Change windows orientation for certain playlist navigation?

[davedw]

I have a screen mounted so it can be physically rotated. My idea is that I have certain playlists for games that require portrait mode as opposed to the majority using landscape mode. When i enter that playlist i'd like to have windows/launchbox rotate to signal to the pedestal user to go rotate the TV for these games. Then once they do that they can navigate within that playlist in that rotation as well as play the games.

I have an AHK that changes windows orientation and I can launch that per game, but then you're rotating the physical screen for each game and back again as you navigate/play/exit/navigate/play/exit.

Any way to hook into launchbox's navigation flow and trigger scripts? My fallback is a button on my panel, but that will be hard for people other than me to know when to use it.

Thanks for the help!

[JoeViking245]

38 minutes ago, davedw said:

Any way to hook into launchbox's navigation flow and trigger scripts?

For this, you'd need to create a plugin (written on C#).

Essentially, it'd catch a selection change event, determine that the change went into a playlist (vs say a different game, a platform or a platform category) and that the playlist is 'your special playlist'.  From there, execute what you wanted done.

 

[davedw]

I didn't know about plugins. Doesn't seem too hard from the documentation.  thank you!