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Plugin-autoreload

Thought I'd share this. Simple, trivial plugin but makes life easier while developing/debugging an SM plugin.

When the attached plugin is loaded, it creates a list of all files and timestamps in addons/sourcemod/plugins (ignoring if they are loaded or not) , excluding itself.
Every 2 seconds, it checks if one of the timestamps has changed and fires "sm plugins reload %s" on the respective plugin.

Re: Plugin-autoreload

That's a neat idea :)
I could imagine making an extension for this, to replace the timer with something that watches the folder and reloads plugins instantly :)
That should become part of sourcemod then.

Re: Plugin-autoreload

Nice work!
Thanks you.

Re: Plugin-autoreload

Wow, I wish I'd found this sooner :up:
+rep

Re: Plugin-autoreload

I recently started with SourcePawn and quickly found it annoying to compile, upload, and reload when debugging. Your plugin looks useful, but since it seems I'm not the only person who finds the process tedious I would like to share a small batch file I put together that makes my life so much easier.

You can just drag a .sp file ontop of this batch file and it will do the rest. However, I have Notepad++ with SourcePawn highlighting setup to run it when I hit Ctrl + F7. This makes debugging/testing painless.

It even has a bit of error checking so it stops the process if the plugin fails to compile which lets you see the error messages returned by the SourcePawn compiler.

You can get the clircon tool that is used to reload the plugin from this thread.

Code:

REM USEAGE <thisfile>.bat "Path\to\plugin.sp"



@echo off



REM START OF CONFIG



REM This is the path to the directory that contains spcomp.exe

set spcomppath="C:\path\to\spcomp\"



REM This is the FTP Address to connect to 

set ftpaddr=127.0.0.1



REM This is the FTP User to login as

set ftpuser=ftpuser



REM This is the password for the FTP user

set ftppass=ftppass



REM This is the path on the plugin should be uploaded to on the FTP

set ftppath="/path/to/sourcemod/plugins/"



REM This is the path to the directory that contains clircon.exe

set clirconpath="C:\path\to\clircon"



REM This is the address to the server you want to reload the plugin on

set rconaddr=127.0.0.1



REM This is the port for the server

set rconport=27015



REM This is the RCON password to use for the server

set rconpass=rconpass



REM END OF CONFIG



REM Compile the plugin

cd %spcomppath%

spcomp %1



REM If the plugin failed to compile skip the rest of the script and go to the final pause

if not exist %~n1.smx goto end



REM Create a file with a list of FTP commands

echo user %ftpuser%> ftpcmd.dat

echo %ftppass%>> ftpcmd.dat

echo cd %ftppath%>> ftpcmd.dat

echo bin>> ftpcmd.dat

echo put %~n1.smx>> ftpcmd.dat

echo quit>> ftpcmd.dat



REM Connect to the FTP server and execute the saved commands

ftp -n -s:ftpcmd.dat %ftpaddr%



REM Cleanup temporary FTP command file

del ftpcmd.dat



REM Cleanup compiled version of plugin

del %~n1.smx



REM Execute rcon commands to reload the plugin

REM I don't use reload here because it will not work if the plugin is not already load

cd %clirconpath%

clircon -P"%rconpass%" -a%rconaddr% -p%rconport% sm plugins unload %~n1

clircon -P"%rconpass%" -a%rconaddr% -p%rconport% sm plugins load %~n1



:end

REM Pause to read output

pause

Re: Plugin-autoreload

Quote:

Originally Posted by berni (Post 961440)

SM already does this onmapchange. Maybe you won't have to "reinvent the wheel" (get it? :P) after all.

Re: Plugin-autoreload

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Greg House (Post 2081149)

SM already does this onmapchange. Maybe you won't have to "reinvent the wheel" (get it? :P) after all.

This is a necropost, lol.
He is saying that when ever a plugin is edited and uploaded the extension will notice it and reload it instantly with out map change or putting in any commands.

Re: Plugin-autoreload

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mitchell (Post 2081167)

This is a necropost, lol.[...]

Oh dammit I didn't notice. -.-
I'm sorry.