VoxCommando

General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: nofear87 on August 15, 2010, 04:54:11 PM

Title: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: nofear87 on August 15, 2010, 04:54:11 PM
james, is it possible to add this function in the next version?
i think its helpfull when somebody (like me  :) ) will start VC with Windows.
Or this function already exist?

Robert
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: Shodan on August 15, 2010, 10:42:38 PM
I was wondering the same thing
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: jitterjames on August 15, 2010, 11:26:29 PM
yup! Star it with the command line option

VoxCommando.exe -Standby

or

VoxCommando.exe -Off

(It is currently case sensitive - I should fix that)
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: nofear87 on August 16, 2010, 06:01:23 AM
is it possible to add it in the settingswindow as checkbox? (in the next version)
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: jitterjames on August 16, 2010, 09:42:05 AM
I don't think I want to do that. Is there some reason you cannot call it with the command line option? That does remind me though, I think I will add the ability to run a startup macro. You could set the mode there.
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: nofear87 on August 16, 2010, 12:52:17 PM
yes thats also nice ;)
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: painy on November 07, 2010, 04:39:58 PM
this only works if you use the shortcut itself, pinning the shortcut to windows 7 taskbar and running it doesn't seem to run it in standby mode :S
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: jitterjames on November 07, 2010, 05:16:49 PM
it works fine for me.  Right-click the icon on the taskbar (when the program is NOT running)

you should get two choices

then right-click the voxcommando.exe that pops up and choose properties

add -Standby to the end of target field.  It should look something like:

C:\VoxCommandoDebug\VoxCommando.exe -Standby

note that you need the - and it is case sensitive so you need the capital S
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: painy on November 08, 2010, 04:55:14 PM
Ah you're right, i dragged an already modified shortcut to the taskbar rather then modifying it when the shortcut was allready placed on the taskbar as you suggested.
Title: Re: Start VC in Standby Mode
Post by: jitterjames on November 08, 2010, 07:10:11 PM
btw you can also set this modifying the options.  look at the section called "triggered speech emulation" at the bottom right of the main tab.  There is a field called "starup command".  There you can type a phrase that matches the phrase you use for Standby in your command tree.

The command line option is safer though I think.