vkdawg

I've discovered that I'm losing focus on Pinball Arcade somehow when launching through the front end I'm using, PinballX. If I run PinballArcadeLoader.exe from a command line, it works great - Pinball Arcade loads up, selects the appropriate table, hides the text message, and hovers the mouse over the "Start" button so all I have to do is press the button on my cabinet assigned to "Enter/Select". When it loads through my front end, the mouse cursor gets "stuck" behind Pinball Arcade somehow. I even have a hard time getting it back with the mouse sometimes. I can't figure it out. Can anyone help me with an AHK script to make Pinball Arcade the active window, and get control of the mouse back? I'm totally lost on how to resolve this. What's weird is that I don't have this issue with TPAFreeCamMod even when launching through PinballX.

Okay, now this is starting to drive me crazy! Surely other people must have an issue not being able to start a game in a pinball cabinet because when the game loads up the cursor is not focused or placed on the "Start" button?? I have to move my mouse EVERY so I can get the it over the "Start" button. It really defeats the purpose of having a pinball cabinet. What can I do to simply load into a game, hit the assigned "Enter" key, and have it click on the "Start" button for the table, and start the game??

Thanks for the reply! I'm not really sure I understand anything you said, but I appreciate you responding. I guess I'll just use it as is. Still better than FreeCamMod, even if it's not doing 100% of what I hoped. Thanks for making it!

ducon2016!! WOW!! After days of struggling to get FreeCamMod to work how I wanted, I stumbled upon your PinballArcadeLoader. AMAZING!! You have made life SO MUCH more simpler with this incredible loader!!! Thank you for putting this together. After playing most of the morning, I did have a few questions (and requests) for you - When I first load into a game, the cursor does not appear to have "focus" on anything. I hit my assigned "enter/select" button, but nothing happens. I have to move left/right (flippers on my pinball cab), but that goes into the ball selection. It's not a huge deal, I just have to choose a ball every time because it doesn't start "focused" on the "Start" button. Is there a way you can force it to focus on the "Start" button so I don't have to go left/right and choose a ball first? The only parameter I'm using is HIDETEXT, but I tried it with and without, and both ways there is no focus on the "Start" button when a table loads up. Secondly, is there any way to "disable" the exit on Esc feature? My frontend (PinballX) handles that, and I'd like to be able to Esc into the menu if I'd like to. Lastly, is something happening to block out the secondary display monitor? With PinballX, I like to have the backglass video continue to play when I'm playing Pinball Arcade. Even if I don't "Hide Backglass" in PinballX, it seems like the PinballArcadeLoader is blacking out the secondary display, thus just blacking it out instead of allowing PinballX to play the backglass video. These are pretty minor things, but I would be elated if you could address these. Please let me know your thoughts. If you were able to provide a way for these three scenarios work better for me, it would put me over the moon! I created an account here just so I could post to thank you for this incredible contribution to the virtual pinball community! Thanks, vkdawg