Actions: Option to run actions at startup

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

One thing I come across very often when writing scripts for users of Reaper, is that the script I wrote might be needed to run in the background.
Usually I tell people to bind them to a shortcut to run it when needed.

However, very often, people don't want to run the background script via shortcut but rather at startup.

And now, things very often become difficult, mostly for inexperienced users, because they either need to have programming experience(__startup.lua) or they need to setup a glpbal startup action(SWS).

The former is quite flexible but needs coding skills.

The latter is easier to use but only accepts one startup action, so I need to explain how to make a custom action that combines all actions run at startup and then how to add it to the global startup action and maybe even, hpw to download SWS in the process, but only the pre-release version which is more compatible and.... I lost the person completely because it's too difficult too.

So, I would like to ask for an option to run an action at startup.
Means: rightclick on action, select "run at startup" and now the action is run at startup automatically.
No dependencies, no other setup, no programming skills required.
This would make it much much easier for inexperienced users to setup an action at startup and much easier for us scripters to explain how to do it.

[sockmonkey72]

I guess I don't see what the advantage is over those other mechanisms, and two downsides, well three. First, order will be indeterminate, which might be a problem; second, it's invisible, so you don't have any overview of what's enabled and what isn't; finally, it's already confusing to have SWS and built-in stuff via __startup.lua. A third mechanism is kind of overkill for such a simple task.

A better option (IMO) is for someone to write a UI for generating/modifying the __startup.lua scripts, with some kind of table where you can pick scripts from the action list, order them and refer to the list whenever you want and see exactly what's going on.

I don't know what else people put in their __startup.lua apart from Main_OnCommand() though. I suppose that this notional script could be smart enough to ignore/cache/replace any lines it doesn't recognize.

[sockmonkey72]

Something like this:

[Rodulf]

Originally Posted by sockmonkey72

Something like this:

That works great! Thank you!