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Bob B

01 Feb, 2025 07:28 PM

I'm writing and testing an extension, when debugging I would like to run the extension as soon aş the app starts from the Intellij debug mode. I found this paramter

-invoke=QuickenConverter

(QuickenConverter is the name of my extension) that seems like it should do the trick but it doesn't seem to do anything. There's probably a trick to this that I haven't learned yet. If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it.

1. 1 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 01 Feb, 2025 10:38 PM

   

   A couple of questions...

   1. The extension will be automatically installed when MD starts anyway and it's init/initialise method called... You could jump off that.. OR, do you want it to wait for an invoke() or handleEvent() call? if so, then....:

   2. you need to execute MD like this:
      

      -invoke=moneydance:fmodule:quickenconverter:yourparameterhere
      

      (note: the extension ID should be defined and called in lowercase.

   Then either handleEvent() or invoke() should get called (I can't remember which)..

   You will need to check that the dataset is loaded and the GUI loaded before doing anything.. It's typical for an extension to 'idle' until a AppEventManager.FILE_OPENED event is received...

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2. 2 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 01 Feb, 2025 10:42 PM

   

   ... you will have to play with this and ensure that the system is in the right state when the extension is invoked...

   There is also a
   

   -invoke_and_quit=
   

   parameter too, but again, this is quit fiddly to get right...

   If you dataset has a password, you can set the environment variable:
   

   md_passphrase=yourpassword
   

   before launching MD

   The other useful parameters are:

   useyourdatasetname

   before any other options/parameters and

   -nobackup
   

   to not backup when MD quits.

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3. 3 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 08 Feb, 2025 04:48 PM

   

   Did any of these parameters help?

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