Mala - Need both History and CP Viewer using a keypress

[SGT]

This is probably a stupid question, but I just can't seem to find the solution.   

In Mala, I want to be able to bring up both the History(Info) window by pressing a button AND the CPViewer by pressing another button.  It seems like you can have either one or the other but not both.

I know that I can bring up the History window by pressing one button and having the CPViewer automatically come up before every game starts, but I don't want to have to see the CPViewer every time I play a game.

I looked at external applications but MALA does not seem to pass the %ROM% variable to the application.  I hate to try to figure out how to create a plugin just to be able to activate the History viewer and the CPViewer from keystrokes.

Now please tell me what I'm overlooking.

[loadman]

I don't think it is a stupid question. 

I could be wrong but this is on SWINDUS to do list 

Yeah at the moment it's one or the other for keystroke access.

But as you say you can have history (and other info) pop up with a keystroke and also have CPV2 launch upon game start

[SGT]

Thanks loadman.  Could I could use a plugin to launch CPV2 via a key press?  After looking at the plugin SDK doc, I was not sure that a "key press" event could be trapped.

[loadman]

Thanks loadman.  Could I could use a plugin to launch CPV2 via a key press?  After looking at the plugin SDK doc, I was not sure that a "key press" event could be trapped.

Hmmm A Plugin could keep track of the last selcted game rom name and send that detail somewhere such as the windows registry or a txt/batch file file.

So then you could launch CPV2 with the currently selected game via the keystroke of your choice using the  External Ap options

So yes I think that is possible if you really want that