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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: mtg on January 29, 2015, 09:29:32 am
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http://youtu.be/-jT-7k5Mhos (http://youtu.be/-jT-7k5Mhos)
Any ideas on how this achieved this? His setup allows for the touchscreen frontend to select individual machines within the masque software. Way cooler than selecting the wolf run pack and navigating thru.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. ???
But if I had to guess by looking at the video is that there is no way to launch those games through the command line. The games have to be launched using a Frontend. And you're wondering how he's doing it. It's very clear to me that he's using either autohotkey or autoit to launch those games. With either of those programs you can launch the fe and double click on the game to launch it.
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+1 on Autohotkey.
Notice that each selection starts the wrong slot, then goes back to the in-game menu and starts the right one. So the script would do something like:
Start the right pack's executable
Wait for the program's window
Send Enter a couple times to choose the player/bankroll
Wait a couple seconds for the default (or last used) slot to come up (or look for a pixel, or unique window or whatever)
Send the Select Machine shortcut key from the right hand menu (on my old 2005 version, it was CTRL-L)
Wait a second for the game to bring up the list
Send 'Home' to get to the top of the list
Send the first letter of the chosen slot the right number of times. For example, Turkey Shoot was the fourth game that starts with T in that list, so send T four times.
Send Tab a couple of times to get over to 'Play'
Send Enter
Within the frontend, each of the blocks would run the script with the pack name and the letters that correspond to it, e.g. autohotkey startmasque.ahk texastea tttt for Turkey Shoot or autohotkey startmasque.ahk lobstermania ccc for Cleopatra