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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Is there no way to execute a file yet in AGK or V2?

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DVader
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2014 22:28
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I simply want to be able to open two folders in an actual explorer window. I've searched and there seems no way to do this. Am I missing something or is it not possible to implement? If not it makes some apps difficult to use.

Surely this should be easy enough to add?


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Posted: 3rd Oct 2014 23:36
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It's not possible at the moment. It would have to be a Raw command if they added it, launching other executables would fail validation on mobile app stores.

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DVader
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That would be fine. As the app is not intended for anything beyond a PC.


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agk not support windows api from tier1 basic, but from tier2 you can use.

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The only hackish and completely unreliable method currently for opening external folders would be by exploiting the OpenBrowser() command, i.e.

OpenBrowser("file:///" + GetWritePath())

But this is dependent on browser and security settings to work right. Works fine on Windows 8 and Mac w/ Chrome as the default browser, but other browsers like Firefox restrict local access so it doesn't work right.

Having a shell execution command for PC would be valuable indeed.
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JimHawkins
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It would be very easy to add to T1 for Windows. There's a choice of using ShellExecute() or CreateProcess(). The same is probably true for OS X, but I have no experience on that subject.

It's possible on Android using fork or exec - but massively frowned on because it can confuse the process manager. Calling into shared processes which are part of the core is fine.

Totally forbidden on iOS.

So a lot depends upon what you want to do. Which is what?

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thats o good start for a PC plugin.
how about using the #include command or new one for this?
#include "myapi.dll"?

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Posted: 5th Oct 2014 16:36 Edited at: 5th Oct 2014 16:37
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I'm strictly tier 1 only. I've toyed with the idea of trying to learn c++, but finding the time, when I can generally do what I want in Basic is hard. I do wonder what, if any extra speed you get when using c++ though. Has anyone done comparisons of how it compares?

I tried using the browser command as a temporary solution before posting here, but it didn't work with my default browser.

The app I want this to work on is a file conversion app for Reloaded FPE files I have made. I want to make it easy to find the source and destination folders in the app. At the moment you have to manually go find the folders, copy in the files etc. Far better to have a button to open each directory automatically.

I did consider using DB for this originally. I may have to convert it if I want this feature any time soon I imagine. I would prefer to stick with this though, as I am sure AppGameKit has a better turn of speed, and obviously if you are converting many files, speed helps. Although I don't think DB would be far behind in all honesty.


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Personally I wouldn't use AppGameKit for doing this stuff at all. It's not designed for tools.

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It's not so hard to add a command into the interpreter that gets fired off when for example a sprite with a particular ID has a colour value changed. Paul added a few tests in for commands in progress while I was working for TGC. Might be worth getting an example of how to do something like this to show how to easily add something to the Tier 1 interpreter for those willing to experiment.
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