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John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 1138

How to detect if a perforce session is opened?

I need to detect if a batch file has been executed from the local shell or by double-clicking within P4V. Is there a way I could check if P4V is open?

At first I thought to do it in this way, but as always, TIMTOWTDI. Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 385

Answers (1)

Samwise
Samwise

Reputation: 71454

Short answer: no, not really.

Long answer:

You can try to fake it, as you suggest, by checking for a running p4v.exe process. This will only tell you if P4V is open, though. If you had P4V open in another window, and you ran your batch file from a shell (e.g. double clicking in Explorer, or running it from a cmd prompt), you'll get a false positive.

Another approach you might take would be determining whether the script is within a Perforce client workspace. That could potentially be done by having the script run a "p4 where" on its own path to see if it's within the workspace -- but it depends on the script's executing environment having correct connection settings, which depends on the client machine being configured "nicely" (e.g. with P4CONFIG files and/or "p4 set", which are accessible to all Perforce client apps -- if you use P4V exclusively its connection settings won't be readily accessible to your script).

Upvotes: 1

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