Steve Lamont writes:
> To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
>
> > This seems to be a problem. I use the common 'getopt' method
> > to pick application specific options *before* I call fl_initialize():
> >
> > while ( (c = getopt(argc, argv, "b:d:D:hp:s:")) != EOF ) {
> > switch ( c ) {
> > case ...
> > case ...
> > case ...
> > }
> > }
> >
> > After processing this loop no options remain for fl_initialize()
> > and, even worse, XForms options (X11 options) are treated as an
> > error if they are not explicitly mentioned in 'getopt(...)'.
>
> True.
>
> You could, however, add the XForms arguments to your getopt() list.
>
> Perhaps the solution is to use the built in argument parsing provided
> by XForms. IMHO it is superior to getopt()'s rather primitive single
> character flags and it allows you to specify defaults and data types
> in a much more rich vocabulary than the standard getopt(). I've used
> it on some of my more elaborate projects and it works well. I've even
> hacked it to be "self-documenting," so that all the parameter
> definitions, defaults, and explanations of the parameters are
> effectively in one place.
>
> spl
>
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Could you provide a sketch of how you do that ?
Alain
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