Make launch options longer

[Shingen]

Currently the launch options field for each game/program takes at maximum, it seems, 259 characterrs.
That's not enough for some cases, and i request for the limit to be increased up to for example 10 000 characters, which is nothing problematic to hold in memory, while giving people much more spare room to work with.

My current VRChat launch options are 254-characters-long, and i'm 'only':
- setting an exact window resolution for recording,
- removing fps limit,
- removing some devices from being treated as trackers for body tracking, like the Quest Pro controllers, and a playspace sync tracker on my head,
- turning on debugging logs.

now i wanted to add devices which represent my hands through SteamVRLink finger tracking, which seem to be 30- and 31-characters-long, and it obviously is too long for that field.


Also, as a side note, the way you handle going over the available length is simply atrocious.
Currently,
1. there's nothing stopping you from going over the limit by typing at the end, and you just end up having the excess silently removed at window close or some other action - it should stop you from typing in more character, or even better tell you that you're over the limit.
2.when you reach the length limit by typing something in the middle, you get your cursor teleported to the end and having last character removed which breaks your settings and you may not realize that (for example if the option simply goes from plural to singular form of a word by having removed the last 's').
3. if you paste something going over the limit anywhere in the settings, you end up having the excess removed at the end, which may destroy your settings completely, and your cursor gets moved to the end (like pt 2.), but then typing or pasting more doesn't give you any feedback that you're over the limit (like pt 1.)
4. when you alt-tab the cursor gets removed from the field entirely and you have to click it again and find the place you were typing in again - it should stay where it was.


Cheers

[Ettanin]

Try this perhaps:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/14v7fvh/code_line_to_run_a_bat_in_launch_options/jrbv8lq/

If you’re trying to have Steam launch a batch file before your game, you can do this:
1. Set the Steam launch options to be “C:\Path\to\batch.bat” %command%
2. The %command% at the end of the launch option will pass the game’s executable to your batch file as a parameter, which can be started from your batch file by using %1

then you can define as much launch parameters in that batch file as you want and launch the game from within the batch file.

[Shingen]

Messaggio originale di Ettanin:

Try this perhaps:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/14v7fvh/code_line_to_run_a_bat_in_launch_options/jrbv8lq/

If you’re trying to have Steam launch a batch file before your game, you can do this:
1. Set the Steam launch options to be “C:\Path\to\batch.bat” %command%
2. The %command% at the end of the launch option will pass the game’s executable to your batch file as a parameter, which can be started from your batch file by using %1

then you can define as much launch parameters in that batch file as you want and launch the game from within the batch file.

thanks for a possible workaround, but I still would like them to fix this half-baked feature. :)