Posted: 8/7/2020 6:24 PM
Post subject: Start Bizhawk with specified external program
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couchpotator
Joined: 8/7/2020
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Is there a way to start Bizhawk and have it automatically enable an "external program"? I'm trying to develop a tool, and it's annoying having to start Bizhawk, navigate to the "Tool" menu, choose "External Tool", then select my tool every time I want to test. This process usually takes longer than what I'm testing. There doesn't appear to be any command line options for this, nor can I see anyway to use a config file. Any ideas?
Posted: 8/7/2020 11:34 PM
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Patashu
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Any chance you could use an AHK macro to automate the inputs of starting Bizhawk and selecting the External Tool?
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Posted: 8/7/2020 11:42 PM
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I think that's a pretty hacky method of getting it to work. Preferably, this would be built into BizHawk in some manner. BizHawk already has similar functionality for loading games and Lua scripts, so it should definitely be implemented for external tools. Especially since external tools are intended to be a more powerful and robust alternative to Lua scripts.
Posted: 9/5/2020 7:37 AM
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Are you the one who asked for this on Discord? Regardless, I added this feature in e128cb82f (it's in 2.5)—run EmuHawk with --open-ext-tool-dll=MyTool to load ExternalTools/MyTool.dll. You can also use absolute paths. edit: also hmu if you make a cool ext. tool, trying to collect them
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