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| DaOld Man:
Why thank you for the kind words TJC! Im glad it worked for you. And go ahead and re-name the kid "DaOld Man", I bet his friends would love that! :lol Sneak peek: This will be announced later in its own thread, but here is what Im working on right now: On the juke boxes I have made, I added a "service mode" switch that allows the user, on startup, to go to windows desktop instead of running the juke front end (X-Lobby in my case). This was intended to allow user to start up in windows to rip cd's and play dvds, since I never could get X-Lobby to do it. It worked pretty well, so on my latest arcade cab, "A Little Rage" Im going to add a service switch inside the cab that will basically do the same thing as the jukes' service switches. I figure this will be handy for troubleshooting and PC maintenance. My new program (Im calling it "winstart" right now, but it's subject to change), will be placed in the windows startup folder. When the program starts, it will look at the printer port to see if a chosen input is connected to the ground (via the service switch), if not, then it will start mala (or just about any front end), if the switch is made, then it wont start mala. Pretty simple. But Im thinking that if I have mala selected to shut down the arcade when I exit it, then if I need to run mala while in service mode, when I exit it, the arcade will shutdown, which may not be desirable. So instead of having mala shutdown the PC, I have it call winstart when I exit mala. It will call it with an argument "shutdown". So when mala exits, winstart will again check the status of the printer port input pin, and shutdown the PC only if the service mode switch is not on. I may re-write this as a mala plugin, but that will be later. Plus as it is now it should work with just about any front end that can call a program on exit. Wish me luck. |
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