environment vars

[pawl]

Is it possible to access user environment variables from an avisynth script? I know I could do some sort of replace with a batch file, but I'd prefer not to..

Thanks!

[esby]

You mean accessing the window environment variables?
Or accessing what is stored in the avs environnment (aka env)

esby

[pawl]

Yeah, the windows environment variables. :)

[stickboy]

I don't think there currently is a way.

I think it should be pretty trivial to write a plug-in that can retrieve values of environment variables, though. I can give it a shot tomorrow unless someone else feels like doing it (and probably doing it better). :)

[stickboy]

Okay, try this: GetSystemEnv (http://www.avisynth.org/stickboy/GetSystemEnv.zip)

Edit:
Renamed from GetEnv by request. :)

[esby]

Wouldn't it better to rename it to GetWinEnv instead of GetEnv
as there is already an internal env context in avisynth?
This could avoid confusion.

esby

[stickboy]

Maybe... but the other environment isn't (and probably should never need to be) accessible via user scripts.

And I know that AviSynth is pretty Windows-specific, but I'd prefer to avoid using a Windows-specific name (especially since it's just a pass-through to getenv() from the C standard library).

Maybe GetOSEnv or GetSystemEnv or something?

[esby]

Oh right,
getSystemEnv() might work

esby

[pawl]

Awesome! Much thanks! :D

[pawl]

Any good reason these functions aren't in the core?

[stickboy]

No one requested them before. :)

I don't have CVS access, but if someone who does thinks they're appropriate, they're more than welcome to merge those functions in (the code's pretty trivial anyway).

[DigitAl56K]

Bump up and vote +1 for adding to the core :)