RM command-line args

[Tsukihime]

Is it possible to read command-line args from within RM?

For example, I launch the tool as

game.exe myArg1

And I want to read this via ARGV or something

 

[ShadowLurk]

Reading from this old topic, it seems that we can't.

Edit: Just tested it, the script won't pick up the arguments.

 

[Tsukihime]

Hmm, that temp file seems like a good idea.


Just create a file with a custom launcher, have RM read it on start-up, and then delete the file when you're done with it.


We can make use of ENV["TEMP"].


This requires write-access.


What if we write the args in memory somewhere and then have RM pick it up from there.


Or, instead of command-line args, can we send data to RM via process-to-process techniques at run-time?

 

[Zalerinian]

You can through the Windows API. its GetCommandLine in the kernel, it'll return a string that has the full file path of the game exe in quotes, then any additional arguments after that, such as the test or debug arguments used by RM.

 

[Tsukihime]

Good find.

Basic solution, assuming no options:

# build our ARGVARGV = Win32API.new("Kernel32", "GetCommandLine", "", "P").call.split(" ")ARGV.shiftp ARGVThis isn't meant to be a opt parser of any sort. I just want to check if a certain argument exists. Someone can provide (or find) a proper opt parser if neededI put it in ARGV cause RM doesn't do it for us.

I've provided a utility script.

http://www.himeworks.com/2014/03/24/command-line-args-loader/

I just grabbed shell words to parse the arguments

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/shellwords/rdoc/Shellwords.html

Might extend the script to support flags as well to change the behavior of RM (via scripts)

For example, using this

http://trollop.rubyforge.org/