Jass Hot Code Reload

Wurst has integrated support for JHCR to reload code while the map is running. This allows you to iterate quickly, because it is not necessary to test the map from the beginning after every code change.

Installation

If you have not installed Wurst and Visual Studio Code yet, you should first check out the Setup Guide.

Then to setup JHCR:

1. Download JHCR and extract it to a folder on your machine.
2. Open the Visual Studio Code Settings and change the entry for wurst.jhcrExe to the jhcr executable you extracted in step 1. For example C:\apps\jhcr.exe.

3. Configure the Visual Studio Code Setting wurst.customMapDataPath to point to the path where Warcraft stores custom map data.

   This is usually something like

   C:\\Users\\YourName\\Documents\\Warcraft III\\CustomMapData

   or

   C:\\Users\\YourName\\OneDrive\\Dokumente\\Warcraft III\\CustomMapData

   This path will be passed to the --preload-path option of Jass Hot Code Reload (JHCR). If you do not specify this path, Wurst will try to detect the correct folder.

Usage

To use Hot Code Reload, simply run your map using your map with the wurst.hotstartmap command:

• Press F1
• Search for wurst: Hot Run a Wurst map with Jass Hot Code Reload (JHCR) and hit Enter
• Select the map to run and press Enter

After Warcraft has started you can edit your code and when you want to load your changes into the running WC3 instance you simply run the the wurst.hotreload command:

• Press F1
• Search for wurst: Hot reload code for a Wurst map started with Jass Hot Code Reload (JHCR) and hit Enter
• Wait until the compilation has finished
• Switch back to the Game and hit ESC to trigger the reload.

Advanced Usage

If you want to use these commands often, you can assign keyboard shortcuts for them in Visual Studio Code.