Running scripts from folder?

[Vic]

Is it possible to run scripts from a folder? In OFP you could create a folder called "scripts" and you could run the scripts in there from any mission. I don't want to run them from a PBO or a mission folder, since I'd like to dynamically write those scripts using an external program.

[tcp]

From the BIKI on execVM:
The Script is first searched for in the mission folder, then in the campaign scripts folder and finally in the global scripts folder.

I haven't tried this but I think the global scripts folder is referring to your Addons folder. So any script that is within a .pbo that is loaded could be executed. I assume that includes ones you load via modfolders. There might be a way to predefine functions linking to a script in a specific location, but I think the usual way would to treat the pbo as a folder. So a script.sqf inside myscripts.pbo would be called by execVM "myscripts\script.sqf";

Sorry for sound so vague, but I've never had to try it.

[Vic]

Thanks, figured it out after a couple attempts.

[] exec "\myscripts\test.sqs" - where myscripts is a folder in the root ArmA dir

[tcp]

cool, it's good that its a folder so its easier to modify

[MRO204]

you can also

[] exec "C:\MyDocuments\myscripts\test.sqs"

as an example.

[i0n0s]

No, you can't this is fixed with a patch.