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Exiting VMJ in a cab?

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unclet:
You could use a Hagstrom keyboard encoder which allows you to assign macros to a key press.   Basically, when you press/release a button, the encoder can send multiple keypresses to simulate a person entering many various keys then hitting enter when completed.

daveok:
Zathras,

Since you now have it sussed, can you or anyone else explain to me how to get a wrapper to run the exit routine?

I presume that it involves the generic keypress wrapper from http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus but any advice is welcome.

Thanks,

Dave

Zathras:
I'm not in front of my cab at the moment but I was working on getting it set up on a different machine this weekend so it is fresh on my memory.

What I did was put the files from the wrappers/cmdlaunch/ directory in the same directory as VMJ.   Then you edit the lconfig file to change the executable to virtual music jukebox.exe and the exit mode to 5 (that is what it is set to on my cab but you want to experiment with it).  

You then create a batch file that calls:

cmd-launch7 1

That you can run in MameWah etc.


Now what is weird is on my XP machine this will work all day long - but on my win98 machine (that I was trying to get it working on this weekend) it isn't getting the focus right.  It will launch the program fine but I have to minmize it and click on the black background in order to have ESC exit.  I may just need to play around with it more maybe.


There is a new version of VMJ coming out soon that I haven't been able to install correctly yet (its a beta and a known bug) but I was able to fire it up and saw that "ESC" was configurable - so I don't know if they finally have escape built in to escape yet...  it would be nice that is for sure.

daveok:
Many thanks. That works perfectly as you describe.

I am also using WinXP with MameWah and so get none of the focus problems you describe you have found with Win98.

Thanks again,

Dave

Zathras:
Well I figured it out - I'm stupid :)


I noticed this post from Howard  and tried giving the escape key a good press instead of a tap and it worked - D'oh!   In xp you can just tap iit but in 98 you have to hold it for a second...

Oh well problem solved

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