Calling An External Program

**SkyPainter** · 12-21-2009, 12:13 PM

What is the structure/syntax for calling an external program from within RR? I'm using AudioRepeater to switch a line-in on one of my soundcards to transfer audio from my Sirius radio. It has some command-line switches, so I just need to be able to call the program with the switches, and exit the program when I switch to another audio app (i realize this may require a conditional structure for calling foobar or video - does RR have such?). Any help would be appreciated.

**Enforcer** · 12-21-2009, 01:45 PM

Have a look in skincommands.txt for Run , RunW and runQ

**GizmoQ** · 12-21-2009, 10:53 PM

Yeah, RTFM!

**SkyPainter** · 12-29-2009, 07:13 PM

OK, figured out how to get the app started and shut down from within the specific skins. My problem now is to be able to shut the app down (if it exists) when I exit RR. Any simple way to add something to rr.ini to accomplish this? I use Runq to start Audiorepeater and call Windows Powershell to shut it down (couldn't get Winspector to function properly) when I switch to my main Audio Player (Foobar).

**Blue ZX3** · 12-29-2009, 11:33 PM

Try adding to exectbl

"QUIT","<CMD TO SHUT DOWN THE APP HERE>||NOW_QUIT"
"NOW_QUIT","QUIT"

**SkyPainter** · 12-30-2009, 11:07 AM

Sorry. Guess I wasn't clear enough in my last request. I can shut down the app; I need to know where, specifically, to insert the code to shut the app down when I exit RR. I assumed it would be in one of the Exec Tables, but which one and where in the table? I will need to provide a conditional structure for the shutdown, so hopefully the insert location will allow that.