From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.122.70 with SMTP id lq6mr30272212pab.48.1433200335604; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:12:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.21.111 with SMTP id 102mr41065qgk.4.1433200335309; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h15no1809306igd.0!news-out.google.com!4ni138qgh.1!nntp.google.com!z60no5090318qgd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:12:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.53.65.29; posting-account=ShYTIAoAAABytvcS76ZrG9GdaV-nXYKy NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.53.65.29 References: <00836c9e-9ed0-4638-9d0b-0b3cd4e07c65@googlegroups.com> <37731869-bfb2-47b1-b0cf-7e4e806019c1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problems with the "mwindows" switch From: sbelmont700@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:12:15 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26128 Date: 2015-06-01T16:12:15-07:00 List-Id: Admittedly I've never had the need to do so, but whenever I see it happen w= ith other programs it's the other way round; i.e. a GUI (subsystem) app tha= t wants to take command line parameters. VLC Media Player, for instance, n= ormally runs a GUI when you run the executable (parameterless), but also ha= s the ability to take switches to run in an automated, command line fashion= . This makes things like "--help" particularly strange, since a new consol= e opens to display the parameters, and then vanishes when you need to retur= n to the first one to actually type them in. (IMHO two apps with a shared = DLL would have been the better route). -sb