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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: raungst on November 19, 2010, 06:24:59 pm

Title: starting an application with Mala
Post by: raungst on November 19, 2010, 06:24:59 pm

I'm working on adding two gamepads to my cab. I have MaLa set as the shell. I need to be able to run Xpadder on startup, so that the joystick buttons are turned into keypresses. Is there a way for Mala to run a program when it starts up, even when shelled?

Title: Re: starting an application with Mala
Post by: Neverending Project on November 19, 2010, 07:41:42 pm

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=80737.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=80737.0)

 :)

Title: Re: starting an application with Mala
Post by: raungst on November 20, 2010, 11:53:47 am

I saw this, but it doesn't seem to work when you have MaLa as a shell. It works great if I launch Mala from explorer, but doesn't actually launch Xpadder if MaLa is the shell. There was another post about turning a batch file into an exe file and then using that as the shell, so I guess I'll try that next.

Title: Re: starting an application with Mala
Post by: raungst on November 20, 2010, 02:35:30 pm

This is my fault. The plugin works. I was shelling a different version of MaLa than I had put the plugin in.

Now... Is there a way to have it start so it's minimized?

Title: Re: starting an application with Mala
Post by: Gray_Area on November 22, 2010, 03:53:09 pm

If it is like a shortcut, then right-click > properties > shortcut > run - select 'minimized'.