Launching external app from add-on

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mcow
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Launching external app from add-on

Post by mcow »

A very long time ago I wrote an MM4 add-on for a remote control webserver in Python. The installed piece was just a VB script that launched Python in the background; the Python managed everything via the COM interface.

For a number of reasons this was on the back burner for years, but recently with (a lot of) help from Claude I've ported this to the MM5 framework: server still running in Python but interacting with MediaMonkey via HTTP to the Media Sharing port and a JS add-on providing the same features I once exploited in COM.

Is there a similar capability in MM2024 to launch the Python server app when MediaMonkey starts?

Tangential question: in the add-on manifest, what value should I use for "minAppVersion"for MM2024? Any plans to update https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index. ... d_Post_5.0 for changes since 2022?