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Turnarcades:
I use MAMEWAH and WinCab Jukebox in my arcade cabinet. It boots to MAMEWAH and because of MAMEWAH's 'run app on exit' command, exiting MAMEWAH launches WinCab. Is there a way I could get it to work the other way too? i.e. Exit WinCab and have it auto-launch MAMEWAH again

Any solution is worth a try, rather than calling up explorer and pissing about launching it that way.
TalkingOctopus:
Here is a simple solution that I think will work.  Instead of having mamewah launch Wincab on exit, have it launch a command instead:

c:\wincab\wincab.exe
c:\mamewah\mamewah.exe

Create a a text file and put those 2 lines in (of course using the paths on your machine).   Name the text file whatever.cmd.  Have mamewah execute the cmd instead of the wincab executable.
Turnarcades:
Mmmmm, nice idea but won't that create a conflict? If it launches both at once, which will get priority? If both open in full windows, rather than one be minimised, then the background music of my MAMEWAH menu will play out when I'm trying to run Wincab surely? Even if it does work, won't it slow up older machines too much?
screaming:
no, the batch file will execute each one sequentially, one AFTER the other (not all commands at the same time). When wincab closes, then mamewah will open.  It's a brilliant idea, actually :)
Minwah:

--- Quote from: screaming on December 04, 2006, 06:50:06 pm ---no, the batch file will execute each one sequentially, one AFTER the other (not all commands at the same time). When wincab closes, then mamewah will open.  It's a brilliant idea, actually :)

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I think you would have to do something like this:

start /wait c:\wincab\wincab.exe
c:\mamewah\mamewah.exe

Otherwise Mamewah will be run immediately after WinCab, without waiting for WinCab to terminate.
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