From b8230cbf43fe9083c199e6f788f58b07f248a4c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aclist <92275929+aclist@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:54:08 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] feat: make symlink to mission path

---
 dzgui/managers/connection.py |  1 +
 dzgui/managers/offline.py    | 14 ++++++++++++--
 dzgui/util/symlink.py        | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dzgui/managers/connection.py b/dzgui/managers/connection.py
index a1aa0a9..d127dab 100644
--- a/dzgui/managers/connection.py
+++ b/dzgui/managers/connection.py
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ class ConnectionManager:
         self.thread_man.show_cancel(False)
         self.thread_man.update_dialog(waiting_for_launch)
         while True:
+            # FIXME: cancel should not be visible here per setting above
             if self.controller.is_cancel_pending():
                 # TODO: some facility to also close spawned steam process
                 return
diff --git a/dzgui/managers/offline.py b/dzgui/managers/offline.py
index 99efca7..b4ab039 100644
--- a/dzgui/managers/offline.py
+++ b/dzgui/managers/offline.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import time
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable, TYPE_CHECKING, Union
 
@@ -7,10 +8,11 @@ from dzgui.api.mods import is_mission, get_custom_mods
 from dzgui.api.steam import launch_offline
 from dzgui.const.constants import APP_NAME, APPID_DAYZ_EXP
 from dzgui.const.enum import Preferences
+from dzgui.init.proc import is_dayz_running
 from dzgui.managers.threading import call_on_thread, StoredFunc, ThreadingManager
 from dzgui.model.model_factory import ModelFactory
 from dzgui.strings import dialogs
-from dzgui.util.symlink import create_custom_symlinks
+from dzgui.util.symlink import create_custom_symlinks, symlink_mission
 from dzgui.views.dialogs.filepicker import FolderPicker
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -92,7 +94,15 @@ class OfflineManager:
                 Path(steam_path), Path(custom_folder), custom_mods
             )
             combined_mods.extend(new_symlinks)
-        launch_offline(client, appid, name, combined_mods, mission)
+
+        if len(mission) > 0:
+            relative_link = symlink_mission(Path(steam_path), mission)
+
+        launch_offline(client, appid, name, combined_mods, relative_link)
+        while True:
+            if is_dayz_running():
+                break
+            time.sleep(1)
 
     def open_folderpicker(self, title: str) -> Union["Path", None]:
         picker = FolderPicker(self.controller.get_window(), title)
diff --git a/dzgui/util/symlink.py b/dzgui/util/symlink.py
index 7d21539..715131a 100644
--- a/dzgui/util/symlink.py
+++ b/dzgui/util/symlink.py
@@ -49,6 +49,17 @@ def create_custom_symlinks(
     clone_symlinks(steam_path)
     return links
 
+def symlink_mission(steam_path: Path, target: str) -> None:
+    dayz_path = PeFile.get_nested_app_path(steam_path, APPID_DAYZ)
+    for file in dayz_path.iterdir():
+        if file.is_symlink() and str(file.stem)[:2] == "@C":
+            file.unlink()
+    stem = Path(target).name
+    suffix = _hash(stem, use_custom=True)
+    source = dayz_path.joinpath(suffix)
+    source.symlink_to(Path(target))
+    return suffix
+
 
 def clone_symlinks(steam_path: Path) -> None:
     """