreen. If I leave an explorer window open when I start GameEx, I end up with explorer fullscreen and bsnes windowed. The key gets sent to explorer instead of bsnes for some reason. bsnes seems to have focus because when I hit F11 manually, it goes to fullscreen.

Can you please post your config so I can see what else is going on please?

[PumpkinEd]

[Emulator_2]
Enabled=True
System=Nintendo SNES
Category=Console
Emulator=BSNES
Version=0.73
Rating=
DownloadUrl=http://www.gamesdbase.com/setupwizard/emulators/download/bsnes.7z
RequiredFiles=
Website=http://byuu.org/bsnes/
Info=Super Nintendo that claims to be 100 percent accurate.
TITLETEXT=Nintendo SNES
STARTPAGENAME=Nintendo SNES
StartPageLogo=Nintendo SNES
Command=bsnes.exe "[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]"
ROMFilter=*.sfc
Database=[Console] Nintendo SNES
configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit (Process Close)
MAPFile=
RomPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Roms
SnapPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Snaps
TitlePath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Titles
BoxPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Boxes
CartPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Cartridges
ManualPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Manuals
ControlPanelPath=
WorkingPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Emulator\bsnes
MapKeys=True
WaitBeforeKeys=
SendKeys={F11}
ReplaceDash=False
ReplaceUnder=True
Capitals=False
RemoveBrackets=False
ShowDesktop=True
Debug=False
AlsoLaunch=
OLDatZip=
LaunchBefore=
LaunchAfter=
ExcludedFiles=
CustomBackground=
PlayMusic=False
DontShowInfo=
PlaySelectionMusic=False
SelectionMusicFolder=
PCGame=False
GamesIn7Zips=False
PlayInScreenSaver=False
ShowMostPlayed=True
RandomMostPlayed=True
CDCheck=False
CDCheckFile=
RomsInFolders=False
InstructionsPath=
UseDbName=
MergeSets=
CustomArtName1=
CustomArtPath1=
CustomArtName2=
CustomArtPath2=
CustomArtName3=
CustomArtPath3=
TVAdPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Advert
MusicPath=C:\Emulation\Nintendo SNES\Artwork\Music
lastgame=
ImageNotFound=C:\GameEx\not_available.png

All paths are correct. GameEx starts bsnes and loads proper rom.

Thanks for taking a look.

[fRequEnCy]

I found a setting that was interesting. Maybe you can try it out. In bnes click on Settings > Advanced Settings... > Check Always allow input. Give this a try and let me know what happens. I am unable to test from my gaming machine at the moment.

[PumpkinEd]

I already had "always allow input" checked. While looking at that, I changed the input driver to DirectInput and added a 1000ms to Wait to send keys in GameEx and it went fullscreen. Still has issued though. Bsnes will be fullscreen, but any open windows will appear on top of it. The mouse cursor shows up on top as well. No big deal though. Thanks for your help once again fRequEnCy.

[fRequEnCy]

I already had "always allow input" checked. While looking at that, I changed the input driver to DirectInput and added a 1000ms to Wait to send keys in GameEx and it went fullscreen. Still has issued though. Bsnes will be fullscreen, but any open windows will appear on top of it. The mouse cursor shows up on top as well. No big deal though. Thanks for your help once again fRequEnCy.

Is is one of those emulators that probably has issues with window focus. In my testing with the older versions, desktop had to be set to true. So it's probably by design. Not really cab-friendly. Only other solution would be to create a wrapper for it to make sure that the send key is sent to the correct window. After all you're testing I would have to say that's the only way at this point. I still haven't tested it myself but seems to be so after your comments. Sorry!

Edited August 17, 2012 by Draco1962
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