Need a program to start and stop sporadically.

[anthero]

My goal is to use xpadder to control windows 7 with an xbox controller. Simple, but I need the program to stop emulating the mouse and keyboard when certain applications run fullscreen like a game that uses the gamepad. I also need xpadder to start again after the game closes. Are there any applications that can manage this? A script maybe? I would post this in PC Gaming but it is a program I need and not exclusively for gaming . Any ideas?

 

[sm625]

You can use taskkill to kill xspadder before calling whatever game.exe you want to run. Place those commands in a batch file and place a shortcut to that batch file wherever your current game.exe shortcut exists. Use start /wait to ensure that the batch file stays running until you exit the game. Then as the last line of the batch file, reinvoke xpadder.

Example:

taskkill /im xspadder.exe
start /wait "C:\Game Folder\mygamethatusesgamepad.exe"
start xspadder.exe

 

[anthero]

Thanks for replying. I will try it out as soon as I can