Passing arguments ZGE Application

[Lupo]

Hi all,

(Trying to get back to dev...)

Is it possible to pass arguments to an Zge generated aplication?
(Is it available on all platforms?)

Thanks,
Luis.

[Kjell]

Hi Lupo,

Is it possible to pass arguments to an Zge generated aplication?

There's currently no property / functionality built-in to determine which arguments have been passed when executing a standalone. However, it's pretty simple to pull off yourself. Here's a example for Windows ( attached is a build + batch + shortcut for C:\Test.exe ).

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor application" NoSound="1">
  <OnLoaded>
    <ZExternalLibrary ModuleName="kernel32" Source="string GetCommandLineA(){}"/>
    <ZExpression Expression="Foo.Text = GetCommandLineA();"/>
  </OnLoaded>
  <OnRender>
    <RenderText Name="Foo" Scale="0.25" StretchY="2"/>
  </OnRender>
</ZApplication>

Is it available on all platforms?

Not exactly sure what the functions are called on Linux / OS X, but i'm sure each platform has its own equivalent.

Would be nice if a cross-platform solution gets built-in though

K

[Imerion]

How would I go about to extract data from two different passed arguments into two strings?

The data I get comes in this form : gjapi_username=NAME gjapi_token=TOKEN

And I need to have NAME in one string and TOKEN in another.

[Imerion]

Maybe I solved it.

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string InputString = GetCommandLineA();

int FindUser = indexOf("name=", InputString, 0);
int FindUserEnd = indexOf("gjapi_token", InputString, 0);

FindUser += 5;
FindUserEnd -= 1;

UserName = subStr(InputString, FindUser, FindUserEnd - FindUser);


int FindToken = indexOf("token=", InputString, 0);
int FindTokenEnd = length(InputString);

FindToken += 6;

UserToken = subStr(InputString, FindUser, FindTokenEnd - FindToken);