Godot: Add an option to open files with exported games

[MattUV]

Feature request

OS I use : Windows 10
Hello,
When you export a game, you cannot open files with it

When you use a file path as an argument, godot tries to load the file, and if it is not a *.tscn or a "project.godot", it throws this error

ERROR: No loader found for resource: C:/Users/matth/Documents/Anglais/file.txt
   At: core/io/resource_loader.cpp:186

Then it quits without even loading the code

The problem is that Godot has an API to be used by command line

Usage: C:\Users\matth\Documents\Anglais\Cloze 0.2.exe [options] [path to scene or 'project.godot' file]

That is convenient to be used in the editor, but not so much for an exported project...
As the program closes, you don't have the opportunity to use OS.get_cmdline_args()

I think it might be a good thing to be able to override a little bit the command line API for exported projects.

[Zylann]

I think you can workaround this by specifying arguments with something like key=value but I can't find the doc for that...

Also this makes me wonder if that would not be a security hole? Like, take any game built with Godot, put a TSCN you made yourself next to it, call the executable of the game with that argument, and poof you can mine it and hack it with your own code.

[MattUV]

Well, you can indeed send arguments to the game with the command line or by making a link (on windows at least).
You can get them by code with OS.get_cmdline_args()

Sadly this is not user-friendly...

[Calinou]

This issue seems to be a duplicate of #8721 (the underlying cause is the same), so I'll close this one. Thanks for reporting it :slightly_smiling_face: