or8ital's HyperSpin Helper Software - 2nd / 3rd Display Controller

[or8ital]

That machine looks great!! I need to get working on building mine.

[connorsdad]

Yes. Just flip the screens each is displayed on.

I can't as my emulators resolution is set for the upper monitor (higher resolution)

As soon as I swap them the emus crash. Only way is to switch off the monitor. Also some of my emulators refuse to run on the secondary monitor. Another glitch is when using my lightgun on secondary monitor if I press the trigger it loses focus as the pc sees the mouse clicked on the primary screen.

[connorsdad]

My idea (theory) is for hyperspin to launch an ahk.exe for each lightgun game that:

1. Kills HSHelper

2. Switches display mode to "projector only"

3. Launches an instance of an emulator with settings for that particular game.

4. Switches display mode back to "external" on exit.

5. Re-launch HSHelper.

[or8ital]

Good point and I can't switch them until hyperlaunch has started which means the emulator has as well.

[connorsdad]

Script all ready and working apart from HSHelper

Posted so you could see what's happening at my end.

Loop
{

Process, Wait, pcsxr-lightgun.exe

Process,Close, HyperSpinHelper.exe

sleep, 2000

run C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe /external

sleep, 1000

WinGetActiveTitle, title

WinMinimize, %title%

WinMaximize, %title%

Process,WaitClose, pcsxr-lightgun.exe

run C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe /extend

;run C:\HyperSpinHelper\HyperSpinHelper.exe

}

[or8ital]

I think I might know what's going on. My pc is currently not setup so once I get that setup again I will take a look.

[or8ital]

OK, It should be fixed now. Let me know. Thanks.

[connorsdad]

Brilliant I'm afk (pub), can't wait try this

[connorsdad]

Still not working.

How do I stop it from starting hyperspin?

I have it loading on windows startup so its ready when I run HS

[or8ital]

To not have it launch HS then change the settings.xml file where it says "LaunchHSonStart" set that to false.

Is it still crashing when you run your AHK script to remove the monitor?

[or8ital]

Try the version I just uploaded and see if that works. I made the change I think I need in only 2 of the 3 places it is needed. If you have the bezel enabled then it would have crashed the last time you tried it.

[connorsdad]

Still crashes when my ahk loads it. I'm getting it from HS ftp, is this the right place for the latest version ?

[or8ital]

I'll have to take a look again tonight. Does it work with that system if you don't disconnect the monitor? I want to make sure I'm chasing the right problem.

[connorsdad]

Yes works fine until I kill the process and then try to relaunch it.

Appreciate you trying to fix this

[or8ital]

Just looked at your scripts again. Try not killing HShelper and see what happens. Just disable the monitor.

What is your AHK saying that causes you to think it is giving an error when it tries to launch again?

[connorsdad]

If I don't kill HSHelper it crashes anyway, when I try to relaunch it, it says HSHelper has stopped working click to close.

[or8ital]

It crashes after the updated code from yesterday if you don't close it? Hmmm

[or8ital]

Can you run your script compiled? I think it might be because HSHelper requires admin privileges and not confirming the UAC is causing it to crash. If you compile it you can then run that exe as an admin.

[or8ital]

I think I figured it out finally. It was inside a delegate for another thread so handling the error was a little obscure. You should be able to keep HSHelper running now. New version on FTP

[connorsdad]

Brilliant, it works

No need to kill it now it just works perfect. Much appreciated, thank you

Glad I still get to use HSHelper, it's a great piece of software.

[or8ital]

Glad we could finally get it working.

[irfdude]

Orbital, ive just read this thread. Great piece of software. Also a thanks to Sandman and yourself for working through issues.

Im sure it will come in handy when I finally start my project.

I have an old playstation 1 travel screen which I plan to mod into a secondary display and thismsoftware looks like it will put it to great use.

[or8ital]

Testing with RocketLauncher.0 tonight to see if there are any compatibility issues or new content we can tie into.

[or8ital]

I've updated to work with RocketLauncher.0. Unfortunately I can't upload as the FTP site is saying it is above its maximum limit.

[or8ital]

OK, finally got in. Now updating. Kept the old version out there for the old Hyperlaunch (I did have to make changes for the new). I have no fully tested this with the new Hyperlaunch but it should work. Let me know if you find any issues.