Your fleet

Instances

Your game accounts, one emulator each. Add them, link them, start them, stop them and open them.

Where

Instances in the page list.

Use it to

Add, link, start, stop, order and delete instances, one at a time or many at once, and open one to work on it.

Two views

Cards for a quick look. Manager for a table with actions for many instances at once.

An instance is one game account on one emulator window. This page lists every instance on this PC. You can see the list as cards or as a table. Both show the same instances, in the order you choose.

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1. 1Keyboard shortcuts Opens the list of keys for this page.
2. 2Cards | Manager Switches between the card view and the table. Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2 do the same.
3. 3PC button Picks whose instances to show: this PC's, another PC's or all. Your PCs explains it.
4. 4Add instances Opens the sheet that creates instances. Ctrl+N does the same.
5. 5New Instance Opens the same sheet from the end of the card list.

Cards

Each card is one instance. Click anywhere on a card, except on a button, to open that instance. Right-click it for Open or Show in Manager. A long name is cut short: hover to read all of it.

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1. 1Ready Stopped, and its emulator answers. Start is available.
2. 2Offline Stopped, and nothing answers at its address. Start is greyed out until the emulator is open.
3. 3No emulator No emulator address is set, so there is no Start button. Link an emulator.
4. 4In use Another instance is running on the same emulator. Stop that one first.
5. 5Needs setup Evonex refused to start it because something is missing. The line says what.
6. 6Error The last run stopped on an error. The line gives the reason.

• Start on a card starts that instance at once, without opening it. While it runs, the same button reads Stop. If something is missing, a window called Needs setup says what, and the card turns orange.
• Open → opens the instance, the same as clicking the card.
• The trash button, Delete instance, asks before it deletes anything.
• Cards stand in your order. Change it in the Manager.

What the status words mean

Add instances

Press Add instances, press Ctrl+N, or click the New Instance tile. A sheet opens where you say how many instances to make, what to call them and which emulators they use. You can add up to 200 at once. Nothing is created until you press the Create button, and nothing starts. Create your first instance goes through the sheet step by step.

The Manager

Manager shows the same instances in a table, with tools that work on many at once. Switch with Cards | Manager, or press Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2. Evonex remembers the view you used last.

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1. 1Filter chips Show only the instances in one state. Each chip shows how many.
2. 2Filter Type part of a name, or a word like status:running or unlinked, to narrow the table.
3. 3Link emulators Pairs each instance with its emulator, so Start can open it for you.
4. 4Batch start · off Sets whether several instances start together or a few at a time.
5. 5A row One instance. Tick its box to select it. Press Enter on it to open it.
6. 6Profile Shows the profile this instance follows. Profiles explains them.
7. 7City map Shows the map the instance uses. Choose… means two maps exist on its emulator. Click it and pick one.
8. 8Emulator Shows which emulator window the instance uses, and whether it is running.
9. 9Selection bar Appears when rows are selected. Start, stop, link, rename or delete them all at once.

Show only what you need

The chips above the table are shortcuts for the filter. A chip appears only when it counts something. All, Running, Idle and Stopped are always there.

Two more chips show up when they are useful. Attach N detected emulators links, in one click, emulators that already answer at the address an instance has. You can undo it. N need a city map opens one window where you give those instances a map.

The Filter box narrows the table as you type. Plain words are looked for in names, addresses, emulators and city maps. You can also type these words:

• status:running, status:starting, status:waiting, status:idle, status:stopped, status:error, status:ready or status:offline
• city:none for instances with no map, and city:problem for a map that needs a choice or is missing
• linked and unlinked, and problems

What each column shows

The row menu holds: Open, Start or Stop, Move to this PC, Move to, Edit port…, Emulator…, Profile…, City map…, Move to top, Move up, Move down, Move to bottom and Delete instance…. Drag a column header to move that column.

Put the instances in your order

Rows, cards and the Dashboard all stand in the order you choose. Drag a row by the grip at its left, or use Move to top, Move up, Move down and Move to bottom in the row menu. The keys Alt+Home, Alt+↑, Alt+↓ and Alt+End do the same. A new instance goes below the ones you have placed.

Click a column header to sort by it. Click again to reverse it, and a third time to go back to your order. You can still drag rows while a column is sorted: the sort clears and your order takes over. Your order only decides how Evonex lists your instances, and which ones start first when you use Batch start.

Work on many at once

Select rows with their tick boxes, or click a row and use Shift or Ctrl to add more. Ctrl+A selects every visible row. A bar appears with the number selected, for example 6 selected · 4 running.

The table also works a little like a spreadsheet. F2 edits the focused cell. Ctrl+D fills that cell's value down the selection. Ctrl+V pastes a list into the focused column, from top to bottom. Ctrl+C copies the selection's ports as addresses.

Link emulators

An instance has to know which emulator window is its own. Linking pairs the two. Once an instance is linked, Start opens its emulator for you if it is closed, and Evonex finds the emulator again at every Start, even if its port has changed. A linked emulator that closes during a run is opened again, at most twice an hour.

1. Open the Manager.
2. Tick the instances you want to link. Tick none to work on all of them.
3. Press Link emulators, or Ctrl+L.
4. Look at the emulator picked for each instance. The last column says why: Address (it already answers at the instance's address), Name (the names are alike) or Order (a guess).
5. Press Link N emulators. Linking starts nothing: a closed emulator opens when you press Start.

• Evonex ticks the Address and Name suggestions for you. It does not tick the Order guesses. Check them, then press Tick all suggestions.
• A red conflict means two instances want the same emulator. Tick the right one.
• Two instances can share one emulator. The row warns you that only one of them can run at a time.
• An instance that is running is skipped.
• Running MuMu and BlueStacks together often stops one from starting. Evonex warns you when a link would mix two emulator apps.
• If Evonex cannot find your emulator app, open Add an emulator from its shortcut in that window and drop the emulator's shortcut on it. Evonex reads the shortcut. It never runs it.

To link just one instance, open its row menu and choose Emulator…, or double-click its Emulator cell.

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1. 1Emulator list Lists the emulators on this PC. A tag says which one is linked to this instance, and which are shared or in use by another instance.
2. 2Shortcut box Paste an emulator shortcut's target, or drop the shortcut here, if your emulator is not listed.
3. 3Boot on Start On for every link. Start then opens the emulator if it is closed. Off means Evonex only connects to an emulator you opened yourself.
4. 4Start emulator now Opens the emulator without starting the instance.
5. 5Unlink Forgets the emulator and its port for this instance.

Batch start

Starting twenty instances at once opens twenty emulators and loads twenty games in the same few minutes. That can slow a PC to a crawl. Batch start starts several instances in batches instead: a few first, and the next few once those are in the game.

Press Batch start · off in the Manager, to the right of Link emulators. Once it is on, the button reads Batch start · 4 at a time. A small window opens, titled When you start several instances at once. Every change saves at once, and the settings belong to this PC.

The window draws the batches for your selection, so you can see when the last one starts. Batches go in your order: drag a row up to start it sooner.

While batches run, a strip above the instances reads STARTING IN BATCHES, with the batch number and a countdown. Its buttons are Start next now, Pause (then Resume) and Cancel the rest. An instance waiting for its batch reads Waiting for batch 3 in the Manager and Waiting · batch 3 on its card and on the Dashboard.

• Batch start applies when you start several rows at once in the Manager. One instance on its own always starts at once: a card's Start, the Dashboard's Start, or the Start inside an instance.
• Pressing Start or Stop on a waiting instance takes it out of the line. Start starts it right away.
• The Dashboard's Stop all also cancels the line.
• Nothing survives a restart. If you close Evonex, instances that were still waiting are dropped.

Keyboard shortcuts

Press the small keyboard button beside the page title to see every key for this page. Keys wait while you type in a box. None of them is a single letter.

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1. 1Ctrl+1 / Ctrl+2 Switches between Cards and Manager.
2. 2Ctrl+Enter Starts the selected instances. Add Shift to stop them.
3. 3Esc Backs out one step at a time: it closes a popover, then cancels a drag, then clears the selection, then clears the filter.

Delete an instance

Press the trash button on a card, choose Delete instance… in a row's menu, or press Delete… on the selection bar. Evonex asks first. A running instance is stopped before it is deleted.

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