bat files

[jpfuse]

i don't know if this is even the right forum but i am trying to right a batch file which will close certain running programs, launch a game, and upon exit of the game, run the programs that were closed. i know how to close a prog and open the game, but i don't know how to run the progs when the game exits.

[megashawn]

i don't know if this is even the right forum but i am trying to right a batch file which will close certain running programs, launch a game, and upon exit of the game, run the programs that were closed. i know how to close a prog and open the game, but i don't know how to run the progs when the game exits.

I'm not real sure if that is doable, unless the game sends some kind of code on exit that could execute a batch file.

What game is it? What programs? Perhaps your best bet would be to simply create a batch file that executes your programs, then use this to start the programs, and a command within this batch starts the game and closes the programs.

As to restarting the programs when the game exits, I'm stumped.

[Pergatory]

I'm with Megashawn. You need some sort of event synchronization that runs when the game is shut down. What you are doing is beyond the scope of a batch file. Batch files are for triggering a series of events, not being triggered by those events. Although they can be made to have some structure, I recommend looking at something like VBScript that was meant for these kind of things.