Project root shortcut for command

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Is there a way to get the base directory of the project when creating a command? I know about the %p and %P interpolation shortcuts, but those only give me paths for the project file itself. I want the “project base directory” defined in the project properties. Is there some shortcut that will get me that or am I gonna have to write a macro? (Note: Because of some quirks with how our development environment is set up, I don’t really want to put the Komodo project files in the same directory as my source.)

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There is no shortcut to get Komdo project base directory so you must write your own macro.

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I was under the impression that %p did this, but as you said it gives the directory that the project file is in. I’ll see about adding the project base directory as a variable.

You can get the base directory in a macro like this:

var partSvc   = Cc["@activestate.com/koPartService;1"].getService(Ci.koIPartService);
var baseDir = partSvc.currentProject.liveDirectory;

Then you can run a command from the macro with this API: http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/8.5/komodo-js-api.html#ko.run

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Thanks guys! I was hoping I’d missed something in the docs, but apparently not.

At any rate, with the pointer to the docs I was able to bang out a macro for it without too much trouble. It would still be nice to have that as a variable when creating commands, though. The documentation for ko.run is a bit…sparse. It was fairly straight forward once I looked up the source for ko.run.runCommand(), but that really shouldn’t be necessary.

But anyway, problem solved. Thanks again!

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Yep we’re aware, a complete documentation overhaul is in the works as well as an easier to use SDK.

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Thanks for the comments - Komodo 9 will include a new interpolation shortcut for the project base directory.

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