[aron9forever]

This is sort of a problem I'm facing. I want to make sure that a plugin can not be run twice concomitantly.

How would I do this? Can I make the plugin create a variable or something, and check in plugin_init if that variable exists or not? If exists then set fail state?

[FromTheFuture]

see xvars

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by FromTheFuture see xvars

thanks bruh

edit::
I tried doing it like this, but both plugins still run.

PHP Code:

public iamrunning
public plugin_init()
{
    new g_piamrunning = get_xvar_id( "iamrunning" );
    // check if the XVar is valid
    if( g_piamrunning == 1 )
    {
        set_fail_state( "There is an instance of this plugin already running!" );
    }
    else
    {
        iamrunning=1
    
} 


[fysiks]

How are you getting it to run twice? Do they have different names?

It might be something you have to leave to the end-user.

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by fysiks How are you getting it to run twice? Do they have different names? It might be something you have to leave to the end-user.

yes, renaming binary and writing both inside plugins.ini

the thing is I would like to leave it up to the user but the truth is many of them are too dumb to do it by themselves

the plugin that needs this addition must be on top of the plugins.ini list to avoid conflicts
because of so many people contacting me with problems then figuring out "they thought that meant on top but under the default plugins" and other crap like that, I made the plugin place itself on top automatically.

Now I need to deal with people who renamed the binary, since the script I wrote to place itself on top only removes the default name from the list, after placing itself on 1st line



If this can not be done, then I will just leave it as is, but I think this should work with simple cvars instead of xvars.

Can you please tell me what happens when you try to get the value of a cvar that does not exist? Or is there a way to check if a cvar is registered?
I'm thinking of doing this inside plugin_init():
check cvar,
if it exists then set fail state
else register cvar

[fysiks]

You can check for the existence of a cvar with get_cvar_pointer(). If non-zero, it exists.

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by fysiks You can check for the existence of a cvar with get_cvar_pointer(). If non-zero, it exists.

so it's working properly but now I ran into another issue (this is funny as hell)
it seems that calling set_fail_state from plugin #2 will stop both #2 and #1 since they're the same plugin

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by aron9forever so it's working properly but now I ran into another issue (this is funny as hell) it seems that calling set_fail_state from plugin #2 will stop both #2 and #1 since they're the same plugin

Interesting.

[aron9forever]

Originally Posted by fysiks Interesting.

can a plugin somehow get it's own filename?

[FromTheFuture]

Has cvar_exists native, try it.