Can you close a program in Eventghost?

[queequeeg78]

I have a program called Amblone that I have assigned to a keystroke on my remote. I would like to close it with another key stroke. Is this possible in Eventghost?

Thanks very much.

[Siutsch]

I do that with a cmd-file with the following content:

taskkill /F /IM program.exe

You only have to link this cmd-file with in EG with "Start application" (I do not know what that means in english-version of EG, I use german).

Siutsch.

[zian]

I have a program called Amblone that I have assigned to a keystroke on my remote. I would like to close it with another key stroke. Is this possible in Eventghost?

Thanks very much.

Did you look in the EG Action area?
Close/exit?

[eatmeimadanish]

I normally use both. I close the app with the comon close command, then kill the process just to make sure. For instance XBMC sometimes doesnt want to close nicely, but force killing works everytime.

[queequeeg78]

Can you tell me exactly how to do that eatmeimadanish (btw the best screen name!) Here is my problems. I recently built a Ambient lighting system for my TV and well first problem is when I am in XBMC i have a button configured to start the lights up BUT it seems that XBMC goes in the background and windows is now running in front...its because of that my rewind, fast foward, any buttons dont work, except stop (which I assigned to turn the movies PLUS the lights off). Second problem is when I do shut off the lights with the kill process cmd file windows taskbar is visable and my remote becomes uselss and I need to use the mouse to make XBMC the first running progam again.

[jonib]

Here is my problems. I recently built a Ambient lighting system for my TV and well first problem is when I am in XBMC i have a button configured to start the lights up BUT it seems that XBMC goes in the background and windows is now running in front...its because of that my rewind, fast foward, any buttons dont work,

If you use the XBMC2 plugin to control XBMC then it will work even if XBMC is not in focus.

Second problem is when I do shut off the lights with the kill process cmd file windows taskbar is visable and my remote becomes uselss and I need to use the mouse to make XBMC the first running progam again.

You can also use the action Bring to front to make XBMC in focus.

jonib

[eatmeimadanish]

Under Start an Application select the drop down window "Window Options" and select hidden. This will run it in the background and not steal focus.