Launchbox Autohotkey script issue.

[Aevans0001]

So I just moved my installation of everything over to a new computer and everything was going good until I noticed my ahk wasn't working on commodore 64.  @Jason Carr was there anything done to running ahk from the emulators settings lately?

 

So what I am trying to do is run joytokey.exe with a particular profile before I run winvice, and then closing joytokey upon exit of winvice.  This used to work, however now I can not get it to. 

 

My current ahk script reads this

Run, "C:\games\joytokey\joytokey.exe"
WinWait, ahk_exe x64.exe
WinWaitClose  ; Wait for the exact window found by WinWait to be closed.
Run, "C:\games\joytokey\joytokeykill.bat"

everything seems to work  except the joytokeykill.bat does not run.  Also you may notice that Joytokey.exe does not run a particular profile.  I would love it to choose just a profile, but when I set it up I could not get it to work, so any help there would be great also.

 

My file JoytoKeykill.bat does work if I manually load it.

[Undertherainbow]

u should replace joytokeykill.bat with something like this:

 

start "" /WAIT "somegame.exe"
Timeout 1
taskkill /f /im JoyToKey.exe

By using start WAIT, "somegame.exe" can be name of emulator

or.. most easiest maybe would be to put all on escape?

$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

 

or u can use

if WinExist("ahk_exe someprogram.exe")
DO..

@Aevans0001

P.S

just remembered , there is also little hard way to check if process is active then Do..

TIMEOUT /T 3
:while1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %GAMENAME%"') DO IF %%x == %GAMENAME% goto FOUND
goto FIN
:FOUND
TIMEOUT /T 5
goto :while1
:FIN
taskkill /f /im joytokill.exe

define emulator as %GAMENAME% set "GAMENAME=someprogram.exe"

Anyway there are bunch of choices to deal with it

Edited September 29, 2019 by Undertherainbow

[Aevans0001]

5 hours ago, Undertherainbow said:

u should replace joytokeykill.bat with something like this:

 

start "" /WAIT "somegame.exe"
Timeout 1
taskkill /f /im JoyToKey.exe

By using start WAIT, "somegame.exe" can be name of emulator

or.. most easiest maybe would be to put all on escape?

$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

 

or u can use

if WinExist("ahk_exe someprogram.exe")
DO..

@Aevans0001

P.S

just remembered , there is also little hard way to check if process is active then Do..

TIMEOUT /T 3
:while1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %GAMENAME%"') DO IF %%x == %GAMENAME% goto FOUND
goto FIN
:FOUND
TIMEOUT /T 5
goto :while1
:FIN
taskkill /f /im joytokill.exe

define emulator as %GAMENAME% set "GAMENAME=someprogram.exe"

Anyway there are bunch of choices to deal with it

how do I define the emulator and game name?  I am running this for every game in c64.

[Undertherainbow]

just use something like this to close joytokey and emulator in same time

$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

[Aevans0001]

Sorry, I am completely confused now..

 

Do i put the whole thing in?

 

TIMEOUT /T 3
:while1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %GAMENAME%"') DO IF %%x == %GAMENAME% goto FOUND
goto FIN
:FOUND
TIMEOUT /T 5
goto :while1
:FIN
taskkill /f /im joytokill.exe

$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

define emulator as %GAMENAME% set "GAMENAME=someprogram.exe"

like that, or are you saying just do this now

$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

 

[Undertherainbow]

@Aevans0001

Just open ahk under emulator in launchbox and paste

$Esc::
{
  Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}
  Process, Close, joytokill.exe
}

when u press Escape it will close both emulator and joytokey

Edited September 29, 2019 by Undertherainbow

[Jason Carr]

Nothing has changed lately with AHK or any of that scripting stuff. Hopefully @Undertherainbow can help you get up and running @Aevans0001.