Ongoing Is there a program that starts/ shutdown another program? (1 Viewer)

[geniv2]

just wondering.

Is there a program out there that let me:
- configure a program to start/shutdown
- when I start it it would load the program
- if I run the program again it would close the configured program.

the reason I'm asking is I have a HTPC and have no keybaoard attached but I have IR remote control and a logitech rumblepad2 gamepad attached.

I want to be able to use a button on the remote to toggle the "start/close" program to toggle the loading and unload of "controlMK" (a keyboard/mouse mapping program for my game pad.)


so for HTPC use, my gamepad will function as a mouse and simplified keyboard but when I want to play game I can toggle/shut down the controlMK program.

 

[SweetHome]

perhaps you may take a look at Eventghost http://www.eventghost.org/wiki/EventGhost:About

There is a plugin for gamepads.
Your desired function to load programs.
and you can set the buttons for your gamepad.

I've been looking for myself just a few weeks ago, but look at it - its pretty intuitive once you figured out how it works.