Launch games from your Dock

[Tha_Rainman]

Instead of pointing the shortcut to a game directly point it to a .bat file. (tha_roosta will like this )

In the batch file write this. This example launches UT on my PC:

taskkill /IM YzDock.exe
"E:\Games\UT2003\System\UT2003.exe"
"D:\Program Files\yzDockBeta 0.7\yzdock.exe"

Once you quit the game it starts up YZ again.

pretty useful eh

EDIT: This technique is from a guy in my other forum, see this thread

Edited April 14, 2003 by Tha_Rainman

[Mr. Burns]

wow

that's a great tip

trying it out now, withthe new yz dick

[Tha_Rainman]

Only problem is the CMD window remains once you quit and you have to close it manually. Also, I'm having a problem launching battlefield 1942 which takes parameters. tha_roosta the .bat masta might come up with something

[Tha_rooster]

shouldn't exit at the end of the .bat do the trick?

 

taskkill /IM YzDock.exe
"E:\Games\UT2003\System\UT2003.exe"
"D:\Program Files\yzDockBeta 0.7\yzdock.exe"
exit

btw i'm not a .bat master(yet)

[Mr. Burns]

yea, figured that one out too

but still roosta, you're learning dos/.bat much faster than me

[Tha_Rainman]

Does adding 'exit' work? Peeps at the forum said it didn't.

[Mr. Burns]

nah doesn't...

coz the dos is stuck on: "C:\Program Files\YZDock\yzdock.exe"

it doesn't end that for some reason..

stop

exit

taskkill /cmd.exe

all three should work, but forzen on "C:\Program Files\YZDock\yzdock.exe"

that's unfortuante

[Tha_Rainman]

I even tried

EXIT /B

which means quit the batch script opposed to quit cmd prompt. Didn't work, probably something to do with yz dock and being executed by dos. Btw, try DOS in fullscreen its different to windows 9x