Game Launcher Program
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Soo, I am trying to make a simple program using inputs to type an input to open different games. Basically, I need to know if there's a way to have something like
game$ = Input("What game would you like to run? ")
If Lower(game) = "minecraft" or Lower(game) = "m" then openfile(minecraft.exe)
Basically, I need to know if something like "OpenFile" exists. |
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| ExecFile("minecraft.exe") Although IIRC minecraft isn't actually an executable, but a java .JAR file that launches java and runs itself when you click on it?) another tip: rather than checking the lowercase versions for a number of options, you may just want to add a single statement: game$=lower(game$) ...after which you can just do:
If game$ = "minecraft" or game$="m" then ExecFile("c:\games\minecraft\minecraft.exe")
If game$ = "doom" or game$="d" then ExecFile("c:\games\doom\doom.exe")
without having to repeat your lower() for every check, adding more code and more processing work to the mix Or, a different kind of notation that may make things more manageable:
Select Game$
Case "minecraft","m"
ExecFile("c:\games\minecraft\minecraft.exe")
Case "doom","d"
ExecFile("c:\games\doom\doom.exe")
Default
Print "Unknown Game, choose a different one!"
WaitKey()
End Select
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| Minecraft is a .exe for windows. On other OS's the launcher is java I believe. Anyway, back on topic. ExecFile works perfectly! Thank you! |
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| One more question. I would make a new thread but it's related. How would I make it open a link in browser? |
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| One more question. I would make a new thread but it's related. How would I make it open a link in browser? Exactly the same way:
ExecFile("http://www.yahoo.com")
Which will launch your default webbrowser and open the specified URL. |
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| (EDIT: both ninja'd and also wrong.) |
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| Thank you! |
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