Remap button if application is running

[level20peon]

Hey guys,

I would like to remap specific buttons when a specific application is running.

So if I click the "Up" Button on my JoyPad I would like to send a Keyboard "Cursor up" if the process "test.exe" exists and the process "test2.exe" doesn't exist.

Any ideas how I could realize this ??

Mapping keys to keys on other devices isn't the problem... I know the basics of event-ghost, but I don't know how to script this scenario.

In AutoIt the code looks like this:

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	While JoyMoveUp (1) OR JoyMoveUp (2) OR JoyMoveUp (3) OR JoyMoveUp (4)
		sleep (75)
		If not ProcessExists("testexe") AND not ProcessExists("test2.exe") Then
		send("{UP}")
		EndIf
	WEnd

This emulates a keyboard stroke (UP) everytime I press the "UP" button on one of my four joypads. I wanted to migrate this to EventGhost because looping this script in AutoIt uses quite some CPU time.


Thanks for any suggestions

-level20peon

[Bartman]

You can look for the window if the fiind window and a conditional jump macro or use the task plugin to switch between to folders of macros.

[level20peon]

Yes this was the way I already tried but there seems to be something wrong with the code. The {Up} is always sent, no matter if or what of the two processes exists. Any clue ?

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="908">
    <Macro Name="Remap" Expanded="True">
        <Event Name="PAD 2.Value.15">
        </Event>
        <Action>
            Window.FindWindow(u'test.exe', None, None, None, None, None, True, 0.0, 2)
        </Action>
        <Action Name="gg.exe gefunden">
            EventGhost.NewJumpIf(XmlIdLink(-1), 0, False)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.FindWindow(u'test2.exe', None, None, None, None, None, False, 0.0, 2)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.SendKeys(u'{Up}', False)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.10000000000000001, 0.10000000000000001, 0.10000000000000001, 0.10000000000000001)
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

-level20peon

[level20peon]

I now got what I wanted. I implemented jump markers in a totally wrong way. Thanks anyways


-level20peon

[mfsav2]

How did you do that?

I'm now able to have it, find window hangs the sequence if application is not running

[level20peon]

Here's an excerpt of my current script, maybe it helps:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <EventGhost Name="Konfigurations-Baum" Expanded="True" Version="1262" Guid="{910D6DB5-250B-4809-B05D-040807A74088}" Time="1209900693.52">
    <Autostart Name="Autostart" Expanded="True">
	  <Plugin File="HID" Identifier="HID">...</Plugin>
	  <Plugin File="HID" Identifier="HID7">...</Plugin>
	  <Plugin Enabled="False" File="HID" Identifier="HID2">...</Plugin>
	  <Plugin Enabled="False" File="HID" Identifier="HID3">...</Plugin>
	  <Plugin Enabled="False" File="Joystick" Identifier="Joystick">gAIpLg==</Plugin>
	</Autostart>
	
	<Folder Name="{UP}">
	  <Macro Name="{UP}">
	    <Event Name="Joystick.Up"></Event>
		<Action>Window.FindWindow(u'gg.exe', None, None, None, None, None, True, 0.0, 2)</Action>
		<Action Name="gg.exe nicht gefunden">EventGhost.NewJumpIf(XmlIdLink(86), 1, False)</Action>
	  </Macro>
	  <Macro Name="{UP}" id="86">
	    <Action>Window.FindWindow(u'mame.exe', None, None, None, None, None, True, 0.0, 2)</Action>
		<Action Name="mame.exe nicht gefunden">EventGhost.NewJumpIf(XmlIdLink(89), 1, False)</Action>
	  </Macro>
	  <Macro Name="{UP}" id="89">
	    <Action>Window.SendKeys(u'{Up}', False)</Action>
		<Action>EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.40000000000000002, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)</Action>
	  </Macro>
	</Folder>
	
  </EventGhost>