PROPER WAY TO CLOSE A WIN10 APP IN LB?

[PiperCalls]

Hi,

Wondering what is the proper way to close a Win10 App that I have setup in LB? To be clear It's an app, not an emulator. The App doesn't have any keyboard shortcut to exit, it requires a mouse click on the "X" to close. I read somewhere that converting an AHK script to an EXE and referencing that EXE in the additional apps section of the "Game" would do it. Is that the "best/correct" way or is there a better/cleaner way? I have never used AHK so any help with the script would be appreciated.

So if my app is called ABC.exe..what would be the AHK script that I would convert to EXE? Alt+F4 does close the app but I think that's a force close and not sure if that is a good way to do it.

Thanks for any help!...Piper

[JoeViking245]

"best/correct/better/cleaner/", depends on who you ask. ?

Alt+F4 is really no different than clicking "X".  (i.e.  clicking "X" does not do a quicky background save, then close.  It closes just like Alt+F4)   That said...  Go to "Tools", "Manage Emulators...", select your 'emulator' for "ABC.exe" and Click "Edit".  In the "Running AutoHotkey Script" tab, enter in 

$Esc::
{
WinClose, ahk_exe ABC.exe
}

"Save", "Close"....

So in hopes that your Win10 App doesn't use the {Escape} inside it, when you are in the App, pressing {Escape} will close the App.   

Alternately you could set it up so {Escape} sends Alt+F4 (for your scenario).  But the above code is the "BEST" acceptable answer. 

[PiperCalls]

@JoeViking245

Thanks for the help on this. I'm a little lost on this though. It's a Win10 App so there is no emulator. If I assign an emulator to put your suggested AHK script in, then the App won't launch as it's trying to launch via the emulator. If I assign no emulator to the App then it will launch but I don't see how to put in the Running AHK Script.

What am I missing?

Thx...Piper

[JoeViking245]

Oh Snap!  My bad.  I am so sorry.

So yes, compiling that script I gave (the one with "WinClose" in it) to an exe and have it "Run Automatically Before Main Application" will work.

Actually, maybe use 

$Esc::
{
  WinClose, ahk_exe ABC.exe
  ExitApp
}

This way, you run the script before your Main App, the script then hangs around in the background until you press the {Escape} key.  Then the script closes ABC.exe and then closes itself (with "ExitApp" so it's not 'hanging around' anymore).