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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: FunkyGibber on March 07, 2021, 02:28:15 AM

Title: Launching exe from displays menu
Post by: FunkyGibber on March 07, 2021, 02:28:15 AM

I recently decided to add a jukebox to my cabinet. I'm using SK Jukebox and I've configured the program externally; all I need to do now is have the ability to launch it through Attract Mode.

All my emulators are first selected from icons on the displays menu screen (which is the Flat_Blue display), then individual games are selected from a second screen where I'm using a wheel to display the individual game names (this display is the Nevato display). Obviously this second screen is needed so that the individual games can be selected. With a Jukebox this isn't needed. The individual songs are selected on the jukebox software. So I would like the SK Jukebox exe to launch from the FIRST screen (the Flat_Blue display) without taking the user to the second screen. I can't figure this out. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Launching exe from displays menu
Post by: hermine.potter on March 07, 2021, 11:55:38 AM

-start program from utility menu plugin
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1747.0)
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3838.msg26687#msg26687)
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3757.msg25949#msg25949)
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3360.msg25358#msg25358)

or

edit sourcecode of layout

Title: Re: Launching exe from displays menu
Post by: manzarek on March 08, 2021, 12:55:36 PM

Quote from: hermine.potter on March 07, 2021, 11:55:38 AM

-start program from utility menu plugin
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1747.0)
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3838.msg26687#msg26687)
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3757.msg25949#msg25949)
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3360.msg25358#msg25358)

or

edit sourcecode of layout

Thanks

Title: Re: Launching exe from displays menu
Post by: FunkyGibber on March 09, 2021, 01:15:03 PM

Thanks for these links. Using the UtilityMenu in the Plugins section allows me to open a program by clicking the button U (as in your examples) which is great, but I'd like to open the Jukebox software without a keyboard click, but instead selecting the jukebox icon (by scrolling through the emulator icons) and pressing the start button. Somehow making a script trigger by clicking on the jukebox emulator on the Displays Menu.