#20 Program Functions

[Yacoby]

The first two functions are obvious as to what they do

xProgramRunning

xStartProgram

xAddToCloseList

This will close the specified program when Morrowind is shutdown

The bonus of these functions is that it allows people to write custom programs for Morrowind that can be easily intergrated into mods.

E.G. Fliggs and my real time updating mod would go well with these functions because then the user wouldn't have to start the external program, it could be done within the script.

The drawback is that you could write a mod that would do a huge amount of harm, without the users knowledge. (The user wouldn't notice the exe starting)

It may require some though as to how to get around this problem. Maybe requiring the user to "allow" a certain program to run. This could be done through the GUI.

It would be fairly easy to get the list of programs that need to be allowed/disallowed if you required all programs to be in a certain folder relative to the Morrowind installation.

[Yacoby]

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Maybe I should have put
xIsProgramRunning

rather than
xProgramRunning

it makes it a bit more obvious