Script To Launch PNG System Info (Just a discussion)

[Fromlostdays]

This is in off topic discussion because it's just a rudimentary idea I'm playing with and hoping for some feedback.

So now I'm getting into autohotkey, and I realized just how easy it is to launch images, and I'm thinking about trying to assign a hotkey to launch an artwork image with system information (These will need to be made, right now I just captured the wiki page for SNES and turned it into a png.) It's actually really easy:

^J::

Run, %A_WorkingDir%\Super Nintendo Entertainment System.png

^w::

Send !{F4}

Return

Provided the image is in the same directory at the ahk script, Control J will launch the image (in its default viewer) and Control W will close the active window. It works fine. However, there are some huge obstacles to make this simple script viable for Hyperspin.

The first is that most viewers (windows photo viewer) have annoying interface bars and borders etc that make it ugly. To circumvent this there is a program called Frameless that just launches the image full screen with no borders. Easy enough, just set frameless.exe as the default launcher of the png.

The next obstacle, and where I'm stuck, (besides the prospect of making these info artworks for 130 systems) is the script somehow needs to know what wheel you're currently on. I suspect this is impossible. So you're navigating through your wheels and somehow the same hotkey, in this case Control J, will have to get the info from hyperspin of what wheel you're currently looking at, and launch THAT png. I know this would be much easier in Hyperpause but, perhaps out of boredom, I think it would be cool to have while navigating the main menu.

Anyway, like I said, off topic discussion. Any thoughts/ideas are welcome.

Thanks,

[albert]

use HyperMarquee

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?31916-HyperMarquee&highlight=hypermarquee

[gigapig]

I know you want it for HyperSpin, but there's always instruction cards if you want to show images when playing a game.

Nice idea btw.

[Fromlostdays]

Born of necessity haha. It's sad but with everyone putting in so much work to make the systems easy, I have like 20 that I know absolutely nothing about. Shout out to Craig and DrMax. Those guys are doing it big. But when I have company and do the showcase, my friend is like "What the hell is Dragon 64?" I'm like "Yeah about that.... shut up and just admire this, will ya?"