Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 09:46, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > >> No, building it as a MinGW app is fine.
> > >> But it must be run from a CYGWIN=tty shell.
> > >
> > > Oh, ok.  I don't use "tty" myself, so I needed it built as a Cygwin
> > > app. Could it, perhaps, pop up a dialog box instead if stdout is not
> > > available? Is there any way of detecting whether output to stdout
> > > will be seen?
> >
> > Detection is the tricky part. I can't figure out how.
>
> I wouldn't bother with detection. setup.exe is a gui, it's fine for it
> to show help as a gui.
>
> What is needed is this:
> The current libgetopt call to show the parameter help should become a
> convenience call over a lower interface.
>
> That interface should:
> * Provide a const interator to all the options in the optionset.
>
> That will let setup iterate over the options, extracting the help text
> and placing into a GUI text area (or a combobox etc etc).

Hmm, build a const String and pop up a MessageBox?
	Igor

> This is also on my TODO, and why I haven't applied your trivial 'add
> help' option to setup - because it will need to be changed no matter
> what.
>
> Rob

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