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Title: launching glovepie from command line issues
Post by: dezblack on October 08, 2009, 06:40:25 pm

if I launch glovepie from a command line useing:

D:\SYS_Apps\GlovePIE\glovepie.exe -D:\SYS_Apps\GlovePIE\WiimoteScripts\MAME_IR_PPJoy_x2.PIE

I can then open mame and play a game correctly.

If I put the launch script in a "launch before", it freezes and will not launch MAME. If I manually close it during the process, Mame will continue to launch immediately.

Is there a switch i need to use to make glovepie stop whatever its doing and continue on to launch mame?

Title: Re: launching glovepie from command line issues
Post by: Neverending Project on October 08, 2009, 06:59:25 pm

Quote from: dezblack on October 08, 2009, 06:40:25 pm

If I put the launch script in a "launch before"

What do you mean by this? Are you using a batch file to launch? Or are you simply typing this command somewhere to have it execute before MAME launches?

Title: Re: launching glovepie from command line issues
Post by: dezblack on October 08, 2009, 07:06:34 pm

I found a cheap wiimote and decided to try glovepie for a quasi-lightgun.

I have it working really well, minus the obvious problems associated with doing this. I want to be able to launch glove pie from a command line before it starts an EMU or app so I can specify which profile to use. This works from a command line:

D:\SYS_Apps\GlovePIE\glovepie.exe -D:\SYS_Apps\GlovePIE\WiimoteScripts\MAME_IR_PPJoy_x2.PIE

and I use this to close after it closes,and it works from Gameex:

TASKKILL /F /IM glovepie.exe /T

My problem is, whenever I try to launch mame with the launch before (gameex lets me specify a command to be run before something is launched, as well as specifying something to run after the app closes), it comes up to a black screen for a few minutes and then mame closes and goes back to Gameex. If I remove the launch before, and manually start GlovePIE, I am able to play a game and then GlovePIE closes when I close back to gameex. If I use the launch before option, it launches GlovePIE, stalls, closes back to gameex and GlovePIE is still open, so it looks like MAME isn't even launching!

I tried to use a bat to launch it instead using:

@echo off
start /MIN D:\SYS_Apps\GlovePIE\glovepie.exe -D:\SYS_Apps\GlovePIE\WiimoteScripts\MAME_IR_PPJoy_x2.PIE

but the result is the same.

Title: Re: launching glovepie from command line issues
Post by: dezblack on October 09, 2009, 05:48:24 pm

I got this resolved, thanks to some help from the Gammex frontend forum guys.

I'm using an ahk script to launch glovepie and its working great.