Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: enemyace on March 26, 2002, 03:54:04 pm
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Howard,
Would it be possible to run multiple instances of RD? I was thinking I'd set them up like this:
Main instance - Extras list only (Arcade, Movies, Music)
Arcade instance - Basic RD usage (Arcade emulators, PC games)
Movies instance - Extras list only (Favorite DivX movies with a snap of the DVD cover)
Music instance - Extras list only (Favorite mp3 playlists with a snap of the album cover or other image)
A few questions about this setup:
The main menu would have just the extras list which would point to the other three instances of RD. If I launched the arcade instance, and then I launched an emu, would I drop back into the arcade instance of RD when I quit the emu or would the focus get messed up? Or is there a way that I could quit the first instance automatically when I launch the second? I could then have a list item called Quit that would launch the original instance of RD and quit the arcade one.
About the movie instance, is there some sort of batch file I could launch for each movie that would open the cd drive door and then autostart the divx file fullscreen when I loaded the cd? Maybe the player could take care of the autoplay and fullscreen stuff.
And I'm assuming for music I could launch a playlist as an extra item?
Of course each instance of RD would have its own folder and its own skins. I wouldn't be launching the same app multiple times, but from different folders.
I know that much of this stuff isn't related to RD exactly, but I figured that you or someone else might have some ideas on the subject.
Thanks,
EA
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All of this stuff seems do-able, I see no reason why it won't work pending you keep all your seperate rd eggs in a row. :)
(Of course I can't say for certain as I've never tried it.)
I'm not sure if you can open the cd door via a bat file, but I think you might be able to make a shorcut to do it similar to the shortcut you can make to shutdown a 9X machine. I suggest looking over at techtv.com and doing a search for what you want, they have wierd nerdy ideas like that posted often. ;)
As for the focus thing... the current version of rd never really sets focus as it does a "wait until appliaction is finished then unlock yourself" thingy. What this means is there's no way to quit the original rd you launched from, but I won't really matter as all fo the resources it was using will be freed up while it's not in focus.
The only problem I could see would be switching between the different versions. To increase rd's flexiablity I allow multiple instances of the same app to be launched. If you make a shorcut in rd 2 to go back to rd 1, what your actually gonna do is open up a second instance of rd 1. So your gonna need a front-end for your Front ends :) May I suggest party-on.... it's geared for small lists and supports user-defined colors/fonts and a preview shot for each entry.
As usual I'll give you some omnious advice.
Wait..... when the Dragon awakens once more all will forever be changed.