Galactic War Notification Script

[Duck_42]

Those of you who play Galactic War know that sitting there waiting for a battle can be tedious. If you leave your PC for a bit though, you may miss the start of a fight and lose by default. To help with this problem, I created the following batch script.

Instructions

1. Copy and paste the code below into a new text file.
2. Change C:\Users\ProfileName\Music\PathToSomeMediaFile.mp3 to a valid sound/video file that you want to play when FA starts.
3. Save the text file as GalacticWarNotification.bat
4. Run (double click) on the batch file that you just saved.
5. Attack a planet
6. Wait...

NOTE: You must restart the script after each time it notifies you.

Code: Select all

@ECHO OFF
ECHO FAF Galactic War Notification Script v1.0
ECHO by Duck_42
ECHO -----------------------------------------
ECHO Waiting for Forged Aliance to start...
ECHO Press Ctrl-C to quit

:mainloop

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq ForgedAlliance.exe" 2>NUL | find /I /N "ForgedAlliance.exe">NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" GOTO PlayAlert

timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK > NUL
goto mainloop

:PlayAlert
ECHO Forged Aliance has started!
ECHO Triggering notification...
ECHO -----------------------------------------
start "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" "C:\Users\ProfileName\Music\PathToSomeMediaFile.mp3"

ECHO Script finished!
pause

As always, please post any questions or comments on this thread so I'll be sure to see them.

[rockoe10]

Something like this would be nice to have implemented into FAF

[Kulu]

How does it work? Playing a sound or calling your cellphone or what ?

[Duck_42]

It opens Windows Media Player and has it plays whichever file you specify. You could change the script to run vlc or another program if you wanted.

Theoretically, you could have it run a program to send an e-mail/text to your phone. Not sure about actually calling your phone though.

[Kulu]

Maybe via Skype:D

[Ze_PilOt]

Skype has a very complete API, this is very possible