Hyperspin Game and watch

[doohan]

Hello,

To run Game and Watch exes, I'v tried something simple working:

In the same folder than the games: a ahk script by game:

Run, E:\Nintendo\Game & Watch\Jeux\Banana\Banana.exe
Esc::
Process, Close, Banana.exe
ExitAPP
return

Anyone knows how to add run Xpadder before launching the game and close Xpadder after closing the game?

Something like Runwait?

Thanks and regards,  

[A_AhkUser]

Hi doohan and welcolme to the AHK community


Ruwait is actually a relevant option in this case. Here's a commented example using notepad (as Xpadder):

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WM_SYSCOMMAND := "0x112", SC_CLOSE := "0xF060" ; values used with PostMessage below - see WinClose > remarks in the documentation

#Persistent ; to keep a script that contains only timers running
SetTimer, mySubroutine, -1 ; runs a timer (a negative period like -1 make the timer run only once). The purpose of running such a timer is here to open a new thread and that way prevent the code beneath - if any - from being postponed by the runwait command
run, %A_WinDir%\system32\notepad.exe,, Min, PID ; runs notepad and stores its unique process ID (PID) in 'PID'; min will run it minimized
; some code...
return ; end of the auto-execute part of the script

mySubroutine: ; subroutine executed by the timer
WinWait, ahk_pid %PID% ; waits until notepad window exists
runwait, "E:\Nintendo\Game & Watch\Jeux\Banana\Banana.exe"
PostMessage, %WM_SYSCOMMAND%, %SC_CLOSE%,,, ahk_pid %PID% ; less forcefull than process, close -  similar in effect to pressing Alt-F4 or clicking the window's close button in its title bar.
ExitApp

Hope this helps.