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Running Multiple Programs as One

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:40 pm
by Chris
I have a old dos game I play modded, but in order to load it I need to drag and drop a couple of items into a exe, is there a way I can create a button that would do this for me?

Both of these programs:

A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\DOOM2.WAD
A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\steve_flashlight_2018.02.12.pk7

Needs to be dropped on this program in order for everything to run right:

A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\gzdoom.exe

Re: Running Multiple Programs as One

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:52 am
by Wavget
You could create a button that starts gzdoom and uses mouse functions to drag the other programs to it.

However, it seems gzdoom accepts command line parameters to start.
https://zdoom.org/wiki/Installation_and ... n_of_ZDoom
https://zdoom.org/wiki/How_to_autoload_files

This may work
{run A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\gzdoom.exe,A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\DOOM2.WAD}

Not exactly sure how to add the 2nd file but it seems just a space as a separator
{run A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\gzdoom.exe,A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\DOOM2.WAD A:\Games\gzdoom-4-7-1-Windows-64bit\steve_flashlight_2018.02.12.pk7}