Help to add a simple option to Splash Screen

[Zazamastro]

Hello everyone,

I do not know if I am in the correct section, but I would like to make a simple request if possible.

I tried in every way to modify the Splash Screen plugin to make sure that the games started in the background in sync WITH the beginning of the custom video, and not AFTER the end of that.

In this way you would be able to hide a lot of annoying windows (for example, the list of RPCS3 games before it goes into fullscreen, or the various loaders of PC games, or even the Dolphin window, I could go on forever!) I don't understand anything about coding, I downloaded Visual Studio but I don't know how to use it... I know that many users had made this precise request but the situation is stucked since the thread of this extesion was closed.

It’s probably a very simple thing, but unfortunately I don’t really get it myself, sorry... I tried, I tried so much  .


Thank you so much in advance.

[Kosnix]

I think the extension should just wait for a new window to appear before closing.
It should not be able to know what is happening in the emulator. You could try doing a bat script with nircmd to keep the splashscreen in the foreground. You can use "bat to exe converter" to not show the window.

[Zazamastro]

I think the extension should just wait for a new window to appear before closing.
It should not be able to know what is happening in the emulator.  You could try doing a bat script with nircmd to keep the splashscreen in the foreground.  You can use "bat to exe converter" to not show the window.

Thank you so much for the tip! Unfortunately I don’t know where to start to create a script with nircmd. Everything I found is on this page (https://nircmd.nirsoft.net/script.html), but I don’t even know if that’s what it takes to do what you say... 

However I wonder how it is possible that no one else has thought to ask anything about this (I do not say it in a polemical tone). I mean it’s a standard simple thing in Launchbox / BigBox... 

[Kosnix]

you have to make a file ".bat" and put your command like this

nircmd.exe Command1
nircmd.exe Command2
nircmd.exe Command3
nircmd.exe Command4

These commands may be of interest to you : https://nircmd.nirsoft.net/win.html
don't forget to keep nircmd in the same folder as your bat file

Nircmd is a bit complicated at first, but it's a very powerful tool

[Zazamastro]

I created a bat file called block.bat with the following line

nircmd.exe foreground SplashScreen.dll

and putted nircmd.exe and the block.bat in "AppData\Roaming\Playnite\Extensions\SplashScreen_d8c4f435-2bd2-49d8-98f6-87b1d415934a" but it doesn't work. It looks like the bat is simply ignored. Could you give it a try when you have some free time? I think I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what, since I don't know exactly what I'm doing.