Re: [Vala] [Genie] GLib Command Parsing

[Nicolas <c r n a wanadoo fr>]

Hi Chris,

Honestly i can't respond to your question, i don't know !
This is a complete sample for what your are trying to do:

[indent=4]

version : bool
const my_options : array of OptionEntry = {{"version", 'V', 0, 
OptionArg.NONE, ref version, "Show application's version", null}, {null}}

class Options : Object

    def run (args : array of string)
        optioncontext : OptionContext
        optioncontext = new OptionContext ("- My program in Genie")
        optioncontext.add_main_entries (my_options, null)
        try
            optioncontext.parse(ref args)
        except e : OptionError
            print (("%s\nRun '%s --help' to see a full list of 
available command line options."), e.message, args[0])

        if version is true
            print "My program version 1.0"

init
    var options = new Options()
    options.run(args)

You can try like this:

./myprog -V (to see version)
./myprog --help (to see available options)
./myprog -B (to see what happen if user use unrecognised options)

Cheers,
Nicolas.

> Ok that works, thanks for the help. Could you explain why I can't 
> define an array of OptionEntry objects in the scope of init?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris