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jargha · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

Hello all,

I have just been playing around with GlovePie and my Wiimote since just a few hours ago and wrote my first script to control VLCPlayer. I would like to add functionality to the script to shutdown windows but am having some problems - has anyone else tried this?

I tried:

TylerK · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 384 Location: Springfield, IL

There's a command called ExitPIE that closes GlovePIE, but I've never used it before. I'm not sure how you'd go about using it in this case, though. You probably want to close down GlovePIE before Alt + U is pressed, but doing the first would cancel the second. You might try having it send the Alt + U and then closing GlovePIE. It might close before Windows decides to complain about it.

kUrRaZyMaN · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

The best way to do this would be to create a batch file containing:

shutdown -s -t 30

You can then execute this from glovepie using Execute("C:\shutdown.bat") - obviously change the path to wherever you decide to store the batch file. Once executed you can then shutdown glovepie using the Exitpie command.

Haven't tried any of this but it should work OK

speaker219 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 187 Location: New York

SwedishFrog · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

There's also a windows library function that shuts down windows. I don't remember the exact name of the call, but it's there and you can google it.

Normal keystroke programming may not work effectively cause the xp shutdown box is a special window. This may be some sort of security measure -- I dunno I don't have a computer to test it on.

You should consider moving the alt-f4 keystroke to some other button besides wiimote.b because its easy to hit B by accident, for instance, when you put the controller down.