On 9/22/05 10:07 AM, Jay Vaughan didst favor us with:
>> argc/argv is the API for command-line tools. It is not part of the
>> Mac OS X user model for users to provide parameters when
>> double-clicking applications.
>
> well, if thats the answer, thats the answer .. but i beg to differ
> that argc/argv is an "API for cmd-line tools". it is standard C, and
> I am using standard C with the Carbon API's to get my
> [cross-platform] app working under OSX, but its not the only run
> environment in the universe on which my code must play...
>
and
>> He is probably thinking about analog of possibility found in
>> Windows - ability to set command line args in shortcut (alias).
>> Mike
>> (who still uses CW's "ccommand" from time to time.)
>
> .. well, no .. i'm thinking about how argc/argv has been a standard
> way to pass options into apps, or at least C-based apps, since
> forever, and how it doesn't make any sense that i can use C in
> Apple-land, but not argc/argv, standardly, where i need to.
I think it makes perfect sense. The Mac has never targeted as its primary
market people who would pass command line arguments to applications.
Furthermore, all your ranting about standard C behavior aside, the preferred
language for Mac development in the early days was Pascal, not C.
> i do -not- want to change my args into preferences, just to be
> apple'ized, because my code runs on more than just OSX, but if thats
> the absolute answer from the barrel of technocratic wisdom that is
> the OSX runtime spec, then so ripe and sour be the apples upon which
> i must munch ..
Indeed, the Mac OS is not Windows, which is okay with most of us. ;-) My
only response to comments about what you can do on other platforms but not
on the Mac is that the last time Microsoft had a "switchers" page it
featured an actress Microsoft had hired and a testimonial written by a
professional ad copywriter. ;-)
> can i be sure that there are -no- ways to get argc/argv from a the
> bundle .plist?
I just have no idea about this one.
Larry
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