Exit feature

[BadBoyBill]

What do you guys think of an exiting feature like the Ultrapin where you have to hold the exit key for 3 seconds while in a game to exit the game.

I accidentally hit the escape key while I was one hit away from destroying mars in AFM. Pissed me off. Then Dazz also noticed that I have my exit game key on the front of my cab, I dont think I'll ever bump into it but if I did that would suck to.

So I think I can add a feature to the launcher that when you hold escape it doesnt exit the game (optional of course) then on the screen you will see just like on the UP some images appear 3..... 2......1.. then the game will exit.

[Cameron]

It is a good idea, but make it optional. I do find on my Ultrapin that people don't get the hold it down for 3 seconds thing. They hit exit and then say "How do you get out of this thing?"

[BadBoyBill]

Well I just finished adding the exit feature, no more accidentally exiting games.

It only works on Visual Pinball because Future Pinball is a fullscreen 3D application which cant be overlayed with my own graphics. This is the only drawback.

[brian_hoffman]

Nice!

[BadBoyBill]

Well if anyone wants to test let me know, its 3 picture files and a new FPLaunch.exe file. You dont need a new HP for this.

[Cameron]

I can test it out on both my machines.

[magostin]

bbb,

i would like to test it as well please...

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my 3 year old daughter keeps hitting the exit button on the pinball wizard controller cause she has to lean forward to see the flippers.

this would help out, thx

magostin

[BadBoyBill]

Ok put these 3 images into your Media/HyperPin/Images folder:

Then make a backup of your old FPLaunch files and use these new ones.

FPLaunch_1.2.zip

[Cameron]

OK I will try it out today.

[Cameron]

OK well today means the day after today

OK well I tried it out and it didn't exactly work for me.

I saved the images. They saved as Exit 1... etc. They were .jpg files though. Are they supposed to be .jpgs?

If I hold down esc., it does exit after about 3 seconds, but the graphics don't show up.

Do those need to be .png files?

[Cameron]

If you have Enable_Exit_Screen menu set to true. It enables you to exit with the 3 seconds too. I think that is a nice thing actually. Maybe when you have Enable_Exit_Screen set to true it doesn't show the graphics and when it is set to false it does show them.

[Cameron]

Well I converted them over to .png files and it still didn't show so I am not sure why it is not showing at this point.

[Cameron]

OK I just looked in the AHK file and they do need to be .jpgs

[gba18]

Great idea! I'll try it out later. Thanks.

[Cameron]

gba18. Is it working OK for you? Just wondering if the problems are just me.

[BadBoyBill]

bump in case anyone forgot about this special version of fplaunch, I use it on my cab to prevent accidentally escaping back to Hyperpin.

[bossgp]

I downloaded everything but have never got it to work, please some simple instructions for us old boys here...

[Dazz]

I downloaded everything but have never got it to work, please some simple instructions for us old boys here...

Right click and save the 3 images and place them into your HyperPin/Media/HyperPin/Images folder. Backup your existing FPLaunch.exe and .ahk, then put the FPlaunch.exe and .ahk into your HyperPin directory and overwrite.

I did this earlier today, thus the resurrection of this thread.

I think I need to look at the script and see if we can figure out how to get it to return to the game if the button is released. Right now the VP exit box comes up and you have to click continue to keep playing.

[BadBoyBill]

It doesnt do that for me, maybe you should reroute your escape button to something else

[Dazz]

It doesnt do that for me, maybe you should reroute your escape button to something else

It could be a Windows 7 thing. I just did a quick test before I had to head out to work. I'll have to look at the script tomorrow and see what's going on.

[bossgp]

ok thank you I got it to work on my pincab now my only issue is I think it counts 3, 2 ,1 too fast, anyway to slow it down a bit ?? great idea though, excellent

[shilmover]

Quick question...

I am trying to get something like this to work with Future Pinball. I know that I cant put the pictures over the playfield, but I was hoping that I could do something with the DMD area on my pin.

I copied what was necessary to FP in the launch script, but now FP does exit at all. VP works great. thoughts?

[shilmover]

Quick question...

I am trying to get something like this to work with Future Pinball. I know that I cant put the pictures over the playfield, but I was hoping that I could do something with the DMD area on my pin.

I copied what was necessary to FP in the launch script, but now FP does exit at all. VP works great. thoughts?

Anyone?

[pixelmagic]

This is great, thanks a lot !! (after losing some games with my knee to the button)