Prompt before exe from list/specific drive starts
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#5 Prompt before exe from list/specific drive starts
Would it be possible to have a prompt pop up whenever you opened a program from a selected list, a certain drive (like a steam library dedicated drive), etc.? I have been trying to use a hotkey to automatically send my active window to my secondary monitor, but the biggest issue I have been encountering is an audio output changeover. Most games don't like to change audio output devices onces they start from what I have seen. If there was a way to 'intercept' the request to start an exe from the above listed, and prompt the user to select between Monitor and TV (along with their respective audio and video devices), that would bypass the audio issue because it is determined before the app/program is even opened.
This is a very interesting idea. Monitoring all executables according to an arbitrary filter would be too complex, likely requiring a file system driver: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1109590/67824
However, there seems to be a simple and elegant way to monitor all processes by name from a pre-defined list: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2682447/67824
A couple of follow-up questions:
1. Why manage a list in TVGL instead of just creating TV shortcuts for those programs?
2. Why prompt and not execute according to pre-defined configuration? (e.g. program A runs on monitor, program B runs on TV)