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One other thought is to add the Tcl script as a button to the GUI. It's pretty easy. Tools -> Customize -> Toolbars and add the Tcl toolbar. Then Tools -> Tcl and you can link a Tcl button to a particular script. Still a manual step at the end, but not too bad.
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To give you an idea of what I am using this for, I have the tcl script look for a node in the post-fitting system to see which out of two VHDL files was compiled. The advantages of this are:
- I can share all Quartus settings, timing constraints and SOPC files
- I won't have to duplicate all of the above and keep them in sync
- HDL designer, which I am using to produce the VHDL, is the only place I need to deal with which configuration I am building
- there is no risk of people thinking a .sof file was built from one design while it was really built from another
I'll consider the button if I cannot find another solution and people really want to use smart compilation. Thanks for the suggestion.
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