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Hi,

how can I create a custom button that will open a specific file (i.e. I have a file which is a template, layers and all, and I want to open it again and again without navigating to it every time)?

Cheers

Create a button in custom panel (with "Add Action").

Create a "Type Script's Command" action in the "None" popup.

In the small popup window, type "tv_loadproject whereeveryourfileis".

Choose an icon for your button and there you go !

cheers ematecki,
but it's not working for me. The command line seem not to create any response. I tried putting the full path including the name of the file, and I've tried with just the path (hoping it would bring up a file requester). but none seem to do it.

Hi,

you must put the file name between double quotes (") if it contains spaces.
You should preferably use the full path name, with a drive letter.
While TVPA does its best to find a file without path, it can't check on the whole drive, that would take too much time, it will just check in a few directories "know to him".

Don't put quotes around the whole command.
It should read :

tv_loadproject "C:/the/path/to/the/file.tvp"

Oh, one last thing, use '/' instead of '\', that's much friendlier to scripting
languages which uses '\' to 'escape' some special characters.

EM.

Works perfect!
Thanks for the elaborate reply, Eric.

A.