[yzeyze]

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@yzeyze :

I had a look in the source code, and can see where to do this, but when I try to compile with AutoHotKey, I keep getting a problem on line 26 with the #warn variable. (this is without making changes to the .ahk file) (XBMCLauncher.ahk file that is).
Do I need to do more than just compile the ahk file with autohotkey?

Thanks for trying the source code. I hope it was easy for you to understand the code logic. I have commented most of the code. Use Autohotkey_L or delete the #warn line.

one thing I would like is for it not to close XBMC on sleep and fire it up again.

I added this option because when xbmc resumes from hibernation or sleep, it fails to find my hdmi audio and i need to close xbmc and start it again. I will add an option to disable this as per user choice.
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Yes it was thanks.
My problem was using Autohotkey, not Autohotkey_L (I saw that in the readme, but thought it was a typo - did not know another version was available)
All working now. - I just commented out the 'going to sleep' section, but left in the 'wake up' section - this means that it stays where I was, but if for some reason XBMC was dead either going into or out of sleep, it fires back up again.
Thanks again - handy utility