MacroQuest64

MQ2Login (navigating the MQ2 system tray icon and loading a profile) is one of my favorite features. I know I can setup MQ2AutoLogin.ini for command type login, but I have a suggestion.

What about a command line argument to MQ2 to do something similar. For example macroquest2.exe <PROFILE> where <PROFILE> is one of the profiles you created in the MQ2 gui. Supplying the profile name at MQ2 startup would command MQ2 to execute a Load ALL of that profile versus having to either create an MQ2AutoLogin.ini setup or having to navigate the MQ2 gui.

Could this be added easily to MQ2 as a command line startup option?

There is a way to do what you want using MQ2AutoLogin.

You start the EQ client and pass in your login information

Check the change log for /login

Added the possibility to login new characters using plaintext credentials, no mq2 login profile needed:
Usage:
/loginchar servername^login^charname^password
AND if you want to stop at charselect don't specify charname:
/loginchar servername^login^password

Thanks dewey2461, I will look into that.

My suggested, however, was to simply utilize the profiles we might already create within the GUI of MQ2. I don't know about others, but I love that feature and have created a number of profiles depending on what I want to do. I thought it would be a fairly straight forward addition to have the option to pass a Profile name to MQ2 at launch, so no need to build something in MQ2AutoLogin.

I'm failing to see the difference.

If you are in game you can run /login server:name and it will spawn a new client and load that.

If you are not in game then you start the game client and pass in the a command line argument /login server:name

Both of these use the profiles you have specified by the GUI. They just happen to look for the first match.

Its possible that the login command allows profiles to be specified

I am just looking to pass an MQ2Login Profile name to MQ2 as a command line option, not an individual account/character. I don't know how others have created MQ2Login profiles, but I have several that span many accounts. I organize Profiles depending on what I need to do, assigning usually many characters to a particular Profile. So I thought, I've already created all these Profiles, why not also be able to utilize them from the Windows command line when starting MQ2.

Just like when a person selects a Profile then Load All in the MQ2 GUI, I just wished we could pass a Profile name to MQ2 as a command line option. I had hoped it was a simple addition.