Notify gmod of file change

[UltraBlackLinux]

Hey there,
It turns out, that gmod can load lua files, that changed by observing the filesystem events, in this case the save-file event (no clue, how it's called)

I would be really pleased, if this addon could somehow call that event, so gmod recognizes the change and doesn't force me to always reload the map when I make changes ;)
Thanks!

[BadgerCode]

Hey!
Yeah I've always wanted changes made to my projects to automatically refresh/update in-game.

The way I've gotten this to work is using symbolic links (../garrysmod/addons/myaddon -> ../My Projects/gmod/myaddon).
This allows me to keep my projects in a more convenient location, while also having the files available to garry's mod.

But this isn't very user friendly and it's quite manual.

I would like to make this VS Code extension take care of this.
I've considered a few approaches (synchronising files, symbolic links, publish button, ...) but I need to spend some time actually trying something out.

[UltraBlackLinux]

@BadgerCode Yeah I attempted that too, but I was somewhat unsuccessful at linking that. I might try again, but ln just created an invalid link file. Might be related to the fact that it's on a different drive...

[BadgerCode]

Here's an example of making a symbolic link on PC in command prompt

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons\myaddon" "C:\Users\mike-\Documents\Projects\gmod\myaddon"

This should work for other drives too

[UltraBlackLinux]

Here's an example of making a symbolic link on PC in command prompt

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons\myaddon" "C:\Users\mike-\Documents\Projects\gmod\myaddon"

This should work for other drives too

I got it to work in the end, and btw, I am on Linux ;)
Seems like I just managed to mess it up the first time, I have no clue how

[BadgerCode]

Yeah it's easy enough to mess up making a symbolic link.
More reason why this extension should take care of it!