Re: is there a g_option_print_usage() command?

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

I remember there was a bug for this somewhere, but I can't seem to
find it in bugzilla anymore. If I recall correctly, there's no easy
way to do this now, but I think the next release might have something.
Try searching bugzilla...
Samuel

On 3/13/07, Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com> wrote:
> James
>
> Thanks for the example.  I think it shows I wasn't clear in my initial
> message because if I run the example (I stripped-out the libnotify stuff
> as it wasn't on my system):
>
> raj tardy:~/netperf4_gobject$ /tmp/example --help
> Usage:
>   example [OPTION...]  - APCUPSD Commandline Notification Utility GPL2
> [2007] <Skoona users sourceforge net>
>
> Help Options:
>   -?, --help                                                Show help
> options
>
> Application Options:
>   -t, --title=Uninterruptible Power Supply                  Title text
> on msg box
>   -m, --message=message                                     Message
> body text
>   -i, --icon-name=gtk-dialog-info ...-warning ...-error     icon to
> include next to message
>   -s, --show-seconds=10                                     seconds to
> display message
>
> raj tardy:~/netperf4_gobject$ /tmp/exmaple --bogus
> -bash: /tmp/exmaple: No such file or directory
> raj tardy:~/netperf4_gobject$ /tmp/example --bogus
>
> ** (example:9372): WARNING **: Parse command line failed: Unknown option
> --bogus
>
> What I am after is some way to display the same text as --help when one
> uses a bogus command-line option.  In other words I don't just want to
> tell them that --bogus is a bogus option, I want to tell them what the
> non-bogus options are.  Since --help already does that, I was looking
> for a call I could make to cause that same text to be emitted - rather
> like one would used to do with a hand-built "usage string."  Now that
> the g_option_mumble stuff is emitting the equivalent to a usage string
> for --help I want to use that rather than build a second one in parallel.
>
> rick jones
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