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). 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 -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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