Open latest workfile

[johhnry]

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Please describe the feature you have in mind and explain what the current shortcomings are?

It would be nice to open the latest workfile when launching 3DE from the Launcher.

How would you imagine the implementation of the feature?

Do the same as Maya, Houdini, Nuke etc...

Like in Maya, using the AYON_LAST_WORKFILE env variable:

https://github.com/ynput/ayon-maya/blob/265d1d8c38113043518cb5c0a1924dd5b3dca8de/client/ayon_maya/startup/userSetup.py#L41

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[BigRoy]

@johhnry Question - if you pass the filename as an argument to 3DE? Does it auto-open it?

If so, it'd be a matter of adding the 3d equalizer app group into this list in ayon-core: https://github.com/ynput/ayon-core/blob/develop/client/ayon_core/hooks/pre_add_last_workfile_arg.py#L16-L33

[johhnry]

@BigRoy 3DE has two options that we can use to specify the workfile to load:

• -open - open specified project file on startup. so we could do 3DE4.exe -open file.3de
• -run_script - run specified python script file on startup. and open the latest workfile with AYON_LAST_WORKFILE if it exists

[BigRoy]

I see - then we must add similar functionality as that hook in core, but add the hook here in ayon-equalizer because it'll be equalizer specific.

• https://github.com/ynput/ayon-equalizer/tree/develop/client/ayon_equalizer/hooks

And change the last line to:

        self.launch_context.launch_args.extend(["-open", last_workfile])

When copying the hook to this repo, make sure to give it a unique class name. Then test run it (you may need to restart the launcher)

[johhnry]

Nice, I'll do a PR then thanks for pointing me in the right direction!