ckp Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 ideally i want to add a before and after "additional app" platform wide, but that currently does not exist in LB. the alternative is to set per game which works awesomely, but i do not want to manually add my before and after app to every single game in my platform!! ugh! i don't see a way using the bulk select all edit either. is there another way? please say there is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Not currently, @ckp. We do have plans to fix that issue, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 Thanks @Jason Carr, but any idea how far out that is? If it's not very soon, i'll probably just do it manually for one set of games. Thanks! By the way, in the add additional apps setup window, what in the world does it mean to check the box for "Use Emulator"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 If this box is ticked, then the Additional App will launch using the same Emulator as the main game uses. For example, you may have a game in LaunchBox that launches with ePSXe. This will allow the game set as an Additional App to launch with ePSXe too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 thanks @spycat , i don't get it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 As luck would have it, I did not have to manually add an additional before and after app to my Daphne games. Since I'm using a batch file as the emulator to launch these games, I just added the start command and after command to this batch file and it works platform wide. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Good to hear, @ckp. It might be a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Hi @ckp. Maybe I didn't explain properly. My fault. As you know Additional Apps can be used to run stuff before the main app and also to end it if needed after the main app closes. They can also be used via the context menu to open stuff like images, docs, urls etc. And they can also be used to launch a different version of the main game. Maybe a cracked version or a pre-release one. When used to play a different version of the main game or the next disk of a multi-disk game, if the main game runs under emulation then you would enable this box to allow the version added as an Additional App to use emulation also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 Thanks @spycat . Oh wow, I didn't know multi image games didn't just work seamlessly. I guess I haven't yet tried a game that requires the second image. I'm not sure what I will do if that happens because I haven't faced it yet. I'm fairly new to emulators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 23 hours ago, Jason Carr said: 23 hours ago, ckp said: As luck would have it, I did not have to manually add an additional before and after app to my Daphne games. Since I'm using a batch file as the emulator to launch these games, I just added the start command and after command to this batch file and it works platform wide. This stopped working since I upgraded to 6.9! I run daphne games with a batch file. the first part launches Xpadder, then i launch the game with the emulator, and finally i run taskkill to exit Xpadder. This was working great as a platform level tweak, but now it seems the taskkill part never runs anymore with 6.9 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 ok, it seems now this only works when pressing the keyboard escape key. i use xbox360 and controller automation to escape out also. the xbox360 will indeed escape out of the daphne game but it seems to do it in a way that does not return back to the batch file to run the last line. was something changed here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 (edited) i just tested this to be sure. i add this to the end of the batch file: echo %time% > r:\test.txt the only time test.txt gets created is when i exit the game by keyboard escape key. if i use xbox360 automation escape, the file never gets created. it's possible before 6.9 i was just using keyboard or Xpadder escape on xbox360. so this issue may exit before too. @Jason Carr, is it expected that the automation escape/exit would not return to the parent or the batch file to run the last or remaining lines? Edited September 16, 2016 by ckp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I'm not aware of any changes that would affect that @ckp. I don't know why a batch file would be cut off. We did add LEDBlinky, but I wouldn't think that would cause it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 16, 2016 Author Share Posted September 16, 2016 Ok. I think you could pretty easily reproduce this by trying a batch file similar to how I described. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 filed bug/ticket: https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/1650/controller-automation-to-exit-game-does 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted October 5, 2016 Author Share Posted October 5, 2016 On 9/15/2016 at 3:52 PM, Jason Carr said: Good to hear, @ckp. It might be a while. another request for the ability to run additional apps before/after at the platform level https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/1732/from-a-new-lifetime-member Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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