I restart Studio often for various reasons, which include developing plugins, ending the lag that builds up from hitting Play so often, changing some settings, etc.
Right now restarting Studio involves hitting “Open,” selecting my current file and then closing my Studio window while the new one opens. A button that I can stick in my quick-access bar which reopens the currently opened file would be great.
I would think it would be a higher priority for roblox to fix the issues that make you need to restart studio, than to make it easier for you to restart studio
I have this same issue with my game, some people have issues with the camera breaking, and instead, I try to get them to explain to me how it breaks, but all they do is push that I need to make it easier to reset the camera script, you’re looking at it from the wrong angle, I believe.
Only one of the reasons I mentioned was a bug with Studio, the others are intended behavior.
Only reason I would need this is because, one, ROBLOX’s animator just needs a shit ton of work and I need to restart it from time to time to actually make it work. Two, after using ROBLOX Studio for a time, it gets slow and unresponsive. i.e. it takes a second to select an object in the explorer. This typically happens when you test a lot, I don’t know it’s bad garbage collection or remnants, or what.
Or just click File and select your file from the Recent Files section. That’s why it is there.
Either keep your file more convenient on your drive or use the recent files to load your recent project.
Or they could actually fix the studio problem seeing as it’s been around for over three months.
Or you could actually read the thread and realise that only one of the reasons listed were to do with a bug.
I agree with the restart button. It’s a pain when working with settings and plugins, and also when you get a bug which you can’t seem to reproduce, to restart studio manually - even with the Recent Files list. Also, since when Studio updates you get a different executable, you can’t just ‘pin’ it to the start bar or something and have your files. It’s just really annoying.
Native plugin development is just bad in general. You should be using Hotswap to develop plugins – it enables you to run plugins in a test environment without having to publish/install the plugin and consequently restart studio. Most of the settings you’ll be changing more often than others already change without requiring you to restart studio. The script editor colors/font, camera speed, hover over/select colors, primary part highlight settings, and even ShowDecompositionGeometry all update without a studio restart (even though they will misleadingly tell you otherwise).
You shouldn’t be needing to change any of the other settings on a frequent basis, so with the selection lag fixed and using hotswap to develop plugins there is no reason to restart studio on a frequent basis, and no need for a feature to do that. Constantly needing to restart a program is a sign of bad software practices – those bad software practices should be resolved so you don’t have to restart studio in the first place.
They still haven’t fixed that? 
They have a lot of work to do in regards to the launching of studio. You can resolve this fairly easily though. Pin this VBScript to the taskbar (change ProgramFiles\Roblox to Appdata\Roblox if you have it installed there) and change the icon of the pinned shortcut to studio’s icon and it’ll launch studio regardless of how many times you install it. How to pin a VBScript to the taskbar
They still haven’t fixed that? They have a lot of work to do in regards to the launching of studio. You can resolve this fairly easily though. Pin this VBScript to the taskbar (change ProgramFiles\Roblox to Appdata\Roblox if you have it installed there) and change the icon of the pinned shortcut to studio’s icon and it’ll launch studio regardless of how many times you install it. How to pin a VBScript to the taskbar[/quote]
That’s what RobloxStudioLauncherBeta.exe is for.
By default pinning indeed pins the wrong executable; you can probably drag the shortcut from the desktop to the task bar though? Not sure if there’s an API for us to specify the right .exe to pin.
@zeuxcg: RobloxStudioLauncherBeta.exe re-updates studio every time it’s launched even if it already is updated. You guys should just name the folders “ROBLOX Studio”, “ROBLOX Player”, etc so the place the shortcut points to always exists. I don’t see the benefit of naming them some sort of version name for the public.
