Help: disable macro if a condition is meet.

[fabs]

hi. i've been using event ghost for some time and i'm having some trouble.
as i use eventghost on a HTPC as the windows shell, i've configured a macro that automatically restarts XBMC if it crashes, using process watcher (Process.Destroyed.XBMC -> run program XBMC.exe)
what i want to do is to disable that macro if steam is running.
so if steam is running, kill xbmc. and if steam is closed, run xbmc again. but if i put, said macro, the one mentioned before will fire up and reopen xbmc.
any way to disable the macro if another macro is active and reenable it after closing?

thanks for answering

[Dragon470]

Here is a little script you can use:

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from eg.cFunctions import GetProcessDict

newProcesses = GetProcessDict()
for x in newProcesses:
    if "notepad.exe" == str(newProcesses[x]):
        print "Process found, now stopping script"
        eg.StopMacro()

just replace notepad.exe with steam.exe or whatever it is. This will stop the macro if it finds the specified program.

[kkl]

Depending on the specifics of what you're trying to do, you may also want to look at an example that comes with the default .xml file for EG: Under Other Examples -> State Macro Example. Each macro enables or disables another macro depending on the status of something. There's also a second example.

[fabs]

Here is a little script you can use:

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from eg.cFunctions import GetProcessDict

newProcesses = GetProcessDict()
for x in newProcesses:
    if "notepad.exe" == str(newProcesses[x]):
        print "Process found, now stopping script"
        eg.StopMacro()

just replace notepad.exe with steam.exe or whatever it is. This will stop the macro if it finds the specified program.

took me a while to figure out that this script was case-sensitive, but this worked flawlessly. thanks for your help.

Depending on the specifics of what you're trying to do, you may also want to look at an example that comes with the default .xml file for EG: Under Other Examples -> State Macro Example. Each macro enables or disables another macro depending on the status of something. There's also a second example.

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this is awesome!. i had no idea eventghost could do that. will try to experiment on that.

i mainly use EventGhost as a replacement for the windows shell and as a launcher of startup/crash-recovery of media center apps. so my configuration is very simple at the moment: some server apps on autostart, a macro to restart crashed apps and another for killing an app is another app is launching and restoring it if it closes.