AutoExec script - from command line or elsewhere

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Is there any way to start EA and get it to execute a pre-defined script?
I'd like to be able to nominate the script, but I'll settle for Autoexec if available.

From what I can see, there's no way to run a script through the API either.  Is that the case?

TIA,
Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

Hi Paolo,

There's indeed no operation in the API to run a script, but it can be done.

With my EA-Matic I'm doing it.
All of script handling is coded in the EA Add-in Framework, most of it in the class Script

With the EA-Matic add-in you can attach scripts to API events such as EA_FileOpen. Those scripts will then be executed just like an add-in operation would.

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Paolo,

There's indeed no operation in the API to run a script, but it can be done.

With my EA-Matic I'm doing it.
All of script handling is coded in the EA Add-in Framework, most of it in the class Script

With the EA-Matic add-in you can attach scripts to API events such as EA_FileOpen. Those scripts will then be executed just like an add-in operation would.

Geert

Cool, I'll see if my management is happy with that.

Can I interrogate the command line args with EA-Matic?  Then I could get EA to execute a specific script (or not) on file open from the command line.

Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

Can I interrogate the command line args with EA-Matic?  Then I could get EA to execute a specific script (or not) on file open from the command line.

Not with something specific to EA-Matic. Do you know if those command line args are available to an add-in?
If they are you might be able to get to them from within a script as well.

Geert