API:set_action_options value to cancel new instance [IMPLEMENTED 7.31]

[mpl]

Full request sounds like this: add a possibility to use set_action_options API function for NOT terminating already running script and auto-cancel launching new instance.


When we run background script, there are three options:

- terminate instance (set_action_options flag&1 and flag1|2 to terminate and re-launch)
- new instance. This option not available to set via API.
- cancel. This option not available to set via API.

I`m interested in third option. Why?
I`m making a visual notification script with ReaImGui. If I set flag = 1|2, it stops already running script, so all the UI are switched off, the it runs again. This makes notification flickering at the moment of script termination and re-launching again, if the user triggers script multiple times a second. So ReaImGui lost frame at the moment of terminating/relaunching step.

EDIT: see mpl_NOtification.lua - https://github.com/MichaelPilyavskiy...tification.lua

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

+1

[Justin]

Hmm if we had the option for scripts to completely ignore re-execute, then there would be no way for the user to terminate a misbehaving script. hmmmmm.

edit: ah, pointed out to me the action to close all reascripts would still work. ok.

[mpl]

thanks!

(implemented in 7.31 rc1)

[heda]

I wonder if there is a way to do this:

if previous instance of the plugin is running, and docked and script tab is the active tab in the dock: terminate script instance and terminate previous running instance.
and
if previous instance of the plugin is running, and docked and script tab is NOT the active tab in the dock: cancel the new instance and set the previous running instance tab active

this is how the mixer or other REAPER windows do. ie: if I have multiple windows docked at the bottom, and the mixer is there, but not the active tab, if I run the action to show the mixer, it changes the active tab to the mixer. if the active tab is the mixer already, it closes the mixer.

[nvk]

Could we please get an option to set 'new instance' via the api? It's useful for scripts that take a while to load since you can keep them running in the background and then reactivate them with a new instance that just tells the script to reload if it's already open.

[odedd]

Originally Posted by nvk

Could we please get an option to set 'new instance' via the api? It's useful for scripts that take a while to load since you can keep them running in the background and then reactivate them with a new instance that just tells the script to reload if it's already open.

+1 for that please.

Thank you!

[nvk]

Originally Posted by odedd

+1 for that please.

Thank you!

Maybe we need to make a new thread for this, since this one is labeled as IMPLEMENTED

[odedd]

Originally Posted by nvk

Maybe we need to make a new thread for this, since this one is labeled as IMPLEMENTED

I actually did it already a couple days ago here for the same reason