Xpadder Question

[angelobodetti]

Hi All, I have an emulated arcade game that can only play with keyboard keys. I've purchased and set up xpadder with my xbox 360 controller and it works perfectly. My question is around only using it when needed. Currently xpadder puts itself in the system tray and always runs, which means if I open another emulator my controller may not work properly. I know it can be shut off but that's a pain. Is there a way to only have it run when a specific program is running? I see stuff in the setting but it isn't immediately clear. As always, thank you!

[fromlostdays]

I saw SOME functionality within xpadder itself to launch certain profiles linked to specific EXEs. In theory, if it worked, you could make blank profiles for emulators that don't need it. This would probably be the easiest solution. A much more involved solution is a program called RocketLauncher which does exactly what you're asking, controls xpadder profiles, (Its a back end program). I"m pretty sure though that if you went this route, you'd have to import all your systems into Rocketlauncher, at least, every one where you wanted to launch a specific profile. Theres a pretty steep learning curve to it, but it will certainly work. RocketLauncher does communicate with LaunchBox so you can still launch games through LaunchBox. Lastly, you can probably learn some simple Auto Hotkey Scripting (or even just ask on the AHK forum), and create a script that will run in the background and turn Xpadder on and off based on certain conditions. I'm sorry I can't be more specific. I stopped using Xpadder a while back and pretty much exclusively only use emulators which have native controller support. What arcade game/emulator do you have that doesn't?