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2 minutes ago, itsmeblake said:

I want to change my button LED's in Bigbox when selecting a platform. I have a batch file that will do this, but I need a way to run it when I select a platform like "SNES" or "Playstation" as an example. Is it possible to do that with this tool? Or does it only work for making shortcuts outside of BB?

I am well aware that ledblinky does this already, but it is not possible to use that.

Why can't you use ledblinky?   

You can use a batch file that catches BigBox LEDBLINKY output and passes it onto whatever platform you are using.    That's all BIGBOX is doing.  Literally throwing commands at the command line.  

Assuming you're on windows, you can use this to start...   make a batch file called "catcher.bat" (or whatever).   Tell bigbox that "catcher.bat" is your LEDBLINKY executable.  

Fire up bigbox and play around.   Everything you do that would interact with ledblinky will be output to 'catcherlog.txt' 

Then you can figure out how to translate that to whatever you are using.   (if linux, you can do the same with a shell .sh script - but I don't know the syntax - you can probably use chatgpt to convert it)
 

echo .  >> catcherlog.txt
echo Start >> catcherlog.txt
echo %date% %time% >> catcherlog.txt
echo Arguments Received: %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 >> catcherlog.txt

set filename=%1
set filenameWithoutExtension=%~n1%

echo Filename: %filename% >> catcherlog.txt
echo Filename without extension: %filenameWithoutExtension% >> catcherlog.txt

Echo Finish>> catcherlog.txt

notepad catcherlog.txt

 

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