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hello,
does anyone know of a way to launch a file or executable on vlc launch ?
the main purpose is to use autohotkeyhttp://www.autohotkey.com to convert mouse buttons to keyboard keys, to be able to use the mouse buttons in the shortcut configuration or even reassign the mousewheel to whatever I want it to do

I'm searching of a way so that double clicking a video will auto-launch a autohotkey script OR executable. (and autohotkey will deal with closing itself upon vlc close)

thanks for any idea.

Instead of VLC, launch .bat file that open VLC and other software?

hum yeah or I could directly launch a autohotkey script this way since it's a script language you can do anything with it
problem is : I would have to modify the registry entries pointing to vlc for video formats
might try to do that, I just hope there isn't 12334123 registry entries to modify

update:
there would be more than 400 registry entries to modify to let windows launch a script like .bat or autohotkey upon vlc launch
seems quite an impossible task unless there's some kind of find + replace for registry tool that I don't know about (amount of keys found with http://www.resplendence.com/registrar free edition )