Re: gtk_init() command-line args

[rbd <rbd soest hawaii edu>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks very much for the reference! Looks like all of the arguments of 
interest to gtk begin with '--', so anything beginning with only a single 
'-' ought to be safe from gtk_init() harvesting.

Roger

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Michael Gratton wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 7:34 AM, rbd <rbd soest hawaii edu> wrote:
> > Can someone point me to an official gtk3 documentation source which clearly 
> > lists all of the command-line arguments parsed and then stripped from 
> > argv[] by gtk_init()?
>
> The "Running and debugging GTK+ Applications" document is the only thing I 
> know of: <https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-running.html>. They are 
> mostly debugging and legacy X11 workarounds, it seems. There are also similar 
> docs for GLib and GIO, but those don't mess with your argv, AFAIK.
>
> Of course, you really should be using G[tk]Application, which will call this 
> for you, and aso provides a structured way of handing command line arg 
> parsing. ;) Especially since that (IIRC) the plan for GTK+4 is to remove all 
> GTK-specific command line args anyway.
>
> //Mike
>
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